Parent reviews for Oculus

Oculus is an ingenious horror-thriller film. The dialogue, especially coming from the young protagonists, is very eloquent and the knowledge they elucidate about the post-traumatic situation that happened to their parents in the past is also quite captivating. Oculus is chalked-full of elaborate plot twists that stem from the mirror's dark influence, making you think if the young protagonist's perspective on every situation is either real or fantasy, or is something else causing it. This movie also makes you a participant in their multiple analogies, which is quite invigorating; therefore, making you self-analyze on their situation. The past, regarding their parents' complicated relationship and how it all came into a calamity after they placed the mirror in the man's office, is quite complex. Oculus is not for the faint-of-heart; Oculus contains graphic, disturbing imagery such as people that fall victim to the mirror's sinister influence, either from horrific accidents or suicide, with blood and gory wounds shown. Two children become embroiled in their parents' scuffle, which eventually escalates into sequences of violence and terror, caused by their parents' insanity due to the mirror's influences. There's also some brief strong language - a few uses of the f-word and other profanity, yet very infrequent. Oculus is a horror-thriller movie that brings something new to the table - no cheap horror movie cliches and brilliant acting. In my opinion, Oculus gives birth to a potentially new saga and genre that hopefully gets a sequel in the near-future. Hope you enjoy the movie!

Many bloody/gory scenes in one scene a character is forced to shoot a family member very sad but had to be done there are gory pictures children are in peril a father chokes his own daughter a father takes his possessed wife and tortures her by yelling slapping and neglecting her people are shot stabbed and tortured despite it all the kids care about eachother and do what ever it takes to protect eachother even the possessed mother and the possessed dad

In the movie Oculus there is a mirror from ancient London called the Lesser glass. A family in the year 2003 buys it and they hang it inside the office. The father goes to work and the glass starts messing with him. First he has a bandaid on because he was biting his nails and they started bleeding. He took the bandaid off but it appeared back on even tighter. Driven by the glass he got a staple remover and took his whole nail off, then continued doing his work on the computer. Later that day his young daughter Kaylee peakes in the mirror and sees a mysterious woman standing next to him. Later the mother goes in to confirm it and inside his notes “Marisol” is written all over. The father is addicted to the mirror and goes insane causing him to grab the already insane mother from looking into the mirror and chaining her to the wall. She eats glass and other insane stuff. The father tells the children “She is sick and they can’t go in.” That only works a couple of days until the daughter gets the nerve to go see. The father gets angry and sends them to their room. The next day Marisol appears in her real form. A blank figure with shining bright eyes next to their father. The children come in and see her and she quickly vanishes and reappears in front of their faces making them run upstairs. Later the daughter and son see the father and all the ghosts of the people the glass killed stand behind them. The father grabbed a gun and pointed it at the daughter’s head, the son grabs it and shakingly points it at him. He regains his sanity and says in a hurt voice “run” and bringing the sons hand holding the gun to his head, he pulls the trigger. They run outside. As all of this is happening the now adults of the children are checking out the home trying to get proof the father wasn’t the murderer. The mirror was. The mirror cut the power and tricked them for example, the daughter had an apple and was replacing light bulbs and the mirror turned the apple into a light bulb, but really it was still an apple and she realized she was hallucinating when the son came in and asked her what she was doing. Later in the end the daughter walks to the room, but her childhood office and sees her real mother in the mirror, she goes to hug her and she embraces her and the son can’t see the daughter because of the mirror’s tricks and goes to hit the kill switch, which Is an anchor attached to a timer meant so smash the mirror, but what happens is that the anchor drops and impales the daughter’s head. The mirror needs life to get energy and the son getting tricked into killing the daughter is what gave it its energy. The son ran outside to the police who dragged him to a police car, the scene switched off between him as a child and adult yelling, “The mirror did it!” He looks back to see the father, the mother, and his sister standing in the window embracing as a real family. The moral is that the Lesser Glass will always kill someone no matter what. I would recommend this for mature 13 year olds, or anyone who loves a good scare. The suspense was there, from the demonic mother crawling down the stairs, to Marisol appearing in the doorway. If you aren’t mature wait until you are 14-15 although it is rated R just for disturbing images.

An excellent psychological creppy thriller that doesn't dissapoint. Far as content goes there are a few possible muttered F words and a few disturbing scenes with some blood but nothing over the top.