Official selection
SXSW 2024
Overlook Film Festival 2024
Jim Thorpe Independent Film Festival 2024
Chicago Critics Film Festival 2024
Seattle International Film Festival 2024
Honors
Midnighter Audience Award - SXSW 2024
Audience Award - Overlook Film Festival 2024
Director
Damian McCarthy
Producer
Katie Holly, Evan Horan, Mette-Marie Kongsved, Laura Tunstall
Writer
Damian McCarthy
Cast
Carolyn Bracken, Gwilym Lee
contact
IFC Films / Shudder / RLJE Films
“Brilliant, bespoke, and tightly entertaining… A richly imagined three-ring circus of genre concepts”– Alison Foreman, INDIEWIRE
“Really damn scary”– Mary Beth McAndrews, DREAD CENTRAL
“Genuinely and consistently unsettling… Has a cold, unpredictable aesthetic that makes it equally riveting and tense”– Brian Tallerico, EBERT.COM
Darcy (Carolyn Bracken, YOU ARE NOT MY MOTHER) is a blind medium blessed with genuine occult abilities. She runs an antique shop, secretly collecting haunted and cursed items. Through a chance encounter, Darcy begins to decipher terrible secrets about her twin sister’s unsolved murder. A murder once presumed to have been perpetrated by a patient from a nearby mental-health institution, who was soon afterwards himself found dead, his head crushed to pieces with only a glass eye remaining unscathed. With the otherworldly help of a nightmarish wooden mannequin, Darcy embarks on a fact-finding mission of supernatural retribution, opening doorways into pure horror.
Scary as hell and bursting at the seams with imaginative concepts and nerve-shredding jolts, ODDITY is the astonishing sophomore feature from Irish maestro Damian McCarthy (CAVEAT). Like a haunted house hall of mirrors crashing through a tense home-invasion thriller, the film is captivatingly told in a puzzle-out-of-sequence structure seemingly channeled directly from a fever dream. With breathtaking control, McCarthy conjures a bona fide symphony of dread through a darkly playful direction style that toys with the audience’s nerves like a wolf teasing prey. Bracken hits a multitude of knockouts in an unforgettable dual performance, complemented by a stellar cast that includes Gwilym Lee (BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY), Tadhg Murphy (THE NORTHMAN), Steve Wall (DUNE: PART 2) and newcomer Caroline Menton. Packed with ideas and armed with jet-black wit, ODDITY will have you firmly on the edge of your seat. It will revisit you at the edge of your nightmares. – Mitch Davis
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