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"Mirrors" is a supernatural horror story, a classic ghost haunting. The thing that this reminded me closest to is like a Doctor Who episode. A colorful cast of diverse characters, dealing with a power greater than them, reality ceasing to make sense, and getting picked off one by one as hope is extinguished. A pretty good experience for those that are into watching and enjoying tragedy, the first chase sequence with Vic actually got me pretty good, the tension was really well placed with the audio stings. I will say, that the lack of agency that the characters had, and once the revelation that the characters had no chance, it became just morbid curiosity as to how the characters are done in. Its a little disappointing that there wasn't more to the ghost than what was presented, I was hoping it would be like a metaphor for something. By the end of the story, it was hard to continue caring about the characters when the horror is a bit too surface level and isn't all that fun. Like, what makes this kind of horror story fun is at least an illusion of being able to fight back, but this story just avoids any of that in the second act, preferring to indulge in the depressing tragedy of it all. The shift in chapters to the different points of view made it easy to follow who is experiencing what, but only so far as a third person perspective, as even when we get into their head spaces, there's hardly much revealed from it to add to the story. Overall, I think that there's the horror chops in here to make an effective scary experience, but it needs a bit more thought put into the character arcs to give it a bit more depth.