Release Date: 13 June 2014 The
Certification: 15
Time: 104 minutes
Director: Mike Flanagan
Karen Gillan, Brenton Thwaites, Katee Sackhoff, Rory Cochrane, Annalise Basso, Ryan Garrett
Tim Russell is fragile. Just outside the high-security psychiatric hospital, who was a patient for ten years, he began to show signs of recovery after a deeply traumatic event in his childhood. Her older sister Kaylie (Karen Gillan American accent), who was waiting outside sees things quite differently from him now that. Determined to prove that he is not a supernatural cause of the tragedy in his past, he was recruited to help Tim, document the effects of evil mirror that sent his parents violently insane. However, as you spend more time in the presence of the ghosts of the past resurface mirror, literally and figuratively.
Although he is a ghost mirror in a clever horror film Oculus is not based on people and creatures appear out of nowhere in the mirror image. In fact, the "classic" mirror trope fear hardly used; appears much because apparently everything else, as you can see for yourself. Instead of relying on cheap tricks to the audience to loud noises or things that pop out of the blow Nothing, Oculus lava viewers with slow waves of fear. This is a film that spends a lot of time. In the minds of the characters as they mocked and manipulated by the mirror, slowly corrupts similar strength in the ring in The Lord of the Rings, or the painting of Vigo the Carpathian in Ghostbusters 2
While Oculus has two different stories - Tim and Kaylie tragic childhood and his current situation - the director Mike Flanagan (whose last feature uprising was launched with great success) maintains clarity on procedures and controls for a firm hand. With parallels and connections between the scenes of the elegant cut from one period to another, Flanagan (who also serves as editor in this film) advises Tim and Kaylie past and as the mirror begins to exert harmful influence barriers between past, present, memory and illusion begin to crumble.
Help this feeling of alienation and discomfort is wonderfully creepy score for Newton Brothers. The use of a strange combination of synths and sounds, such as broken glass or metal scraping, the music beats and pulses. Slowly, almost imperceptibly, builds until suddenly silent apostasy music. Since the film as a whole, is the score, in the ebb and flow that wrongfooting many to be the mirror makes its victims.
Compared to most modern horror films, Oculus is a bit slower and more conscious and better. Cleverly put, this film has time to set the mood and scene content to chip away at his audience with smaller, more alert to squirm induction.
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
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