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fanofspooky · 1 month

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Horror movies of 2013

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spacemancharisma · 2 months

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this, too

#personal #such a good movie #oculus #oculus 2013 #movie recs

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nerd-at-sea5 · 3 months

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ongoing saga in mike flanagan’s work that’s just ‘parents manage to have some fucked up hand in their child’s death’

like i’m reading some summaries for other movies he’s done and like. my dude really likes to write parents attempting to kill or actually killing their kids-

#mike flanagan #the fall of the house of usher #the haunting of hill house #oculus #oculus 2013

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filmista · 6 months

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#oculus #oculus 2013 #mike flanagan #horror #horror film #Halloween #Halloween Watch #film #movie #cinema #film review #filmista

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junipers-ghost · 7 months

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(Spoilers below for the movie Oculus, a 2013 horror movie directed by Mike Flanagan).

Ohhh I absolutely LOVE tragedies where the characters are doomed from the start and don’t know it. I love it when a character is mostly very smart, and they have an elaborate plan on how to defeat the Big Evil Thing and you almost believe they can do it. But then the ending rolls around and you realize that maybe they would have had a better chance at survival if they had done nothing at all. Which was never going to happen, because that’s goes against everything that character believes in. Ughhh it’s so gut-wrenching, I love it

#oculus #oculus movie #oculus 2013 #horror #oculus Kaylie #horror movie #juni posts #this was the first Mike Flanagan directed thing I’ve watched #aside from the midnight club which I have not finished #I also don’t know much about Mike Flanagan so I went in with fresh eyes which was cool #I don’t watch a lot of horror movies but I actually liked this one a lot #(which was probably helped by the fact that it was not that scary since I watched the trailer first lol but still. it was good)#also the acting was good especially from the kids #I recommend seeing it if you haven’t already

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thee-radio-host-is-a-kookaburra · 7 months

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watched Oculus (2013), here’s my thoughts!

Honestly? Really good. The whole thing with the mom gave me major Evil Dead Rise vibes lol. I’d say this movie as a whole ranks right next to The Black Phone in terms of quality.

The whole premise was good, but was also basically what my OCD tells me is happening all the time lol. But seriously, it was actually a really clever twist on the “demon makes people see things” plot.

The band-aid scene was the only scene that made me physically cringe, so if you’re sensitive to stuff involving fingernails, I recommend you look away at that part.

I also have a theory that the mirror made the dad see the mom as the dog that vanished, hence why he chained her up like a dog and aimed the gun like he was going to mercy kill her at first. And then maybe the facade vanished when he shot her, but he was in too deep to stop and just didn’t care. But y’know, that’s just my theory.

Overall? Good movie. I give it a grotesque cow/10

#and yea ik my theory kind of crumbles when you remember that he was still referring to her as their mom #but whatever. my idea is still cool okay??#oculus 2013

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lightsinthemist · 2 years

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So I finally watched Oculus yesterday and I'm not saying that the Karen Gillan's character was amy pond coded with all the past bleeding into future, overall just weird overlapping of time and what even is real, it's all in my head, mad woman locked in the attic, but yes, that's exactly what I'm saying

#oculus 2013 #horror #fucking with time and reality type of horror #amy pond coded #amy pond #I'm really not eloquent enough to give this justice #but I'm sure there's so much more to dig into #also the image of a garden being a safe space from the house but for it being just and illusion #gothic heroine #I would love to talk with someone about this film geez #I'm almost sure that there could be even done a case for the whole cassandra theory

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goponylover · 7 months

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Sherlock Oculus AU

This was an idea I kicked around back in the day when I first saw the movie that just came back to me. The basic idea was that after Katie's death, Sherlock would be tasked with determining once and for all whether or not the mirror is haunted.

#bbc sherlock #johnlock #john watson #sherlock holmes #oculus #oculus au #oculus 2013 #oculus movie #my art

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horrorwomensource · 2 years

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KAREN GILLAN as KAYLIE RUSSELL • Oculus (2013) dir. Mike Flanagan

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haveyouseenthishorrormovie · 6 months

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SUMMARY: A woman tries to exonerate her brother, who was convicted of murder, by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon.

While it is not her favourite Mike Flanagan work, the mod did enjoy watching this movie.

#oculus (2013)#supernatural horror #psychological horror #2010s #united states #north american movie #mentionable warning #child abuse #horror #movies #poll

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splatteronmywalls · 2 months

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#oculus #horror #horror films #horror film #2013

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fanofspooky · 8 months

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hellothereimhannah · 7 months

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11/31

Oculus (2013)

#hellothereimhannah #Halloween #October #Halloween movies #horror movies #scary movies #Oculus #2013

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filmpalette · 2 years

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Oculus (2013) dir. Mike Flanagan

#oculus #mike flanagan #2013 #karen gillan #katee sackhoff #2010s

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jasonsutekh · 1 year

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Oculus (2013)

A brother and sister reunite to take on a haunted mirror that caused the deaths of their parents.

The horror aspects of this movie clearly make use of the more surreal cinematic techniques, in particular blending two states of time together and adjusting perception in the same shot. Also cutting between things and changing one or both on the reverse. Memory and perception manipulation is a fairly unusual element to make the main focus so it’s different to traditional horror narratives.

Not much occurs for over half the film, it’s only when the mirror really begins to ‘wake up’ that things get intriguing. The story also spends a lot of time leaving hints that appear to be building up the lore of the curse or spirit but it’s left very unclear what the rules are, if any, and the obviously sentient motivation remains unclear.

Most of the acting is fairly consistent, nobody drops the drama throughout, although some characters could have been written more complex. The locations were simple but used effectively due to the distorted perceptions of space. Also one character has some plans to combat the threat but they’re variable and not often very effective.

As far as conclusions go, this one was pretty disappointing. It leaves far too many questions unanswered, not just how the rules of the curse work but also origins, complicity of the ghosts, and the crack suggested it was building up to a method of destroying it. It’s less an enigma than half a story with the rest left up to a traditional cheap horror ending.

3/10 -This one’s but but it’s got some good in it, just there-

-The directors wife appears in the film in a photo of one of the mirror’s victims.

-There was some pressure from studios to make the film a found-footage format.

#Film #Review #Oculus #2013 #Horror #Supernatural #JasonSutekh

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daisies-on-a-cup · 10 months

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Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami //@danielcalmdown//So What's Wrong?, What Love Comes To, by Ruth Stone//dog thoughts, Anna Haifisch (@/anna_haifisch on twitter)//love without witnesses, by s.s. @pendulum-north//Addie Bundren, As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner//eclipse, 2013, @wiktorjackowski//Secondo, Hannibal 3x3//Gift, by Melissa Houpert//Ghismonda with the heart of Guiscardo (Detail), Bernardino Mei//Oculus, Sally Wen Mao

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