Mirror, Mirror

MOVIE #1,406 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 02.28.24 𝑀𝒶𝓇𝓉𝓎: A MARTIN SCORSESE DIRECTOR FOCUS 🇮🇹🇺🇸 This is Scorsese’s episode from the “Stephen Spielberg presents” anthology series Amazing Stories that aired for 44 episodes on NBC between 1985-1987 (Spielberg has a “story by” credit, which he received on a bulk of the Season 1 entries). The intro is very funny and awkwardly 80s. It begins with Sam Waterston speaking with Dick Cavett on a Dick Cavett Show-like talk show called “The Dick Cavett Show.” He's talking about writing a recent horror film and he’s never frightened by seeing what he writes come to life. Upon returning home he berates a young aspiring writer fan outside of his very fancy property and then spends the rest of the 24-minute run-time being scared as hell of a monster figure (played by Tim Robbins for some reason) that he keeps seeing in the mirror.

It's hard to find any real Scorsese's authorship here as this feels like the very definition of some ‘for hire’ work, but it's interesting to see him play within the fantastical horror genre at least. Although, by these results, it doesn't suit him (sorry Shutter Island heads… we'll get there eventually).

The episode ends with Waterston literally becoming the monster in the mirror. Which makes you think. Think about what, exactly, I’m not so sure.

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While guesting on a talk show, horror novelist Jordan Manmouth claims he is immune to being frightened by the nightmarish creatures he creates - and comes to regret the taunt when he is terrorized by a black-caped phantom. It was released on March 9, 1986.