MIRROR, MIRROR
The lamest motivation I've ever had for watching a movie
I confess. I only rented this movie because the chick from Mr. Belvedere's in the sequel, and she probably gets naked, and I didn't want to feel completely left out when watching it, waiting for her to doff her duds, only to be disappointed.
It looks like D-grade straight-to-video schlock, and make no mistake, it's mostly middling, but it's not bad. Wynona Ryder lookalike Rainbow Harvest (swear to God, that's her name) stars as an awkward teenager who moves into a new town, a new home with her mom, is tormented by some classmates, and, oh, has a demon living in the mirror in the house. Well, she doesn't know that. She befriends Nikki, played by Janie from that "Janie's Got A Gun" video.
Imagine my delight when I saw that Nikki's rival in the race for school president (check out this chick's campaign video - fucking brilliant) is none other than Charlie Spradling and her awe-inspiring breasts. Here, for some reason, she's credited merely as Charlie, and I think this is pre-nosejob. Needless to say, Charlie's a bitch, and it's only a matter of time until nasty shit starts happening.
Rainbow (man, that name) does an okay job as the shy girl, although it doesn't help that she's dressed up in this getup for the first half of the movie that's supposed to be goth but makes her look a lot like Boy George. Janie's okay, and Charlie's breasts are worth the rental alone, as always. (really, I'm not usually this much of a pig. Charlie's breasts just have that effect on me.) Karen Black plays Rainbow's mom, and participates in one of the more excruciating "hand in garborator" scenes I've witnessed.
Marginally interesting, occasionally amusing, sometimes icky. Nothing too special, nothing too bad either. Miles ahead of what the tacky packaging suggests, however.