Short Film: The Mirror (2024)

• By Hamridreza Haidan, Ramin Abdollah
• Run Time: 3:27
• Watch it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9Srzt6kZuI

What Happens

A man finds a locked door, but when he opens it, he finds a filthy old antique mirror inside. He cleans it up and it doesn’t look so bad anymore. 

When he looks into the mirror, he notices a smudge on the glass. He also sees that he’s cut himself on the forehead. He patches himself up but then sees more marks on the mirror– and suddenly wounds on his hands. 

How far will this go?

Commentary

You’d think he would have simply gotten rid of the mirror or put it back in the locked storage place. No, that would be too easy. It’s a story about a cursed object– we don’t know why, but we don’t really need to know. It’s just interesting seeing how the mirror does its thing.