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DAY 31.2: Oculus
On Hulu

This is Mike Flanagan's first actual major movie with a budget, and it's what made me fall in love with him as a director.

Oculus is about a pair of siblings who, after a tragedy with their parents when they were young, decide to return to the house with a haunted mirror that they believe was the cause of it. The mirror then begins to make them see things, making the task of destroying it much more difficult.

So this movie is brilliant to me. They just need to destroy an evil mirror. That's it. That's literally all they need to do, and yet they created an interesting narrative around it. It flawlessly intercuts the pair of siblings and their story as kids with them as adults. It's honestly a chilling story that has added disturbing imagery that sticks with you.

But just the idea of something that provides you with so many hallucinations that you just don't know what's going on, and you just can't fight it. How do you win? How do you overcome something that literally detaches you from reality? It's haunting and sinister all in one, and it keeps you guessing until the end.

It laces a humanistic story in here as well about obsession and an attempt to move on, tying it with a sibling bond that is always at odds. And you can't help but be on the edge of your seat, knowing both seem to be going down a dangerous path.

Oculus is incredible and I recommend everyone check it out.

Rating: 9/10

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