Reflections
by CBBThis is a drastic fanedit of the movie MIRRORS. About one third of the movie has been removed for a much more intense horror ride. Especially the lame family horror finale is gone completely. Get ready to be scared.
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(26 votes, average: 9.04 out of 10, rated)
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original film name: Mirrors
new film name : Reflections
film studio name : Fox
edit crew name : CBB
Date Original Film Was Released : 2008
Date Edit Was Released : February, 2009
Original Runtime : 112 min
New Runtime : 88 min
Amount of time Cut/Added : 24 minutes cut
Fanedit details:
Mirrors is a very clichéd horror movie that kind of destroys itself right from the start and continues with inconsistencies and scenes that are meant to be scary, but are not. The original feels like a mixup of a lot of things we have seen before – hundreds of times. Yet it still had some great ideas, a good cast and good special effects, which could be used to turn it into a way more believable and much less over-the-top horror movie. The pacing has been improved and the finale will be a completely new experience, because the climax has been moved. The fanedit comes in all different coloring for a colder and clearer tone.
The changes:
- - recolored the movie (blue +40%, desaturated 30%) to get rid of the yellow tinting.
- - removed beginning (reason: it was a too typical horror movie beginning and actually not scary, it destroyed the tension from the very start about the mirrors)
- - replaced beginning credits with my own (although interestingly done, it again spoiled the tension and the score was over dramatic)
- - cut door closing (the mirrors should not be able to do that – telekinesis was never mentioned)
- - cut Ben Carson (Kiefer) on fire (the CGI fire did not look too good and the scene was too much anyway)
- - cut Ben’s reference to the burning (now he’s just talking about the weird images)
- - cut Ben explaining the magic of the mirrors to Amy (his ex-wife) (it is totally unbelievable and Ben is still sane enough to know that his wife is of all persons the wrongest one to tell that)
- - cut screaming without looking in a mirror scene (the mirrors can only cause an audio sound, when someone looks in them)
- - cut mirror Ben shooting at Ben in the mirror room (too much effect that destroys the scene for me. The demon wants Ben to do something, it would not try killing him)
- - cut Ben’s “dammit”, when he is left alone with Anne Esseker’s file in the car (he actually should be happy he finally has some results. This was overacting IMO.)
- - cut some of the goodbye scene of Ben and his family (dragging because too much cliché)
- - cut Ben saying “my family won’t die tonight” to Anna (because nothing is happening to Ben’s family in my cut)
- - removed all the mirror horror that happens to Ben’s family (especially the drowning of Michael in the wooden floor was really not working well, because the rules of the mirror reality were bent too much there)
- - cut over-the-top parts from first Anna fight (mainly the ones where she is doing impossible moves)
- - cut over-the-top parts from second Anna fight (dragging Ben too long, spiderwalk, tongue and where she inflicts deadly damage)
- - cut third Anna fight entirely (dead is dead is dead)
- - removed Ben’s family happy ending
Teaser Trailer: http://www.vimeo.com/3253146
DVD DETAILS
88 minutes Single Layer NTSC 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen with AC3-5.1 audio
LANGUAGE : ENGLISH (5.1)
SUBTITLES : ENGLISH (selectable)
MENUS : animated with sound
SCENE SELECTION : yes
EXTRAS: Deleted Scenes (a selection of the most interesting deleted scenes: approximately 30 minutes)
Those Darn Mirrors (an extra about the impact of villains in this horror movie: 9 minutes)
Teaser (1 minute)
CBB Overview for all 33 fanedits
COVER&Disc ART : yes, on DVD-Rom part
xvid avi details:
700mb, xvid avi, 672 x 288, 23.976 fps, 985 kbps, MPEG-1 Layer 3 114 kb/s , Joint Stereo
Fanedit history and making:
Right ahead after watching the original I knew that this was not just a bad horror movie, but that I wanted to do something with it, create a fanedit from it to make it more consistent and scarier – and maybe even worth watching.
My first idea was to delete the first night watchman beginning and the mirror world ending and the most offensive (if not stupid) parts of the family horror finale. In the end and after 7 drafts it got a whole more and quite different to that. The first night watchman is still gone, but anything else is so different now, lots of little cuts to help either the pacing or the plot and especially to remove the head shaking moments that I endured, when I watched it and could not believe what was presented to me.
Draft 6 was almost a complete one, but then I created the special feature about the credibility of a villain and came to the result that my edit needed to be more drastic, which resulted in another 3 minutes gone. The hardest part was the Anna demon fight, because it took so long and yet was never really thrilling or scary to watch. This fight turned out to be quite short now, but very effective in its new presentation.
There is an unrated version of this movie available which contains most of all a longer “rubber chin” scene. The scene is in the original already quite disgusting, so I decided to not make it longer, as this did not add anything to it.
The creation of this fanedit was quite a tough one, because the image in 23.976 gave me a hard time through interlacing issues, which when deinterlaced resulted in flickers, stutters and jumps. The final version is not 100% perfect, but the best I could come up with for all the many ways I tried.
Hardware and software information:
Hardware:
Windows XP computer
with an AMD phenom 940 quadcore cpu
and 4 GB of RAM on an ASUS board
Software:
- Ulead Media Studio Pro 8.0
- Vegas Video 7.0
- Cinema Craft Encoder
- Virtual Dub
- Adobe Audition 1.5
- Pro Show Producer
- Jasc Paint Shop Pro
- PhotoZoom Pro2
- DVD Lab Pro 1.52
- Cyberlink Power DVD
- Irfan View
- PGCDemux
- AnyDVD
- DGPulldown
- TMPGxpress
- ffmepggui
- Auto GK
Time needed for the edition:
editing: 8 days, extras: 3 days, DVD menus: 2 days, quality checking and further corrections: 3 days.
persons involved: boon
Awards:
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Images:
cover art by boon23 (download here):
cover art by AvP (DOWNLOAD HERE):
color comparison screenshot:
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I just finished this movie, and I havent been so ingrossed in a good old fashioned spook story in a long time. This is also my first movie Ive seen by fanedits and if the quality is as good as this I think Ill be stopping by to watch the redits more often, well done.
Review by breaper — February 21, 2009 @ 6:08 am
thanks a lot for watching, commenting and rating this so soon. I am very happy, you enjoyed this.
Review by boon23 — February 21, 2009 @ 1:53 pm
Hi there boon, nice ideas for this fan edit, i’ll definitely have to give Reflections a watch once my download limit resets.
Just an opinion about the bit where Ben gets burnt by the mirror, I think maybe the fire trick on Ben was suppose to represent the demonic energy or powers the mirrors hold that Ben is yet to find out about, possibly thats a reason why the mirrors have the ability to burn someone.
Review by el_paso — February 21, 2009 @ 11:22 pm
Yes, the “Ben burning” scene was meant to show the demonic power of the mirrors and this would have been great, if it was better pulled off. The CGI fire did not look too good and although Kiefer did a good performance, the scene was rather embarrassing, when all he had to obviously do was NOT to look in the mirror. Also it was the only time, when the mirrors caused physical pain without leaving “real” traces. In the other scenes, when damage happens (like cuts) they stay in reality (exception is the scene, when Mirror-Ben shoots at Ben, but that was also removed, because it did not even cause any damage at all and was just a little unneeded and unbelievable shock effect).
Review by boon23 — February 21, 2009 @ 11:47 pm
I am looking forward to watching this.
Review by dop — February 26, 2009 @ 2:41 pm
Tried watching it last night, scared the crap out of me, finished watching it this afternoon. I never bothered watching the original, so I can’t say if it’s better. All I can say is that this is a pretty intence and scary movie that I loved. Can’t wait to watch it with my friends, some have seen the original and warned me to stay away from it, so I’m curious what their opinion would be about this version. I can’t find a flaw in this edit. The story was making sence, the pacing was good, the technical stuff was flawless. All and all it’s the best edit I’ve seen so far. Oh, and I havn’t seen many but I have a feeling that would change. 10/10
Review by Relentless_666 — March 2, 2009 @ 4:37 pm
Boon’s hand is delicately unseen (again) in his most recent edit “Reflections” a fanedit of 2008’s “Mirrors”.
I thought the original film was a cliched stinker and there isn’t alot of improvement here but thats no fault of the editor. Boon has managed to greatly increase the mystery of what is going on through the removal of many scenes that gave away too much, were unnecessary or were just plain stupid. Trouble is, its hard to care when the Wife is a bitch and the villain is lame…
We now have a better version of the film which is more interesting and more suspenseful than the original, but its still not really a “good” movie. Reflections is average horror at best – except for the ending, I really liked the ending.
On the technical side its another great looking fanedit with top notch audio and a nice DVD menu w/ deleted scenes and a fun featurette dissecting the films villain.
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Audio/Video – 10/10 looks and sounds great, color correction was a nice touch.
Editing – 10/10 the editor is invisible.
Entertainment – 6/10 while better than the original (which I would rank a 3/10), this is still a weak film and no amount of editing skill will change that. Boon has done some nice turd polishing here and his skill and efforts are to be commended.
8.6 (rounded up to a 9) /10
Review by elbarto1 — March 3, 2009 @ 12:03 am
Had to wait a while to watch this, as my harddrive crashed, but managed to save just about everything on a new drive. Its now a very watchable movie, I honestly never thought that I would ever watch it again
well done Boon, and love that new colour, looks much better easier on the eyes. 10/10 for audio and seemless video. Great Job.
Review by searcher — March 5, 2009 @ 11:58 pm
Incredibly better. My girlfriend was terrified. Cool extras on the DVD. Gotta love fanedits.
Review by berks — March 6, 2009 @ 7:14 pm
Another great example of Boon applying the ‘deft touch’. The suspense was kept up for the entire movie, as it revealed a little more at each scene. Watching the special features and the scenes that were cut, I have to agree the movie worked better with the build up from suspense to horror to detective, instead of opening with horror, moving to suspense, continuing with the horror and changing to detective… Nice one Boon!… AVP cover is cool as well!
Review by heavyg — March 9, 2009 @ 1:10 pm
Incredible edit. After watching it, I had to wonder why Mirrors is barely heard about.
It’s been awhile since a movie made me even a little bit scared but this really got me excited!
After watching the deleted scenes, I can see how the original leaves the audience unsatisfied.
This is a new favourite film of mine.
Thanks for your hard work, boon!
10/10
Review by zeppelinrox — March 16, 2009 @ 2:14 am
This is good work, and I’m happy to say: better than the original. It’s amazing really that movies of this caliber are released at all.
Nicely done, and it looks like this will be the fanedit contest winner this month
Weighing between a 8 and 9 rating.
Review by spelledaren — March 17, 2009 @ 8:23 pm
I just wanted to say that i loved what you did with this edit of Mirrors. I really like the fact you trimed down the ending
and made it so, “not” over the top. It was great. I myself have a fear of mirrors, always have since i was a kid. I waas looking forward to
seeing this movie when it came out, but was dissapointed with the final result. But, i still went out and got me a copy of it.
Mainly for the spookiness of the mirrors. But, now i have a version of the film that is fast paced and straight to the point. Again, Boon
you did a wonderful job. Thank you for all your hard work.
Review by donniex — April 3, 2009 @ 4:43 pm
Well, I was prepared to write a detailed review of this, but I see El Barto has pretty much done it for me! I agree with all of his points about the edit. In summation: Semi-entertaining but still flawed thriller with a few really cool moments and an improved ending, technically solid edit.
Knowing the elements Boon has removed here it is a no-brainer that this is better than the original by far. Recommended as a late night watch.
Review by jokersmailbag — April 8, 2009 @ 8:01 pm
Technically, the edit is very smooth, and I really enjoyed your opening and ending credits.
I have not seen the original flick, but overall, I didn’t feel like there was a lot of stuff missing. I was only surprised at the middle of the movie after the jaw scene when Ben suddenly knew the mirros were evil. The scene with the kid was also a bit short, but overall, it’s a great edit (I only wish I had been just a little bit scared) ! Congrats, and keep them coming !
Review by bud — April 19, 2009 @ 12:25 am
This edit worked really well for me. I had not seen the original, and didn’t feel I was missing anything (which made it enjoyable afterward to read about all the stuff that was cut). The only thing I would have done different (or at least would have tried), would be to tone down his sister’s violent death. As it was, with so little violence in the rest of the movie, it felt particularly shocking and out of place for me. But I realize that I watch scary movies for different reasons than other people, and I’m probably alone in complaining about too much violence.
Review by CasmirRadon — August 31, 2009 @ 12:06 am
What an improvement! My favorite CBB fanedit. Thank you so much for this fine horror movie. Kiefer rocks!
Review by r8s8fr8 — November 27, 2009 @ 8:33 pm
A solid improvement over the original yet the source material still retains its disadvantages. The editing is faultless, as is the sound design but I feel some more poorly acted scenes could have been removed such as the cliched and poorly acted/directed opening argument with the estranged wife. Removing this scene and cutting directly to Ben’s first night as a security guard would have added to the isolation and loneliness of the main character.
All the other scenes removed are done so for good reason. There is a cool extra called “Those Darn Mirrors” that breaks down the faults in logic of the original version. I also liked the colour correction, which brings a much needed coldness (and crispness) to the image. 8/10
Review by Rock Savage — January 21, 2010 @ 12:57 pm
This was fantastic! An incredible achievement over the lame original.
Review by Carrigan — February 4, 2010 @ 10:57 am
Fully agree with Carrigan, I found the edit it to be very ’spooky’…..Pobably changed my pants at least twice:-)
Review by chancer127 — February 6, 2010 @ 1:30 pm
Can’t say anything that hasn’t been said before. Best horror movie ever with Kiefer: now.
What I liked best about it is the new ending without the family and the toned down Anna fight. It was short, but frightening and thrilling. My g’friend loved it. So I loved it.
And from watching one would never guess this was ever tempered with. You are a magician.
Review by walls83 — February 11, 2010 @ 2:45 pm