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i would be able to tell the difference between reality and hallucination basically without even trying
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why was she so concerned when she ate a lightbulb? lightbulbs are my favourite low-calorie snack!
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imagine you get released from the psych ward and the first thing your sister says is that she wants to revisit your childhood trauma
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“Mike Flanagan is not a one-trick pony!” – Mike Flanagan, professional one-trick pony. A narratively creative story of familial dread and past trauma told through looming atmosphere, drawn-out dialogue, and snippets of parallel timelines where an unexplained supernaturally-endowed object may or may not be the cause of everyone’s problems—no, it’s not The Haunting of Hill House or Doctor Sleep or The Haunting of Bly Manor or [insert somber Flanagan dread piece], because THIS time there’s a giant ugly mirror involved. Duh. He might only have one schtick, but idk, that schtick just continues to work for me, man. The writing is strong and flows naturally, the acting is on point (especially for all three redheads, Gillan, Sackhoff, and Basso),…
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i would’ve just bought myself a nice new ikea mirror rip to them but i’m different
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I want to say that this movie was a pleasant surprise, but it wasn’t… not because it was bad, but because I was expecting something great, and that’s exactly what I got. If you’re familiar with director Mike Flanagan, it’s probably because you were lucky enough to stumble across his 2011 film Absentia, which is in my opinion one of the finest low-budget horror films to come out in the last ten years or so (check it out on Netflix if you’ve yet to see it; there are some flaws in the performances, but every other aspect of the film is astounding). As soon as I finished watching Absentia – this was about a year ago – I looked up…
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A lot of the individual beats here are sort of generic on their own (scary ghost lady especially) but the tricky structure and the story’s internal logic recode them into something really precarious and fun.
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You know you are watching a horror film or miniseries directed and written by Mike Flanagan if it has: – Characters traumatized by an event in their childhood. – Those characters have issues with their parents. – And most importantly features Kate Siegel.
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Not a Mike Flanagan film without his wifey
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Amo esta película, tipo nunca sabes si es verdad lo que estas viendo o no
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Confused as I always am. I genuinely can’t believe they ended it with him killing his sister omg. Lowkey hated the sister a bit because what do you mean you’re bringing your brother who just got released from I’m guessing an institue to immediately do this and relive all the trauma. Stupid asses didn’t even defeat it in the end genuinely I’m pissed I just watched this omg.
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JJuliet 8 月 23, 2026
Flashe una baaaanda
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Damn, questo horror è veramente inquietante
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a redhead with a complicated relationship with her parents trying to protect her younger brother while living in a haunted house. my biopic without all the murders and stuff
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Patience really does kill huh?
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If you’re looking for a movie with minimal to no jumpscares but want to be crept out and the plot twist be twisting, watch this incredible masterpiece! I wish I could sell my cousin and siblings to erase my memory and rewatch this amazing piece of work!
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Mike, you almost had me there. Love your work bud but that ending was bleak as hell. And that just isn’t the mood I’m in right now. All that said, original concept with potential for a good sequel or prequel.
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Mike Flanagan sempre é bom, até aqui, que talvez seja o seu trabalho mais fraco.
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yung kakalabas mo lang ng asylum tapos inaya ka ng ate mo na pumunta sa bahay na ’yung dahilan kung bakit ka napunta sa asylum HAMASHAJAHNAAJHA gago ampota
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that was fun, mike is fun and kate is always there so thank you
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Nightwing and Nathan Scott in one movie?
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Never in my life have I screamed so loudly at the end of a movie. What the hell did you cook Mike Flanagan?
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Kaylie really should have just counted herself lucky the first time around and not gone back for seconds Poor Tim really had a rough go of it Mike Flanagan is pretty special
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decepção viu
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istg ive seen this mirror hanging in Hill house-
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Mike Flanagan and Blumhouse Productions are such a goated duo
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Hand me that golf club and I won’t miss that’s a skill issue
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One of the few (pretty much “classic”) horror movies I actually enjoyed!
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This isn’t the mirror of desire from Harry Potter; it’s quite the opposite! Ending was so unexpected!
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Cómo a la gente le ha gustado esta película no tiene explicación. QUÉ COSA MAS MALA, alguna cosa como lo de la bombilla estuvo bien pero yo que sé
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I’ve seen Mike’s later stuff and I was honestly expecting better. Looks like he grew and developed as a writer/director over time though. I usually like confusing timelines, but this one just didn’t work for me.
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every time Mike Flanagan gets behind a camera, i know i’m gonna get emotionally devastated
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ხელეები ამიწევიაა ძმაოო🙌🏻,ეს რაიყოოო იმენა მთელ კინოს ერთი ამოსუნთქვით ვუყურეე ძააან დაძაბული და ჩამთრევი იყო,კაიხანია ასეთი ჰორორისთვის არმიყურებია, მადლობა რო ეხა სარკეში ვეღარ ვიყურებიი და ყველა ოთახში სარკე მაქ
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had a nightmare after
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God I just feel bad for timbo
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Have been hearing for a decade plus how underrated this one is and I gotta say… Pretty good! I think this Mike Flanagan guy might have some talent
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All you had to do to fix this movie was have Michael (their one external fail safe) not get killed and instead arrive at the last second to push Kaylee out if the way so that the mirror shattered itself. Edit: another idea. Brother is choking the sister in front of the mirror. The ghosties are watching and having a grand old time. The cops arrived and one of them is standing from afar aiming his gun at him telling…
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Karen Gillan ✅ Mike Flanagan ✅ Yes
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Unfortunately mirrors have been gaslighting sexy people into doing crazy shit since ancient Egypt.
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always love mike flanagan but this one is pretty apparent that it’s earlier on. liked more than absentia but he definitely was still setting up for greatness here
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The last half got me
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4.8/10
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I really wanted to like this movie because it sets up a pretty interesting premise, like a lot of Mike Flanagan’s movies. But I spent way too much time waiting for it to get good. It has a great cast, but seriously, nothing I would consider genuinely scary happens for the majority of the movie. You might find some of the events creepy, but it all feels pretty surface level. Nothing really stuck with me or felt particularly memorable by the end.
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How can a movie with Amy Pond be so freaking creepy? I don’t think I will see mirrors the same for the next few days or maybe even weeks. What a movie…
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This was really engaging! I was hooked from the get go. Wish I saw it at the cinema back in the day! It would have been even better with the jump scares
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Flippant un peu, c’est pour ca c’est mieux les meubles IKEA finalement Mike force a toi tu sors d’un trauma apres des années de psy/thérapie et on te reforce a vivre tes pire traumatismes … la folie
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Le probleme du concept c’est que comme tout ce que tu vois peut être une illusion, tu crois plus rien et t’attends juste la fin
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A great, creepy, and genuinely suspenseful horror movie. One of its biggest strengths is how effectively it blurs the line between reality and hallucination. After a while, you start questioning what is actually happening and what is only in the characters’ heads, and the movie handles that confusion extremely well without making it feel completely random. The past storyline is also integrated naturally into the present instead of feeling like unnecessary exposition. The story itself is interesting, the acting is…
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this movie was making me go insane. I had no idea what was happening
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The ending I will never forget
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spooky moments but not good enough to justify dog deaths
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So good pero la chofi no paraba de hablar y me asuste dos veces una por la peli y otra por el grito de la catrina
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i love mike flanagan
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damn it tim sucks to be you
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megona sashishi filmi da aman ramdenic me matiraaaa vaii
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One of my all time favorites. Such a mind trip of a movie. It’s a wild thing watching something and not knowing if you can believe it. I love how the different timelines combine to unfold the story in both past and present at the same time. It’s brilliant and unique. I still wake up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and avoid looking into the mirror. Such good tension throughout. It falls a little short for me in the 3rd act when things start to drag just a little. Still an amazing movie.. so terrifying. I love it.
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Ttr3vor_mcc 8 月 21, 2026
the transitions in saw if they had a budget
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Nista meni ovo nije drzalo paznju
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It’s like the skeleton of hill house which I love
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Потенциал задумки фильма реализован почти на все 100, снято очень стильно и современно, единственный минус – фильм изо всех всех сил старается быть страшным, но у него так себе выходит, в остальном – крайне увлекательное
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this move had me pissed off, more planning needed to happen. idk what kind of planning but more
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Lovely idea with poor execution
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My brother isn’t traumatized anymore?? Say no more, I know what to do.
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IDKK WHAT EVERYONE SAYS PERO KAHIT MAKAILAN REWATCHED AKO ITS STILL SO CREEPYY AND EERIE
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Good original movie about a ghost mirror.
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Iironhulk33 8 月 21, 2026
This being a WWE Film is the wild part
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I choose to never look in the mirror again
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i do not give a fuck about how haunted it is you will be prying that beautiful antique mirror out of my cold dead hands
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Una maldita locura
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damn i did not like that ending. Kaylie is a badass though, definitely one of the better horror protagonists out there. I also like the non-linear storytelling
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Can’t believe they didn’t play Five Nights At Freddy’s on the Oculus Rift not even once. Smh.
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just walk away guys
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As I tick off my Mike Flanagan list – I’ve now experienced Oculus – which is about a possessed mirror that casts its evil upon its any of its owners & their household. Good film. Has some creepy moments in the third act, plus a reasonable plot leading up to them. ⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2
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Huita
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Boring
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Мда треш
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SSandra 8 月 20, 2026
i enjoyed it so much before even knowing who flanagan really was and i saw it for karen and i should see it again!!
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Predictable. The trailer also gave WAY too much away, I had already seen half the movie by the time we actually watched it so the twists didn’t hit as much as they could have. One great twist at the end but again it was just kinda foreshadowed a little too much. Also it jumped between memories of the past and moments of the present so much that I wasn’t sure what was real and what was the past and what the mirror was making people do. It just wasn’t coherent
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Body dysmorphia but different
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Well that was kind of not what I was expecting. Even though the going back and forth from past to present was a little confusing at times, I think it was a super interesting take. I honestly kind of guessed it was going to be either one of the two at the end but just not sure which one and how it was going to play out. Overall, I enjoyed it and it was a nice little jump scare and creepy for sure.
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MMatt Orion 8 月 20, 2026
Karen Gillian is super intense all the time. Your brother just got released. Maybe take him for a relaxing weekend at the beach instead of dragging him back to relive a murder. A terrible sister. This works best when the mirror is messing with them. Flanagan was a little rusty at the other moments, but he truly masters those in his recent work. Will always be a fan of Katee Sackhoff. She’s really good here.
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Terror pipoca dos bons
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Un film d’horreur particulièrement intéressant dans sa manière d’utiliser un objet aussi simple qu’un miroir pour créer une véritable mécanique de cauchemar. Mike Flanagan livre une réalisation assez sobre, mais très efficace. Le film joue énormément sur la perception, les souvenirs et la difficulté de savoir ce qui est réellement en train de se passer. Le miroir devient progressivement bien plus qu’un simple objet hanté : il semble capable de manipuler ceux qui se trouvent face à lui. L’un des…
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That ending! Damn. So brave to weave the past and present timelines together visually. Love the way exposition happens.
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finally a horror movie where i didnt know what was gonna happen or what was real. lowkey good acting too 3.8
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povero timbo
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I had a multi-paragraph review ready to go praising the hell out of this movie and then it got deleted so instead I’ll just say that it’s a good movie with lots of cool cerebral elements and a very strong performance by the leading duo. Only real issues I have with it are that they immediately confirm the mirror is real leading to no real way to build up a mystery as to whether the brother or sister are right…
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Decent horror film. No new ground covered here but its execution is solid.
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solo el terror que hace mike flanagan me puede hacer llorar
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Mais quelle soeur chelou !
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Underrated. Pissed a lot of people off with the ending but hey not every horror movie has a happy ending 🤷🏻♀️ and its still great! The back n forth of them being kids to present day is sick. This movie is actually scary even with the cheesy cgi ghosts its still fuckin scary. Plus it has Karen Gillan and shes great, so yeah just watch it if you’re on the fence.
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jujur kakak nya jago, TAPI HANTUNYA LEBIH JAGO
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agradezco q fuera cmo la recordaba
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kızım çok hiperaktifsin ama böyle olmaz ki
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Not for nothing, but this would have been a pretty good premise for a Matt Smith Doctor Who episode, too.
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Vu dans le passé et ce film m’avait paru anecdotique, alors que là, vrai kiff en le revoyant. Ça sera pas mon préféré, mais c’est un très bon film d’horreur.
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This typically isn’t my kind of horror movie but it was so good!!!! I love Mike Flanagan and he really did such a good job. The ending wasn’t my favorite part tho. It just kinda like stopped and I was we had a little more context
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8/10 began slow but i loved how they ended it, more bleak for me than Eden Lake because you can truly never understand what’s going on or win
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Twisted, unsettling, depressing. Worth a watch if you love mind-bending horror.
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I know this one scared me because I just kept thinking about all the different times I woulda walked out of that house without looking back
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I don’t expect this movie but, this movie delivered horror and thriller. Jumpscare and twisted are so good 🤩🤩😍😍
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Movies so dark but how I like a horror movie to end
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The slow burn kills the premise and the strong performances, and the ending is just too disappointing.
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Buena película aveces confundía un poco final un poco esperado pero buena en general
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Didn’t realise until I had twenty minutes left of this film that the times it went completely silent were an issue with my headphones not a cinematic choice L
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Me parece interesante pero pudo ser mucho mejor
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Stop biting your nails!
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donub donub izlediyim fav film ola biler superdi her sey kesinlikle izlemelisiz (5 defe izlemisem)
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i mean I’ve seen better of mike’s but this one is just OK and i can easily guess the plot
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It’s a movie about a haunted mirror so there’s a cheesy element to it. One line in particular sticks out, “I bet you’re hungry.” Don’t look here if you want a light hearted horror…it is a nail biter though… ‘Dog’ lives, although is weirdly just let to run free into, I don’t know, the woods to get lost? Overall this was fine.
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Ma boy couldn’t even get 48 hours outside before his sister ruined his life again
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Got some pretty bad acting but the ending is really cool with the two timelines.
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I’ve been wanting to rewatch this for a while now, just wanted to have my own copy first. This being Mike Flanagan’s follow up to his first feature film, Absentia(2011) about a family who acquires an ancient mirror that appears to be cursed or evil. After prior events as children, both now older brother and sister return to confront the evil it had caused them when they were younger. I love the idea of an evil mirror. I also love…
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I can really see the blueprints of Hill House and Bly Manor in this, but my god does this have a lot more of a bleak ending than im used to with Flanagan. Also, the whole second half I had no idea what was happening, and that worked really well somehow. The pacing however, could definitely use some work. Goes from 0 to 100 real quick around halfway through.
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Seeing that this was one of Flanagan’s work I immediately knew I was getting into and that I would love it, however I do have one issue with this movie and that issue being that the first act felt unbearably slow and even boring, had this movie had a better paced or slightly more interesting first 30 minutes this could’ve easily been 5 star in my eyes; however oculus being Mike flanagan’s first(I think?) big screen movie it’s understandable that…
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I just love movies where no one wins I don’t know what else to say
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Good, not the best acting from the brother and sister seemed kinda tubi. Kinda predictable ending but its a good story.
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Mike did another great horror movie !
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I’m not ready for this!!! what a trick
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i’ve been victimized by mike flanagan’s menacery since i was a kid apparently.
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ending was bootycheeks to me but other than that it was alright honestly the apple scene freaked me out though
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I loved all the sequenses of the childhood events and the present twisting on each other, but like the ending was ass wtf was that, never got angrier at a film.
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“This is The Mirror That Drives You Mad And Wants To Kill You” “You’re going to keep that cover on it and bury it, right?” … “… right?”
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Momento but make it horror. Incredible editing and pace. Tension of this movie is unmatched.
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Seeing DV as a kid can really fuck you up I guess, let’s combine that with Home Alone shenanigans!! That’ll solve all our problems!
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Wasn’t that bad and then they flubbed the ending
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Man what a nostalgia trip. I credit this movie for so many nightmares.
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I can’t say anything else before acknowledging Kaylie’s hair. Like, she’s introduced with a cutscene of her fiercely walking while swinging her cunty ass ponytail. The movie got messy but that hair stayed laid through the whole thing. And the bangs to the side? That was a MASTERPIECE! Besides that I really wanted to give this a three and a half stars or even four but the ghosts threw me off a little bit. The story worked very well with…
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Ssabine 8 月 18, 2026
such a mean movie! there was another character-thinking-they’re-biting-into-a-normal-apple moment, echoing Society which i’d watched the night before. check your apples folks! was it just me or did the leads have folger’s incest commercial chemistry
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Expected one of the siblings to secretly already be dead
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You can never trust a mirror
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kinda confusing with the constant switching but a good movie overall. the jumpscares were on point
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it definitely scared me so i’ll give it that but that’s not a high bar
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Oculus follows siblings Kaylie and Tim Russell, whose childhood was destroyed after their father brought home an antique mirror called the Lasser Glass, which seemingly drove their parents insane and ultimately resulted in their deaths and Tim being institutionalized for killing his father. Years later, Tim is released believing the tragedy had rational explanations, while Kaylie has spent years researching the mirror and is convinced it is supernatural. She retrieves it and sets up cameras, timers, and a weighted anchor…
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Proof psychological horror can produce just as much slop as jumpscare horror. This movie feels like a YouTube short film stretched out to feature length. It spends an hour and a half building up to an extremely telegraphed and boring kill by sprinkling in lore that only serves to detract from its horror and repetitive scenes of dumb bitches arguing with and gaslighting each other or scenes where a bad thing appears to happen only for them to realize it…
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I will forever view that actor as the guy from the blue lagoon remake that I used to repeatedly watch
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Oculus is such a great film. I’m a huge fan of Mike Flanagan’s work. He has this incredible way of making horror feel like so much more than just horror. The storyline is so clever and interesting, and the actors did such a great job with their characters. Even though there aren’t many jump scares, his movies and series still have this eerie, unsettling atmosphere that makes them genuinely scary.
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Eres malvado Mike Flanagan.
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The way they tied together two timelines–the past and the present–was pretty creative
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Noch nie von dem Film gehört gehabt aber überraschend gut
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- Synopsis
- A woman tries to exonerate her brother's murder conviction by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon.
- Director
- Mike Flanagan
- Writer
- Mike Flanagan, Jeff Howard
- Studio
- MICA Entertainment, Intrepid Pictures, Blumhouse Productions, WWE Studios
- Country
- USA
- Language
- English
- Year
- 2013
- Runtime
- 104 mins
- Canada08 Sep 2013
- Portugal12 Sep 2014
- USA03 Apr 2014
- India10 Apr 2014
- Mexico16 Apr 2014
- Netherlands17 Apr 2014
- Singapore23 Apr 2014
- Lithuania24 Apr 2014
- Thailand30 Apr 2014
- South Korea29 May 2014
- UK12 Jun 2014
- Ireland13 Jun 2014
- Greece19 Jun 2014
- Brazil03 Jul 2014
- Portugal13 Sep 2014
- Spain03 Jun 2015
- Belgium08 Sep 2013
- Japan03 Jan 2015
- France15 Apr 2015
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