Line #10 Film/MirrorMirror1990


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3	''Mirror Mirror'' is a 1990 American supernatural horror film directed by Marina Sargenti, based on a screenplay by Annette Cascone and Gina Cascone. It stars Creator/KarenBlack, Rainbow Harvest, Creator/YvonneDeCarlo and Creator/WilliamSanderson.
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5	Shy teenager Megan moves to a new town with her widowed mother and quickly becomes the most unpopular girl in high school. But when she starts to communicate with a mysterious mirror, her tormentors begin to meet with a horrifying series of 'accidents'. Is the mirror a reflection of Megan's own inner demons... or has she unwittingly opened the doorway of the damned?
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7	Followed by two sequels, the first of which gave Creator/MarkRuffalo his film debut.
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9	!!Tropes Tropes:
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11	* AlphaBitch: Charleen, a bully running for class president, quickly targets Megan when she starts at her new high school.
12	* AutoErotica: Charleen and Jeff start are making out in Jeff's car, and Charleen starts to to give him a blowjob before Jeff stops her--as a result of Megan's magic-- and leaves in search of Megan.
13	* BathroomStallOfOverheardInsults: BetaBitch Kim is in a toilet stall when she overhears Megan confessing to the 'murder-by-magic' of AlphaBitch Charleen. This ends badly for Kim.
14	* BetaBitch: Kim is this to Charleen, and becomes Megan's next victim after she has dealt with Charleen.
15	* BloodIsSquickerInWater: After [[DeadlyBath drowning Ron in the bath]], Nikki's doppelganger bites a chunk of flesh out his chin. The wound turns the water in the tub pink.
16	* TheCorruptor: The demon in the mirror grants wishes to its owner that gradually cause the owner to slide into evil.
17	* DeadlyBath: Megan harnesses the mirror's powers to scald Charleen to death in the girls' locker room showers. Later, a doppelganger of Nikki drowns Ron in the bathtub in Nikki's house.
18	* DistantPrologue: Opens with a scene in 1950s Iowa where Mary Weatherford sacrifices her sister Elizabeth in front of a large mirror, stabbing her to death on a bed. The movie then cuts to 1990 with Susan and Megan Gordon moving into the house.
19	* DoubleDoubleTitle
20	* EvilDetectingDog: Susan's dogs are able to sense that there is something wrong about the antique mirror: barking and whining outside the bedroom when its powers start to manifest. [[ItsProbablyNothing Susan dismisses it.]]
21	* {{Fingore}}: The mirror causes Susan's [[HandInTheHole hand to be caught in the garbage disposal]]. Her hand is ground off at the wrist and she bleeds to death.
22	* FanDisservice: Buxom AlphaBitch Charleen's shower scene is ''not'' remotely played for titillation, even discounting [[DeadlyBath what happens during it]].
23	* FliesEqualsEvil: One of the first signs of the the mirror's evil nature is a large number of flies congregating on its surface when Megan is upset about her mother flirting with Mr. Veze. One of the flies lands in Veze's food, causing him to choke.
24	* {{Goth}}: Megan is a goth girl from Los Angles who has just moved to Iowa and her fashion choices make her an immediate for the AlphaBitch of her new school.
25	* GothGirlsKnowMagic: After several unexplained events Megan becomes convinced that the mirror in her bedroom possesses magic powers. Megan begins harnessing them herself, using them to manipulate Jeff into developing a crush on her, and then to kill Charleen [[DeadlyBath in the girls' showers]].
26	* HandInTheHole: The garbage disposal is playing up and Susan turns it off and reaches in to try to clear it. After a few tense moments, she pulls at the rag that was jamming it and it starts functioning normally. However, a few minutes later, the mirror causes it to malfunction again, and this time when she reaches into it, the mirror switches it back on; [[{{Fingore}} grinding her hand off]].
27	* HauntedHouseHistorian: Emelin, the auctioneer in charge of the house clearance, becomes this regarding the Weatherford House after she finds a cache of journals that describe the mirror's apparent possession by a demonic force able to grant wishes while clearing the house. She is the one who provides the information on the demon and how to defeat it to Nikki.
28	* HumanSacrifice: In 1950s Iowa, Mary Weatherford sacrifices her sister Elizabeth in front of a large mirror, stabbing her to death on a bed.
29	* MirrorMonster: The mirror contains a demonic entity able to grant wishes. And occasionally it will reach out and inflict a more physical punishment on someone in the real world.
30	* PickedLast: As part of her ostracization, Megan is picked last, and very reluctantly, by AlphaBitch Charleen when the water polo teams are picked in gym class.
31	* ResetButton: After [[spoiler:Megan sacrifices herself to the mirror to stop it]], Nikki begs the mirror to restore things back to how they were before. The mirror does this by [[spoiler:creating a StableTimeLoop by sending Nikki and Megan back in time to take the place of Mary and Elizabeth Waterford]].
32	* SatiatingSandwich: Nikki's boyfriend Ron considers himself a mastery of the 'culinary arts', devoted to making sandwiches. He even narrates making his sandwiches like a sports commentator.
33	* SealedEvilInACan: Mary Weatherford sealed the demon inside the mirror by sacrificing her sister Elizabeth and then covering the mirror with a black cloth. Emelin and Mrs. Perlili unknowingly free the demon to start acting on the mortal world again when they find the mirror inside a sealed closet 40 years later and pull the cloth off.
34	* StableTimeLoop: The ending implies that Nikki creates one when she begs the mirror [[ResetButton to restore things back to how they were before]], with Nikki and Megan [[spoiler:being sent back in time to take the places of Mary and Elizabeth Waterford]].
35	* TongueTrauma: After murdering Kim in the bathroom, Megan cuts her tongue out with a shard of broken mirror.
36	* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Emelin and Mrs. Perlili unknowingly release the SealedEvilInACan when they break into the sealed closet and remove the black cloth from the mirror while cleaning out the Weatherford house so the new occupants can move in.
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Context Film / MirrorMirror1990