EDITOR’S NOTE: Mirror of Death was on USA Up All Night on August 3, 1991 as Dead of Night. 

Sara (Julie Merrill) escapes her abusive partner, Bobby (John Reno), and winds up at the home of her actress sister, April (Janet Graham, the wife of TV movie director William, who made Get Christie Love! and Return to the Blue Lagoon), who is leaving town and lets her stay. Bobby breaks into the house, slaps her around, tries to rape her and then gets stopped by April’s boyfriend Richard (Richard Fast).

Sara takes a bath, reads a book of magic and ends up doing a ritual. This creates a mirror version of herself — yes, this is a spooky mirror movie — that walks into her, heals all her wounds, and resolves her problems. Tell me why demonic possession is an issue again?

That said, the mirror does tell her,  “Goodbye, Sara. I’ll give you back this body if it’s not to my liking…” when she goes to work. She then starts picking up bartenders with strange dances, tells people she’s the goddess of love and beauty, and also picks up salsa dancers, just to remind you this was made in 1988.

Sara hooks up with the bartender, who writes on her possessed mirror, causing her to kill him, which feels logical. Bobby then breaks in and gets killed, too. So many men get killed that at one point, three of them fall out of a closet, and Sara is shocked. She can’t even remember murdering them.

How do you solve a possessed mirror? John Smith (Bob Kipp), who rides a bicycle through Los Angeles and seems pretty good-natured for a possession remover. Sara responds by zapping out his eyes, just as her sister is possessed to kill her boyfrien,d and Sara even kills a few cops to make this even crazier. April shoots Sa,ra and get this, the surviving cops shoot the mirror demon until it dies. How is that a thing? And why would John Smith have blanks that April could use? Was she faking? Man, so many things are left up to us, the audience, right?

In another movie made the same year by the same director, Deryn Warren’s The Boy from Hell, characters watch this film on TV. He also made the Apolonia-starring Black Magic Woman, working with the same writer, Jerry Daly.

You can watch this on Tubi.