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31 Days of Horror Day 23 Mirror,Mirror

Title-Mirror,Mirror
Source-DVD rip on Youtube

I got the Anchor Bay DVD of this, I think it is a boxed set of all 3 or 4 films from this forgotten 90s possession franchise. But it is packed up,so I found a rip on Youtube.

Give a tiny theatrical release Mirror,Mirror was a minor cult horror hit thanks to VHS and it airing fairly often on various cable movie channels.  I first saw it in early 91 on Showtime.

Megan,played by Rainbow Harvest, has recently lost her father . Then her mother moves them from Los Angeles to some rural town. Megan looks like a bad clone of Wynona Ryder in Beetlejuice. She gets picked  on and then get possessed and gains powers from a evil mirror. So kind of a goth chick Carrie.

Megan's lead tormentor is genre vet Charlie Spradling. A stunning brunette,who did lots of work for Full Moon and Roger Corman. Imagine a just a talented Kari Wuher.  But instead didn't know the right people so got stuck in the early 90s DTV Horror Scream Queen.

The always entertaining Karen Black plays Megan's mother. She was in a slew of 90s b horrors. Plus the great William Sanderson has a decent sized role.

Honestly this isn't worth paying what the out of print DVD sells for. But as a free view off YouTube it wasn't bad.

Mirror,Mirror gets a C.