Oculus

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First time viewed: Yes
Current Release: Yes
Watched With: Kate

Did y'all see that? She eats a light globe guys! A light globe! Oooo.

Demon mirror makes shiny eye people. Makes you hallucinate and see things. It's a handsome looking film and has some scary moments at the start as you're trying to figure out this mystery. Some nice music too. And two actors who I wouldn't in a million years believe were brother and sister.

Once the crazy starts to really kick up a notch it becomes a little problematic. The twists and turns and flashes between past and present, reality and hallucination, start happening faster and more frequently. You can understand the thinking behind this, surly that makes it scary and keeps you on edge. I found it had the opposite effect.

This is a problem found commonly in time travel stories or comic book series where they have the ability to chance the past or resurrect previously through dead characters. The same problem exists with dreams and hallucinations. Actions need to have permanent consequences for them to hold any weight. When a device has been set up that can undo any immediate threat, those threats are null and void. The investment in the action dissipates and your investment drops. Why should I feel scared that this girl has eaten an aforementioned light globe when I've now been conditioned to expect that a second later it'll be an apple again and she's fine?

Perhaps you'll get more caught up in the madness, but I find this to be a real problem. There were some good sequences here. But as it spirals more out of control it also became less interesting.