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Double bill of US film thrillers. Kiefer Sutherland stars in the supernatural tale, 'Mirrors' (2007), as Ben Carson, an ex-cop who quit his job owing to post-traumatic stress syndrome and now works as a night security guard at an old department store that was burned out in a fire. Soon after starting the job, Ben sees horrific images in the store's many mirrors; weird spirits that seem intent on pursuing him and his estranged family and watching them through the medium of any nearby reflective surface. Can Ben discover the origin of these evil spirits - and reveal the story they are trying to tell - in time to save himself and those he loves? In end-of-the-world thriller 'The Happening' (2008), a science teacher and his family try to outrun a neurotoxin sweeping the country. Lecturing his students about the mass disappearance of bees, teacher Elliot Moore (Mark Wahlberg) is informed that a wave of mass suicides is occurring across the country, initially believed to be some form of biological terrorist attack. Deciding to leave town by train with his wife, Alma (Zooey Deschanel), fellow teacher Julian (John Leguizamo) and Julian's daughter, Jess (Ashlyn Sanchez), the train comes to a halt before its final destination when the crew loses contact with the outside world. As the full enormity of the situation sinks in, the little information available from news reports suggests that the rapidly spreading neurotoxin is emanating from plants, and being spread on the wind. As the suicide pandemic reaches ever smaller population centres, Elliot, Alma and Jess have to fend for themselves, desperately seeking shelter from the approaching storm.

Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play MIRRORSAfter SWITCHBLADE ROMANCE and THE HILLS HAVE EYES French director Alexandre Aja stays firmly grounded in horror territory with MIRRORS In this reimagining of a Japanese horror film Kiefer Sutherland plays an ex-cop whose home is invaded by spirits via its mirrors THE HAPPENINGIn THE HAPPENING M Night Shyamalan serves up a slice of apocalyptic strangeness The film opens onto New York City&39;s Central Park with a crowd of people enjoying an idyllic summer day The carefree scene soon takes a terrifying turn when out of nowhere hordes of people begin to commit suicide en masse People scramble to make sense of the pandemonium and many believe it is a terrorist attack It appears that some sort of deadly toxin is being released into the air Cut to Elliot (Mark Wahlberg) a science teacher in Philadelphia When he learns of the attack on New York he meets up with his wife Alma (Zooey Deschanel) his friend Julian (John Leguizamo) and Julians&39;s daughter Jess (Ashlyn Sanchez) They make plans to get out of the city via train but the train is evacuated in the middle of a small Pennsylvania town When they learn that the mysterious toxin is spreading its way across the Northeast they break up into groups with Elliot Alma and Jess running through open farmland in search of safety They are unsure of where to hide or what exactly they are hiding from until Elliot slowly forms a theory about the threat He fights to keep Alma and Jess free from harm and the film builds to a bizarre unsettling climax Shyamalan&39;s premise of escaping an unknown unexplainable attack is a timely one and is quite chilling in concept THE HAPPENING succeeds in creating the frenzied scariness of THE BIRDS combined with the outlandish death scenes and unusual plot line found in B-movie classics For fans of campy horror in the vein of THE EVIL DEAD it is truly something to behold Actors Amy Smart Kiefer Sutherland Mark Wahlberg Zooey Deschanel John Leguizamo Paula Patton Jason Flemyng Julian Glover Ezra Buzzington John Shrapnel Spencer Breslin Betty Buckley Frank Collison Victoria Clark & Jeremy StrongDirector Alexandre Aja & M Night ShyamalanCertificate 18 years and overYear 2008Screen Widescreen 2351 AnamorphicLanguages English - Dolby Digital (51)