Film 55 - Oculus

Oculus - 19/06/2014

Hailed as Nail-Biting, Mind-Bending and Very, Very Scary, I went into Oculus thinking, "Could this be the scary film I have been looking for?"

With the World Cup in the early group stages and England's  important match against Uruguay,  I thought no better way to enjoy the football than going to the cinema. 

I have been let down recently by horror movies with unoriginal plots, rubbish endings and unlikeable characters,  so my expectations for Oculus were not too high. 

When a family (parents and two children) are traumatised by a possibly haunted mirror, years later  the children decide to prove that the mirror had more to do with their parents deaths rather than what was thought. 

The film runs on two separate interwoven time lines with the young kids and ten year older young adults and is more chiller than a horror.   There are some great spooky moments that bend the reality for the viewer.   What is real and what isn't?  Did that actually happen?    Oculus plays on the confusion the mirror causes and does it well.   I even liked the way it ended. 

I did comment to a couple of mates that I would not be looking in a mirror for a couple of days  just in case.

So for horror/chiller fans,  I can recommend this film.   Go with an open mind,  it is a slow burner and not all out loud scares and bangs.