Miroir, mon beau miroir
2026 · 2m
Directed by Thibault Van Damme
Genres: horror, mystery, thriller
Louis inherits his uncle's house and quickly discovers its secret: every mirror in it has been carefully covered — a vital protection against what lurks in the reflections.
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Finally, someone weaponizes the mirror premise against itself—instead of "what's in the reflection," it's "what happens when you DON'T look?" Van Damme takes the tired haunted-house grammar and inverts it into paranoia about absence, which is genuinely perverse.
A lean refinement of the domestic gothic tradition, executed with disciplined restraint; the covered mirrors operate as both narrative device and formal statement, echoing everything from Cocteau's *Orphée* to contemporary slow-burn horror's meditation on the gaze.
The restraint itself is the choice—two minutes without showing what's actually in those reflections could be lazy, but Van Damme sustains tension through negative space and sound design, letting audience dread do the work a lesser filmmaker would've resolved with a jump scare.