Movie Details
| Title: | Oddity | |
| Director: | Damien Mc Carthy | |
| Year: | 2024 | |
| Genre: | Ghost | |
| Times Seen: | 1 | |
| Last Seen: | 11.02.24 |
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| Date Viewed | Venue | Note |
| 11.02.24 | Internet | This Screening is part of event: Virtual All Night Horror Movie Marathon 5 Never heard of this one before either and wound up loving it. This is an Irish horror movie about a Doctor's wife alone in an old house that they are renovating when a patient appears at the door telling her to let him in because he saw that someone's inside with her. Later, her blind psychic twin (i know, but wait) visits to suss out what really happened. She brings a man made of wood like a golem to help her. So it's a little bit ghost story, little bit witch story, little bit horror, little bit revenge. And that's all in basically one location with basically three or four actors. Very economical, very efficient, very effective! It ends well too which is great. They're very different movies but I was reminded of when The Descent started at one of the Butt Numb-A-Thons that I attended. No pomp or circumstance, the movie just started and entertained the crap out of us. This was the same way for me. It's the best possible outcome for an event like this. I don't know if I just missed this or it hasn't had a ton of publicity... oh I see, it played sxsw this year and won the midnighter audience award. Cool. Anyway, I liked this quite a bit. It lets the audience get ahead of it a tiny bit (basically my metric on that is if i "figure it out" or what have you, then it's pretty blatant because I'm usually a dud about that stuff while I'm watching the movie. I still have shame for spending, like, the entire movie not realizing that one of the kids in Goodnight Mommy was a ghost.) But ahead in a good way. SPOILER WARNING I love it when movies position the audience to root FOR the ghost. It's so much fun and there's nothing quite like getting revenge from beyond the grave. This one's a tiny bit different because the ghost is actually more forgiving than the blind witch twin sister but it's the same vibe. So delicious. And the ending of this is great, him getting the haunted service bell, knowing he can't not ring it. Just so great. |
