Mirror Mirror
Director: Marina Sargenti Run Time: 110 min. Format: DCP Rating: R Release Year: 1990
Starring: Rainbow Harvest, Karen Black
Come celebrate the FOFIF’s favorite season with a screening of Marina Sargenti’s MIRROR MIRROR! To make an additional $10 donation to The Future of Film is Female, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.
Before THE CRAFT, there was MIRROR MIRROR. Co-written by sisters Annette and Gina Cascone and directed by Marina Sargenti, the film follows high school goth Megan (Rainbow Harvest, a dead ringer for Winona Ryder’s Lydia Deetz character in BEETLEJUICE) as she deals with typical teenage stuff: crushes, bullies, and a haunted mirror that grants her supernatural powers. MIRROR MIRROR combines YA vibes straight out of a Christopher Pike novel with plenty of R-rated thrills. But the film’s most notable—and enjoyable—aspect is its nuanced portrayal of relationships between women, which was rare for the horror genre in 1990. –AGFA
Screening before MIRROR MIRROR:
MICRO-SHORT, written and directed by Beth Fletcher (6 min)
A woman hypnotized by her microwave finds out how far she’ll go to satiate its hunger.