Oculus

Why so bad? oh god.

Normally I'm very soon pretty bored of a horror movie...though this one was so different.

As good as the Shining was something I said to all around me as soon as the picture ended. Brilliantly conceived and executed.

It was 2006 when director Mike Flanagan first caught our attention. We obtained a copy of his short, Oculus: Chapter 3 and were one of the first internet reviews of the short (a favourable review in case you were wondering).

Oculus has no real sense of logic and in its second half it relinquishes any attempt to build up a coherent plot. As we it so frequently happens in horror movies, the authors apparently intertwine, but effectively confuse past and present, reality and illusion in order to conceal the lack of any consistent storyline and feel free to serve the viewer with a confused sequel of horror sequences governed by no logic at all.

There are tons of reviews that talk about how the storytelling is good and I have to agree. The only thing that really annoys me is that the female protagonist (Kayle) has prepared herself for how long?

I can understand why it got the bad reviews, the movie feels a bit messy and there were less explanations to various things happening. Also the jum from past to present gets a bit annoying.

This is not a bad movie, but it is not great either. It is somewhere in the middle, but I go and give it a rating of six.

A good horror movie can frighten us simply by going for the most basic survival instincts we have. A lunatic with a hatchet can make us check our door locks a few extra times.