Synopsis
A woman tries to exonerate her brother's murder conviction by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon.
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Cast
- Karen GillanKaylie Russell
- Brenton ThwaitesTim Russell
- Katee SackhoffMarie Russell
- Rory CochraneAlan Russell
- Annalise BassoYoung Kaylie
- Garrett RyanYoung Tim
- James LaffertyMichael Dumont
- Miguel SandovalDr. Shawn Graham
- Kate SiegelMarisol Chavez
- Scott GrahamWarren
Recommendations
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Village Voice
Replete 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. - 83
The Playlist
It's easily the scariest movie since "The Conjuring," and in some ways is a deeper and more satisfying film. It's stylish but not showy, more concerned with the thematic undercurrents coursing just beneath the surface. - 82
Film.com
It’s clean, lean and smart. - 70
Variety
Cleverly complex, if not quite as scary or memorable as one might have hoped. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
The story's conclusion benefits from a closure that is satisfying despite — and even because of — its predictability. - 67
The A.V. Club
The derivative evil-mirror potboiler Oculus doesn’t exactly shatter the clichés of the genre, but it does distort them in a couple of interesting ways, beginning with a creative reversal of the usual vengeful-spirit plot. - 63
Slant Magazine
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. - 63
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Oculus earns its frights the old fashioned way — with convincingly traumatized characters, with smoke and with mirrors.
