In Oddity, Dani spends her days and nights renovating an old house that she plans on moving into with her husband Tim, the head of a mental asylum. One night, she decides to sleep over, resulting in her brutal murder at the presumed hands of an escaped inmate. One year later, her blind psychic twin sister pays a visit to the house in an attempt to uncover who is truly responsible for the murder.
A creepy, atmospheric horror-mystery. While the resolution to the mystery is pretty easy to call before the end of the first act, this film is still to be commended for its constant sense of lurking dread. There’s no real lead character. We spend most of the run-time with Tim's new girlfriend. She leaves by the end of the second act and isn’t all that important in the grand scheme of things, though. It feels like the surviving twin sister should be the lead, and while she’s definitely in this, she doesn’t get as much screen-time as others.
Despite these complaints, Oddity still manages to send a consistent chill up-and-down your spine for a full hour and thirty-five minutes. It also features one of the best “haunted houses” in modern cinema (Ain’t no way I’m stepping foot in there, let alone spending a night there or live there). The wooden dummy is plenty creepy and foreboding as well.
4 STARS
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