Irrelevant But Awesome

Joel:  What makes this movie work is the confidence that the movie has in itself and its ability to scare the audience. It’s very easy for a horror movies to use a loud, sudden piano bang when a monster jumps at the screen to give a quick jolt to the audience, but that’s not really impressive. What’s much more impressive, and much harder to accomplish, is a spooky, uncomfortable vibe that goes through the movie, keeping the audience tense so that feeling of genuine fear is present. Oculus has very few if any of those jump scares. Instead, it opts to take advantage of a disjointed narrative that weaves two separate stories from two separate time periods together to keep the audience enraptured with the movie. Going back and forth between the two times as freely as the movie does give you a distorted perception of reality, much like the one that the main characters are experiencing throughout the movie. It’s scary, and unnerving to watch. It’s not always easy for a movie to ac...