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   Oculus is a 2013 psychological/supernatural horror film directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Karen Gillan and Brenton Thwaites. The film marked Flanagan's mainstream film debut as a writer, director and editor, as well as Gillan's first lead role in a mainstream film.

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   Oculus is a 2013 American supernatural psychological horror film co-written, edited, and directed by Mike Flanagan. [5] It is based on his short film Oculus: Chapter 3 – The Man with the Plan , [ 6 ] and stars Karen Gillan and Brenton Thwaites as two young adult siblings who are convinced that an antique mirror is responsible for the death ...

3. www.rogerebert.com › reviews › oculus-2014Oculus movie review & film summary (2014) - Roger Ebert

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   Oculus. Add Mike Flanagan’s “Oculus” to the horror subgenre of supernatural item movies. This time it’s not a haunted doll or magical box but a deadly mirror with the power to compel people to commit violent acts.

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   Haunted by the violent demise of their parents 10 years earlier, adult siblings Kaylie (Karen Gillan) and Tim (Brenton Thwaites) are now struggling to rebuild their relationship. Kaylie suspects ...

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   • Actors: Karen Gillan

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   Apr 10, 2014 · At its best, “Oculus” is a tightly enacted chamber drama that just happens to include supernatural phenomena. The mirror is messing with them at every turn — and, by extension, it’s ...

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   Film The Movie that Won't Stop Cheating Oculus has a promising premise, but it isn’t long before that promise gets broken. It begins with a guy called Tim, who gets released from a mental institute.

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   Is 'Oculus' a horror movie?

   • Add Mike Flanagan’s “Oculus” to the horror subgenre of supernatural item movies. This time it’s not a haunted doll or magical box but a deadly mirror with the power to compel people to commit violent acts. A man will think that he is trying to rip a Band-Aid from his finger only to realize that he’s pulling his fingernail off instead.

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   Is Oculus based on a true story?

   • Oculus is based on director, co-writer, and editor Mike Flanagan 's earlier 2005 short horror film, Oculus: Chapter 3 – The Man with the Plan. The short contained only one setting, a single actor, and a mirror. The short became highly acclaimed, and interest quickly arose regarding the adaptation of the short into a feature.

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   Is 'Oculus' a spook movie?

   • The very act of watching movies calls into question the way we process reality; “Oculus,” for all its familiar scares, expertly capitalizes on this fundamental power. In recent years, few American genre films have managed the extreme spookiness found in many of their overseas brethren.

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   Is Kaylie really crazy in 'Oculus'?

   • Gillan sells that hair-trigger intensity in the film’s best moments, and when Flanagan and co-writer Jeff Howard open the door to the however-brief possibility that Kaylie may actually be crazy, “Oculus” is at its most interesting. Sadly, they can’t maintain that intrigue past the second act.

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   Does 'Oculus' deliver intelligently nasty scares?

   • Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on April 17, 2014. Retrieved January 11, 2022. ^ "Review: 'Oculus' delivers intelligently nasty scares". Los Angeles Times. April 10, 2014. ^ "SXSW Review: Ambition, Originality & Scares Drive Oculus". ComingSoon. Retrieved February 28, 2022. ^ Kermode, Mark (June 14, 2014).

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   Why is 'Oculus' so haunted?

   • “Oculus” keeps digging further into their frightened state, thickening the dreary atmosphere at every turn, so that even while the outcome of the scenario is fairly predictable early on, it’s continually haunting as it maps out a path to get there.

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