Mirrors: seemingly innocent inanimate objects used by millions of people everyday. Despite old wives’ tales about souls being sucked into the glass after death, they certainly don’t have any connection to the supernatural. Until now, that is. Meet the Lasser Glass, a mirror with a slight tendency to cause parents to go psycho and kill their loved ones.

Siblings Kaylie and Tim Russell are two such victims of the mirror’s supernatural powers. When they were kids, their father slowly went mad after buying the mirror, until one night he shot their mother and attempted to kill the two children before ending his own life – cracking the mirror in the process. Upon police arrival, Kaylie was sent into the foster system, while Tim was sent to a mental hospital to deal with the trauma he experienced.

Ten years later, Tim has been released, Kaylie has tracked down the murderous mirror, and the siblings are ready to prove that their father was just a poor soul tricked by mirror-induced hallucinations. Throughout the film, scenes bounce between the Russells’ dramatic last days together and the siblings’ filming the mirror in the present day. Unfortunately, the Lasser Glass is up to its old tricks, and by creating enough illusions to make even the most sane person want to put on a strait jacket, the duo are soon left floundering in an attempt to discern the difference between reality, memory, and hallucination. Even the audience has trouble telling fact from fiction when Kaylie bites into an apple but looks down to see she’s holding a broken lightbulb in her hand, leaving everyone to wonder what she really ate.

Over the duration of the film, viewers are subjected to the horrors and hallucinations the outwardly harmless mirror can produce, and I for one have grown rather wary of ornate antique mirrors as a result. This film is definitely recommended to those brave enough to endure the twists and turns – as long as they can keep up with Lasser Glass and not be tricked by its illusions.