Tim Russell

Tim Russell

Background

Timothy "Tim" "Timbo" Alan Russell is a mental health patient at St. Aidan's Mental Facility in Fairhope, Alabama. His parents were Marie Russell and Alan Russell, but they are deceased and his sister is Kaylie Russell. He is 21 years old. His father was accused of murdering his mother and he was accused of murdering his father.

During the events of Oculus (2013) played by Brenton Thwaites and Garrett Ryan

Tim has a dream where he is in the role of his father, pointing the gun at Kaylie on the night their parents were killed. He tells Dr. Shawn Graham about his dream and how it is the first time where he is the one holding the gun. Dr. Graham tells him he believes that Tim has now accepted the guilt for the murder of his parents. Dr. Graham goes before a mental health board and requests Tim be released on his 21st birthday. Tim tells Dr. Graham, Kaylie is coming to pick him up and help him find a job. Dr. Graham tells Tim it is very important that he protect his recovery. Tim goes to the final locked door to leave and St. Aidan Security Guard tells him to pull the door when the buzzer goes off. Kaylie picks Tim up and during lunch, she tells him she would be happy if he stayed with her and Michael Dumont. She tells him she found the Lasser Glass and she says they need to keep their promise and destroy it. Kaylie drops Tim off at a hotel and tells him she is going to destroy the Lasser Glass tomorrow and asks for his help. Tim calls her and she asks if they can meet at their old house. He is already at the house when Kaylie walks in with Dog. He looks around the house and Kaylie tells him she inherited it after she turned 18 and was released from foster care. They bring the Lasser Glass into the house and put it in Alan's old office. He sees a large anchor hanging from the ceiling and Kaylie tells him it is her kill switch. She starts three camcorders and records herself giving an introduction of who she is and Tim. She then moves on to discussing precautions she has set around the house including alarms to remind them to eat and the kill switch that has to be reset every thirty minutes. She explains she is performing the experiment to prove the Lasser Glass is a supernatural entity.

As she is telling the history of the Lasser Glass, Michael calls her to check in on her and she asks him to call her every hour. She continues on with the history of the Lasser Glass going from Robert Clancy, Mary O'Connor, and Alice Carden. They stop to eat and she tells Tim she is making the recording to prove Alan wasn't a murderer. She continues with the history and mentions Tobin Capp, Marcia Wicker, Marisol Chavez and finally when it was purchased by Alan. She finishes the recording by saying her intent is to show none of the deceased were responsible for their actions, but were victims. Tim asks why they don't just smash the Lasser Glass now and Kaylie tells him he should. He walks up to it and pulls of the cloth covering, but stops before even trying. Kaylie brings up Oliver Jeffries who attempted to destroy the Lasser Glass, but after staring at it, walked into traffic. She tells Tim she is using Dog as a guinea pig and Tim recalls how Mason's condition deteriorated in the house as time went on. He tells Kaylie she is remembering what happened to Mason wrong, and he really died of Parvo. He tells her about the Fuzzy-trace Theory and believes that Kaylie is mixing memories. Kaylie reminds Tim about the woman she saw in Alan's office and Tim tells her, Alan was having an affair which drove Marie crazy. Kaylie accuses Tim of being brainwashed in the mental facility. Tim frees Dog and lets him out of the house and Dog runs away. He almost convinces Kaylie to turn everything off and leave when she notices the camcorders have moved and the plants in the office are dead. Tim pulls out his cellphone to call Dr. Graham and Kaylie tells him he has to use it in another room, outside of the Lasser Glass's influence. They go out of the office and notice more of the plants are dying. Tim appears to walk outside to make a phone call, but can't connect, he comes to and Kaylie tells him, he never left the house. As Kaylie is setting the camcorders back up, Tim notices the images they are recording are not what he is seeing with his eyes.

Kaylie stabs Michael in the neck with a piece of pottery. She and Tim go outside the house and when he tries to call 911, he gets the same voice as when Kaylie called 911 as children. They look back into the house and see themselves standing in front of the Lasser Glass. They go back into the office and a Glass Eyed Specter appears and Tim and Kaylie run away. They decide they have to try and destroy the mirror once more, but they get separated. Tim wakes up in front of the mirror and calls to Kaylie. He initiates the kill switch early and is then able to see a dying Kaylie impaled by the anchor in front of the mirror. Kaylie dies as the police arrive. Officer 1 asks Officer 2 to make sure that it was Tim that called 911, and Officer 2 confirms it was him and then he murdered Kaylie and Michael. As Tim is taken away by Officer 1 he screams it wasn't him, it was the Lasser Glass. As he looks back at the house, he sees his family as Glass Eyed Specters.