Move over, Longlegs.
A new Irish movie is being dubbed “the scariest film of the year hands down”.
That horror thriller is titled Oddity and hails from Cork based writer-director Damien Mc Carthy, whose debut feature Caveat creeped us out back in 2020.
Premiering in the UK this month, the plot synopsis for the filmmaker’s latest movie reads:
“When Dani (Carolyn Bracken, The Quiet Girl) is brutally murdered at the remote country house that she and her husband Ted (Gwilym Lee, Bohemian Rhapsody) are renovating, everyone suspects a patient from the local mental health institution, where Ted is a doctor. However, soon after the tragic killing, the suspect is found dead.
“A year later, Dani’s blind twin sister Darcy (also Bracken), a self-proclaimed psychic and collector of cursed items, pays an unexpected visit to Ted and his new girlfriend, Yana (Caroline Menton). Convinced that there was more to her sister’s murder than people know, Darcy has brought with her the most dangerous items from her cursed collection to help her exact revenge.”
As you may have guessed from the header image of this article, one of Darcy’s cursed items is a creepy life-sized wooden mannequin.
Also featuring amongst its cast, Joe Rooney (Father Ted), Steve Wall (Dune: Part Two) and Tadhg Murphy (The Northman), Oddity has so far earned a whopping 96% critics score and 85% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Its claustrophobic setting, its inventive story structure and its unnerving atmosphere have been singled out for particular praise.
Many viewers have even taken to social media to dub Oddity one of the best horrors of the year, if not the best.
You can read a handful of these Tweets right here:
Oddity is THE scariest film of the year hands down. I screamed so loudly during one sequence… I didn’t even know a horror movie could still illicit that kinda reaction out of me still! Absolutely terrifying I loved it so much
— Shawn (@ShawnMansfield) July 19, 2024
You won't find a better horror movie this year than Oddity. Don't watch a trailer. Don't read a synopsis. Book your tickets. https://t.co/frFJRpPt85
— Will (@SilentDawnLB) July 19, 2024
Great to see Oddity getting some well earned praise. Legitimately one of the scariest horror films of the year that does an excellent job of creeping under the skin pic.twitter.com/mMbQ4UCRyO
— Matt Konopka (@KillerCritics) July 22, 2024
Oddity has some of the best jumpscares in a while and they never get old. Actually freaked me out a lot very effectively. It’s not cheap either, it’s got a very cool and consistent tone of dread from the very beginning. So cool and simple. Maybe horror of the year so far.
— joe bro (@jbromovies) July 23, 2024
I am super psyched at Longlegs’s surprise success. If you’re still in the horror mood, I strongly suggest Oddity, which is out this weekend. Currently my favorite genre movie of the year. Supernatural revenge flick and that’s all you need to know going in.
— Eric Vespe (@EricVespe) July 19, 2024
Oddity was released in the United States last month.
Some UK viewers will get a chance to see the highly-anticipated horror thriller when it premieres at the Edinburgh International Film Festival on 16 August.
A date for Oddity’s general UK cinema release has not yet been confirmed.
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