While renovating her new house, Dani (Carolyn Bracken) is violently murdered. A year later, her blind twin sister, Darcy (Carolyn Bracken), shows up at the house determined to punish Dani's killer by any means necessary. Dani's widower, Ted (Gwilym Lee), thinks Darcy is harmless if kind of a crackpot but soon can't explain the things she seems to know.
There are jump scares but no surprises. The villain is exactly who you think it is and that could have made for a really boring movie but it's saved by being stunningly well-executed. I think there's a particular dread? in the anticipation of something bad. You see something, you think "that's about to do something bad," and then it does, and your thoughts and feelings are validated and reinforced. Oddity has a cascading series of those moments, which feels vindicating especially if you've ever been told something is just your imagination playing tricks on you.
The characters have normal reactions to what's going on and that's always nice to see. Performances are great across the board, but special shout-out to Tadhg Murphy as Ollin Boole. I'll probably end up buying this one at some point. It feels like the kind of movie that I will enjoy making other people watch and feeding on their reactions.
Currently streaming on Shudder.
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