Oddity is a fun little horror flick from Ireland that melds a murder mystery with supernatural elements into a nicely compact 98 minutes. It's got a good sense of humor with some genuine jump scares and I liked it a lot!
A year after her twin sister Dani is murdered, blind psychic antiques dealer Darcy (both played by Carolyn Bracken) visits her brother-in-law Ted (Gwilym Lee) and his new girlfriend Yana (Caroline Menton) at the scene of the crime, the old house Ted and Dani had been renovating.
I'll leave it at that, plot wise, since the story's surprises are a large part of the fun, but will add that the film also features a creepy wooden man (see above), several scenes in a psychiatric hospital, a glass eye, possibly some ghosts, and the perfect zinger of an ending.
Oddity is streaming on Shudder, along with director Damian McCarthy's previous film, Caveat, which I didn't like quite as much, but is still totally worth watching.
1 comment:
Good film, creepy, and unsettling in moments. Like that it let you use your intelligence to fill in some details instead of force-feeding every bit of info.
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