It's not a good sign when you go to research the film you just watched and are unable to recall the title. With Sam Evenson's The Changing Room I at first thought it had been called The Mirror Room and then The Mirror Box before finally re-discovering its actual title. At its core this uses mirrors to great effect, but even so was maybe underutilised.
Wanting to try on some clothes while in a shop, a woman (Jamie Taylor Ballesta - 13 Reasons Why TV show) decides to ignore the warning sign and head on up some stairs to the changing room. The room has two full length mirrors opposite each other, making for a fun infinity effect that the girl messes around with. Her fun turns to horror however when she spies something in one of the many reflections that shouldn't be there.
I love the idea of having two mirrors facing each other, I feel it must have been hard to film without the camera getting in shot. The horror aspect was what let this down though, the entity glimpsed just wasn't that exciting to see, with The Changing Room soon falling into an obvious plot path. It was well shot and fits a lot into its four minute run time, but when the core horror isn't there for me it wasn't going to leave much of an impression. I did like the ending shot, probably the highlight, but all in all this didn't do enough to really stay in the mind.
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