Why watch Oddity
A woman weaponizes the supernatural itself—arming herself with cursed objects to hunt down her sister's killers. Oddity is a revenge thriller that treats haunted artifacts like ammunition, blending the grimy procedural tension of True Detective with the occult dread of A24's best work. Director Oz Perkins has crafted something genuinely unsettling: a film where every possessed item feels like a loaded gun, and every scene crackles with the question of whether Darcy is losing herself to the darkness she's summoning.
The film moves with surgical precision—98 minutes that never waste a beat. It's shot in cool, muted tones that make even daylight feel haunted, and Carolyn Bracken delivers a performance of quiet, consuming rage that rivals the intensity you'd expect from prestige television. The mystery unfolds methodically, layering clues and supernatural phenomena until you can't separate the two. This isn't jump-scare horror; it's the kind that gets under your skin and stays there.
This is for anyone who loved The Lighthouse, Lamb, or the best seasons of True Detective—viewers who want their horror cerebral and their revenge morally complicated. You'll finish tonight genuinely unsettled, replaying Darcy's final confrontation in your head, haunted by what she's willing to become.
— The What2Watch desk · US
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After the brutal murder of her twin sister, Darcy goes after those responsible by using haunted items as her tools for revenge.
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I'm always on the lookout for good horror. Oddity is almost "perfect". This could easily be a 7 or 8. Instead it's a 6, or maybe a 5. The final act just didn't work for me. The big reveal is fine, but what happens after the big reveal makes little sense to me. There's also a bit before the big reveal - let's call it the small reveal - where the logic just falls flat too, but I was willing to ignore it at the time.…Show more
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