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ODDITY MOVIE REVIEW
We’ll never look at a terrifying, lifesize, wooden Golem the same ever again. Damian McCarthy’s second feature film, Oddity, has an incredibly simple and dread inducing setup. Carolyn Bracken plays Dani who’s renovating her home while her husband Dr Timmis, played by Gwilym Lee, works the overnight shift at the local mental institution. As she’s getting ready to wind down for the night, she hears a knock at the front door. As she opens the slotted peephole, Dani finds a scared one-eyed man (Tadhg Murphy) desperately asking her to let him in the house…because there is someone else in the house with her. We cut to a year later after Dani was found brutally murdered. As Dr. Timmis visits Dani’s twin sister, Darcy (also played by Bracken), she suggests that it wasn’t the one-eyed man that killed her sister, but someone else. Darcy has a special ability to touch objects and know the previous owner’s secrets which comes in handy when Dr. Timmis provides her with the one-eyed man’s glass eye. With the help of her abilities and an insanely creepy wooden Golem, Darcy sets out to uncover the mystery behind her sister’s death. Wright, Drew, and Lewayne gush over McCarthy’s storytelling and camera work as well as the fantastic acting in Oddity.
DIRECTED BY: Damian Mc Carthy
STARRING: Gwilym Lee, Carolyn Bracken, Tadhg Murphy, Caroline Menton, Steve Wall, Jonathan French
YOUR REVIEWERS
Wright Sulek (Screener Squad, Digital Noise, Highly Suspect Reviews, Trash in the Can, Audio Editor)
Wright hails from the northern suburbs of Dallas, Texas. His passion for filmmaking brought him to Austin to study and make movies. Since then he’s had his hand in acting, writing, and directing his own short films with numerous like-minded film geeks he’s met along his journey. His newest interest has brought him into the podcasting world. He co-hosted a few different movie related podcasts such as ‘And Now This’ and ‘The Match Cut’. He currently co-hosts with longtime friend, Eric Samaniego, where they talk shop about the grimiest, trashiest, lost gems of movies on their show, ‘Trash in the Can’. Wright also guests and hosts reviews on Screener Squad and Highly Suspect Reviews as well as co-hosts Digital Noise with Chris Cox.
Drew Tinnin (Screener Squad, Highly Suspect Reviews, Deliberations of Doom)
Drew Tinnin is a Rondo Award nominated interviewer and critic who has worked at SiriusXM’s Fangoria Radio and Fangoria magazine in NYC, as well as the London-based Dazed Digital. Currently a regular contributor to the Dread Central Network, he’s excited to join up with some old friends and other film fans on One of Us as a new contributor to Screener Squad.
Lewayne White (Screener Squad)
Lewayne’s earliest memories are of watching movies and reading comics, which instilled in him a sense of wonder, a vivid imagination, and unrealistic expectations. It also means he spends a lot of time watching movies, writing scripts for them, and trying to get them made. He lives in the middle of middle America after landing there as a child, and has remained there mainly because he hates packing.
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