An auction house worker comes across a mirror that she suspects caused her father to torture and kill her mother when she was a child. After her brother gets out of the nut-house where he had been since that incident, she takes him to their childhood home where she has rigged a series of surveillance cameras and other such props in order to prove her suspicions and destroy the evil mirror once and for all. The movie switches back and forth between present time and their childhood and what led up to all the craziness that unfolded amongst their family's devastating outcome...
What makes "Oculus" stand out from a lot of the other 'mainstream' ghost/possession movies these days is that it goes for a more 'slow-burn' type of advent, as opposed to the million jump-scares and CGI ghost method that is popular now. I guess my main problem would be that it really feels like two-movies-in-one with the frequent flashbacks, which actually makes a lot of the present day stuff seem a bit pointless in the long-run. The childhood stuff is MUCH more interesting and could maybe have worked on it's own, I'd say, without all the present day drama shit getting in the way. All that could have worked, I thought, but it ends up kinda getting buried beneath the much more engaging flashback B-story. In that way, the movie as a whole felt a bit 'clunky' to me and not as well thought out as it could have been. Overall, "Oculus" is a fine one to put on if you got nothing else to watch some night...
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