
The twenty-one-year-old Timothy "Tim" Allen Russell is discharged from a mental institution by his psychiatric Dr. Shawn Graham completely healed from a childhood trauma where his father purportedly tortured and killed his mother before being killed himself by Tim. His sister Kaylie welcomes him in the parking area and brings him home. Then she tells that they need to destroy an ancient mirror that she has found through working at an auction house. She then steals the mirror ... (Full plot summary below)
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The twenty-one-year-old Timothy "Tim" Allen Russell is discharged from a mental institution by his psychiatric Dr. Shawn Graham completely healed from a childhood trauma where his father purportedly tortured and killed his mother before being killed himself by Tim. His sister Kaylie welcomes him in the parking area and brings him home. Then she tells that they need to destroy an ancient mirror that she has found through working at an auction house. She then steals the mirror and the reluctant Tim follows his sister and has fragmented recollections from their childhood, going back to when his father Alan buys a mirror for the home office of their new family home. Kaylie and Tim see a woman with their father in his office and the behaviors of Alan and Marie change, ending in a family tragedy. Kaylie blames the mirror and now she wants to destroy it with Tim. Will they succeed?
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| Minneapolis Star TribuneColin Covert"Oculus" is not just a howling good horror film. It's a terrific film by any standard - a smart, character-driven, original hair-raiser that creeped the socks off me with no cheap scares. |
| Movie TalkJason BestThe acting isn't always as elegant as the camerawork and the story feels a tad over-extended, but with his mix of sharp shocks and intricate choreography Flanagan has come up with an impressive and effective chiller. |
| indieWireEric KohnIn Oculus, the horror is at once deceptively simple and rooted in a deep, primal uneasiness. Its scariest aspects are universally familiar. |
| The Monitor (McAllen, TX)Brooke CorsoA lot of time and effort in this film is spent on eating, or waiting to eat, or wanting to eat. It's too bad that all the buffet served was varying levels of confusion and impatience. |
| Village VoiceNick SchagerReplete with superb performances led by a paranoid Sackhoff and unhinged Cochrane, it's the rare horror film to know how to tease malevolent mysteries and deliver satisfyingly unexpected, unsettling payoffs. |
| Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleLess concerned with fake shocks and show-me violence than the grimly calibrated rotting of personalities, Oculus is one of the more intelligently nasty horror films in recent memory. |
| The Film StageBill GrahamThe tension just keeps building as layers of new knowledge, for both the characters and the audience, are acquired. |
| Philadelphia InquirerTirdad DerakhshaniWhat makes Oculus ingenious is how Flanagan and co-writer Jeff Howard take this hackneyed storyline and twist it - round 'n' round - ad infinitum into a dizzying corkscrew of a narrative. |
| Tri-City HeraldGary WolcottOculus is frighteningly good and light years better than most of the crap passed off as horror these days. |
| Metro Times (Detroit, MI)Jeff MeyersThere is a sad darkness that lurks beneath the awkward plotting. Flanagan's film may not haunt his audience the way he hoped, but it still finds a way to disturb. |