This Karen Black-starring horror "classic" is legitimately baffling to me. It was put out by some company called Orphan Eye (who subsequently put out the 3 sequels) and the score was available on Orphan Records, apparently. The movie is about a goth girl (played by Rainbow Harvest - real name) who moves into a new house/town/high school and finds a haunted mirror in her room. The mirror gives her magic revenge powers and the movie takes on a real "Teen Witch meets horror movie" vibe. The characters are really interesting somehow and the high school drama scenes are great! Possibly due to the majority of the screenwriters being women(?) as well as the director. Unfortunately, the movie just falls apart at the production level. Karen Black's hair changes a few times without explanation, special fx scenes are wildly inconsistent, even from shot to shot. There's a scene where it's "windy" and some stage hand just whips, I think it's a spatula? at the wall. I won't spoil it because I don't know how but the ending just... Man, I don't know.
Apparently the sequels are worse.
When it was released to home video, it had a holographic vhs box. Who paid for this? Mirror Mirror 2's VHS box had a lenticular cover.
Mirror MIrror 3 features a young Mark Ruffalo as a pervert, I think.
What I want to know is, what happened? It really seems like the script may have been coherent at one time but who are Orphan Eye? What happened to the budget somewhere in the middle of filming? What happened at the end? Why is Stephen Tobolowsky in this?
Seriously, How Did This Get Made?
