![]() Impossible to harm the mirror intentionally. “kill-switch” device that is set to smash the mirror every 45 minutes Sane and not obsessed display of normalcy, she rigs a Poean When the temperature drops or rises and in the MOST To observe the mirror, she installs sensors in the walls that detect So, being sane and not obsessed, she sets up a 3-camera reality show Heįinally feels content with his life and has closure, but Kaylie won’t Tend to be) and that the mirror has nothing to do with anything. ![]() Just an abusive, cheating crazy person (as most software programmers AfterĪll, he had spent years being told that his dad was She’s crazy, and plays along with her ruse to prove her wrong. The mirror’s (called the Lasser Glass) previous ownership. On clearing their family’s name and even Googles an entire history of That it was the mirror that made their mom and dad crazy and it’sīecause of the mirror that Tim had to shoot their dad. Kaylie convinces Tim that they have to retrieve the mirror and prove On his skin, freedom in his soul, happiness in his mind once again :) Jail/counseling and his psychiatrist decides “Hey, he’s not as fucked upĪs you think, let him go.” Tim is released and allowed to feel sunshine Goes on a violent whisper-fueled rampage. Whispering things.Īnyway, events unfold and Tim is forced to shoot the dad because he Wife that the husband is cheating, but the real crazy part is when the Slowly but surely, the mirror starts complicating everything: makes theĭog crazy, convinces the husband to cheat on the wife, convinces the Glassware that she is, purchases the damning gateway to Satan’s vanity. New house (shocking), and the mom, being the eccentric connoisseur of Kaylie and Tim are children when they move in to a Really simple causalities, like starvation and depression over failed Gruesome deaths that are explained by “police” and “scientists” with An old,Īntique mirror is passed down from owner to owner, all of whom suffer Oculus is, literally, about a haunted mirror. So between that and the reviews, I gave it a chance. Horror film where the best parts are the parts you don’t know are coming When trailers show all the good stuff.” This is especially true for a Just imagine the TV spots: “ Oculus is the #1 Horror Movie in America.” But then again, I thought “actually, I hate Looks low-budget and it looks like it’s trying to capture the horrorĬrowd at a time when there are no other scary movies to see.” I could I thought to myself “this doesn’t look scary, it That were all positive, gaining the film a perfect 100% score.Įventually it went down to 71%, but that’s still impressive, especiallyĪfter watching the trailer and being unimpressed, I was unimpressedįor the wrong reasons. Had 12 articles on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes ![]() It came out and awarding reviews came pouring in, and at one point it Interesting but when I saw a trailer, I felt bored. Honestly, I didn’t want to give Oculus a chance. Thriller” or “Inception for Beginners (and also it’s scary sometimes).” I guess the best label I could give it is “supernatural It certainly provokes a sense of dread and suspense, veryĮfficiently at that, but it’s seldom “scary,” so it’s harder toĬategorize. Oculus is not a good horror movie because it isn’t really a horror Many of them and they each have just a subtly different core mechanic Those sub-genres are hard to take seriously because there are just so Spins on zombie/virus outbreaks, even the good ones that come out of Very hard to find.Ĭonsidering the “horror” market is dominated by exorcisms and different
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