 "Through the Looking Glass" has since been shown at some film festivals, such as the 2013 "In The Flesh" film festival.In a rare review in a mainstream publication, John Grant in "The Encyclopedia of Fantasy" comments that the movie "deploys some sophisticated fantasy" and "announce[s] that pornographic fantasy movies need not be entirely awful, although almost all of its successors have been"

A novelization of the film's script, written by Eileen Lottman under pseudomyn of Molly Flute, was published through Dell Publishing.Largely similar to the film, the novel elaborates on the movie's story line, elaborating on the mirror's history within Catherine's family and heavily implying that her mother was spirited away through the mirror like Catherine was.