Two things about Oculus intrigued me enough to set aside the time to watch it. The first reason was it came heavily recommend to me, secondly, Mike Flanagan is the director. I enjoyed Absentia for its lofty aspirations, Oculus feels the opposite. It feels like a lazy story that doesn't serve any sort of point. The film meanders back and forth between two stories that would have been better as stand alone films.
Oclus follows Kaylie Russell (Annalise Basso, Karen Gillan) and her brother Tim (Garrett Ryan, Brenton Thwaites) in two different time periods. One in which they are children and first encounter the mirror, ending with the death of their parents Alan (Rory Cochrane) and Marie (Katee Sackhoff). In the other time period both are now
