My Review of Oddity (2024)

 

Written And Directed by Damian McCarthy 

Darci: "Curses are lifted at the time of purchase."

Yesterday I reviewed Damian McCarthy's debut Caveat (2021) and today, I'm gonna talk about his second one. These movies aren't connected to one another by the way. This one had a very different story.

The opening scene had a married couple - a psychiatrist named Ted Tinnis (Gwilyn Lee) and his wife, Dani (Carolyn Bracken). They're doing up a nice house in the middle of nowhere. Dani's at the house by herself one night when she encountered Olin Boole (Tadhg Murphy).

A year later and it turned out that Dani was murdered and Olin was the main suspect. Ted moved on to a new girlfriend named Yana (Caroline Menton) and the latter didn't particularly care for the fact that Ted had kept the house where his wife had been murdered. 

Yana was also less keen on the presence of Dani's twin sister, Darcy (Carolyn Bracken). It turned out that Darcy wasn't convinced that Olin killed Dani and wanted to track down the real killer. Yana just wanted to be as far away from Darcy as possible. Yana might have been the only sensible one here.

Taking some notes from his previous movie, once again we've got a killer husband. It turned out that Ted was cheating on Dani with Yara and hired creepy Ivan (Steve Wall) to do the job. Darcy tried to use a Golem in order to get revenge/justice but overestimated her brother in law.

The Golem plot was handled pretty well as it had been seeded throughout the movie along with Darcy's own abilities. There's hints of a comeuppance of sorts or Ted when he foolishly decided to ring a call bell. 

- I do like that the movie made an effort to make both Dani and Darcy look different from one another.

- We can add cannibalism to this movie as Ted managed to find cannibal to get rid of Ivan.

- There's more backstory for the character of Olin in a short film called How Olin Lost His Eye (2013).

- Chronology: Present day West Cork, filmed in the same location as the previous movie.

Oddity (2024) was definitely the stronger movie. I think Damian McCarthy really nailed the tension with all the characters and even delivered a stronger ending as well. He's an interesting voice for the Irish horror genre.

Rating: 7 out of 10