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If last summer's “The Conjuring” offered possession stories their classiest entry in decades, Mike Flanagan's “Oculus” lends elegance to haunted object movies, a subgenre distinguished by such dubious classics as “Death Bed: The Bed That Eats.”Flanagan, expanding his own 2006 short film to feature length, finds both humanity and horror in the story of two siblings who reunite to exorcise a possessed mirror, but the film's uneven metaphorical core and a decidedly incomplete mythology prevents “Oculus” from reflecting anything truly haunting.
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Karen Gillan (TV's “Doctor Who”) plays Kaylie Russell, a young woman who reunites with her brother Tim (Brenton Thwaites) upon his release from criminal institutionalization in order to make good on a promise they made to one another as children. Returning to their childhood home for the first time in 11 years, they set up a barrage of cameras and other accoutrements in order to capture proof that a malignant force in an antique mirror is responsible for the deaths of their parents Marie (Katee Sackhoff) and Alan (Rory Cochrane).Despite their meticulous precautions,(Download Oculus Movie) alarms and fail-safes, Kaylie and Tim quickly start experiencing strange visions that not only don't reflect reality, but also undermine their efforts to obtain objective evidence of supernatural forces.
But after they find themselves unwittingly reliving the dysfunction and violence that led to their parents’ murder, Kaylie and Tim begin questioning whether or not they can go through with their plan — or even survive the night.Combining the adult Kaylie and Tim's current endeavor with a flashback narrative that leads up to the murder for which Tim was institutionalized, Flanagan expertly creates a web of mystery that drives the audience towards a genuinely terrifying climax.(Download Oculus Movie) Although the present-day story guarantees that the duo survives the flashback story, it manages never to undermine suspense, especially as their grown-up selves begin questioning whether ghosts and spirits were to blame, or they've merely concocted the mirror story to ignore the harrowing truths about a painful childhood trauma.
Thankfully, the movie more or less validates their supernatural phobias from the outset, both providing a detailed history of the mirror's destructive path and creating an escalating series of horrors that rely liberally upon both classic scare tactics and subtler mind games. From the wincing pain of pulling off a fingernail to the looming presence of glowing-eyed specters,(Download Oculus Movie) “Oculus” pulls out all of the stops to keep the audience on its toes.Even with a litany of marital problems beleaguering the increasingly troubled parents, however, the film never quite pulls off the notion that all of Kaylie and Tim's fears, revisited and re-experienced, are manifestations of the adolescent turmoil created by their subconscious a decade earlier. Maintaining the constant battle between the siblings to explain or refute supernatural occurrences happening around them.
Flanagan and co-screenwriter Jeff Howard's efforts to provide a psychological foundation for their characters’ behavior too often comes across as a stilted debate between two first-year psych majors trying to out-diagnose one another with information gleaned from WebMD searches.That said,(Download Oculus Movie) both pairs of actors playing the siblings are pretty remarkable, especially Annalisse Basso and Garrett Ryan as the younger Kaylie and Tim. Witnessing the deterioration of not just their parents’ marriage but also their sanity, Basso and Ryan avoid being either overly petulant or precociously mature, regarding the vagaries of the adult world with an appropriate, and resonant, mixture of bewilderment and terror.As their elder counterparts, Gillan plays Kaylie's determination so rigidly and intensely that it feels like she should have been the one institutionalized, while Thwaites offers the right amount of incredulity (and later, irrefutable acceptance) that they're confronting forces more powerful than they can control.
Although there are several bone-chilling scares, some supernatural and others frighteningly corporeal, the film doesn't pay off strongly because it never explains the “motives” of the evil force within the mirror nor establishes what it means if that force succeeds (or fails) in manipulating its owners into committing murder.(Download Oculus Movie) Do those things matter? Maybe or maybe not, depending on if you merely want to be shaken up or truly disturbed.“Oculus” might be successfully unsettling and claustrophobic as it unfolds, but Flanagan's film still leaves us with more questions than answers; this movie is no “Death Bed,” but the one Flanagan forces audiences to lay in nevertheless isn't made quite as well as it needs to be.Funny how Kaylie Russell (Karen Gillan) is only able to trace the seemingly indestructible antique she blames for the death of her mom and dad as far back as the 18th century, and to the Scottish royal family's country estate.
This becomes a convenient means for the makers of Oculus to completely evade having to explain how a wall mirror became the locus of supernatural activity, maliciously driving a mother to drown her tots, causing a fat man to lose weight before driving him to suicide, and convincing Kaylie and her brother Tim's (Brenton Thwaites) parents that their marriage was being torn apart by another woman.(Download Oculus Movie) Take, though, the entity's absurdly elaborate sense of humor, and strange propensity to cause dehydration, as a given and the film may be enjoyed as a throwback to such low-rent, psychologically charged chillers as Sandor Stern's Pin, another slow-burning yarn about siblings tormented by a maybe-not-so-inanimate object.In Oculus, seeing isn't exactly believing when Kaylie and Tim reunite with their antique mirror for a final showdown, and the film is at its nerviest when foregrounding the object's taste for blurring the lines between the real and the imagined.
Tim enters the fray as a doubting Thomas, and with an irritating litany of psycho-babble as a means of explaining the horrors of the past away, but Kaylie quickly makes him into a believer with newfangled recording devices and a plethora of iMacs, which first capture the pair having discussions in contexts in which they weren't originally delivered. As plants wither around them,(Download Oculus Movie) the brother and sister are cruelly teased with the possibility of having done harm to themselves and to others, from a shard of pottery driven into a loved one's neck to a bite taken out of what may not actually be an apple. And it's with these did-I-or-didn't-I horrors that the stage is set for what becomes a grippingly staged time warp.Oculus begins in dreams before freely hopscotching between Kaylie and Tim's present-day sleuthing and the horrors that, 11 long years ago, sent her to foster care and him to a mental institution. Through a mini-triumph of montage, what begins as run-of-the-mill backstory vomit is thrillingly repackaged as an almost-Lynchian duet between warring states of consciousness.
The mirror, as it tightens its grip on the brother and sister, forces them to waltz alongside their younger selves during their parents' last days, and subsequently the depth of the siblings' fraught relationship to their shared past is put into poignant focus. The final shocks may completely unhinge from Kaylie and Tim's troubles with memory and foreground all the supernatural hooey that's so dubious about the story to begin with, but until then, director Mike Flanagan's keying of his formalist frights to his characters' subjectivities makes Oculus both a scarier and wittier haunted-house attraction than James Wan's The Conjuring.(Download Oculus Movie) Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the deadest of them all? That’s the sort of rhetorical query facing siblings Kaylie (Karen Gillan) and Tim (Brenton Thwaites), who reunite after a decade to take care of some unfinished, supernatural business. Mike Flanagan’s well-made if featherweight horror movie gives the characters a pretty cool antagonist: an antique mirror known as the Lasser Glass that has the uncanny habit of persuading its owners to commit murder and suicide.
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That sad fate befell Kaylie and Tim’s parents (Katee Sackhoff and Rory Cochrane), whom we see in flashback sequences interwoven with the siblings’ present-day attempts to conquer this evil piece of furniture.(Watch Oculus Online in High Quality) Flanagan has lots of fun with the crisscrossing timelines, in which the protagonists can never be sure if what they’re seeing is figment or foe: Glowing-eyed ghosts flit menacingly, and Kaylie has a memorably cringeworthy moment involving a broken lightbulb that she mistakes for an apple. Yet the familial discord the film attempts to plumb for emotional effect never jells into anything substantial. For all its genre delights, Oculus is little more than a well-tooled creepshow.
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