Oculus (2013)
A sister and brother return to their childhood home to destroy a cursed mirror.
Genre
Characters/Groups
Tim Russell - Brenton Thwaites
Marie Russell - Katee Sackhoff
Young Kaylie - Annalise Basso
Young Tim - Garrett Ryan Ewald
Michael Dumont - James Lafferty
Dr. Shawn Graham - Miguel Sandoval
St. Aidan Security Guard - Michael J. Fourticq
Mark (Supervisor) - Justin Gordon
Officer 1 - Brett Luciana Murray
Virginia Lasser - Stephanie Minter
Beatrice O'Connor - Allison Boyd
Marcia Wicker - Alexandra Beer
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Detailed Synopsis
Kaylie Russell, Tim Russell, Marie Russell, Alan Russell and their dog Mason (Oculus)|Mason move into a new house at 2705 Hawthorne Way. Mason barks as the movers move a large mirror, the Lasser Glass, into the house, which they bring into Alan's office. At night, Marie tells Alan she thinks her C-Section scar is more noticeable than it was previously. While Alan is getting a late night drink, he sees a Glass Eyed Specter staring at him, but then it disappears. Marie goes to water her plants and notices they are all wilted. While Kaylie is playing she thinks she sees Alan in his office with a woman. During dinner, Alan seems distant and chews on his fingernail until his finger bleeds. Kaylie asks him who the woman was in his office and he denies knowing what she is talking about. Alan is working when he takes off his band aid he had put on after chewing on his fingernail. After a few seconds, he looks down and it appears the band aid is still on his finger. He struggles to pull it off and comes to his sense after realizing he pulled off his fingernail. He sees a book on the ground and accuses Kaylie and Tim of messing with his office, which they deny and he also accuses them of messing with the plants. Marie tells Alan the guy he just bought makes her feel less safe. As she is walking away, she thinks she hears Alan call her a grotesque cow, which he denies saying. She wakes up to Alan out of bed and Mason barking at the closed office door. She and Alan start to fight over him constantly being in the office and the next day, before leaving to play golf with a client, Alan tells Kaylie and Tim not to go into his office. Mason starts barking at the office door again and Marie locks him inside the office and he starts to whimper. When Alan gets home, he opens the door to his office, and Mason is not inside anymore. During the night, Marie accuses Alan of talking with a woman in the office. While vacuuming, Marie just starts staring at the Lasser Glass and makes only burned toast for dinner. Marie asks Kaylie about the woman in the office and Kaylie lies and says she hasn't seen her. Tim says he has and says he saw her last night on the stairs and he thinks she lives in the office. Marie goes into the office and sees a piece of paper with the name Marisol written on it over and over again. She throws a pen stand which barely misses the Lasser Glass, and is suddenly hit by a psychic force. She looks in the mirror and her C-Section scar appears like an open wound. She screams and when Tim and Kaylie run to the office, Marie starts to choke Tim. Tim gets away and he and Kaylie run and lock themselves in a room. Alan comes home and Marie attacks him. Alan chokes her until she goes unconscious and at first tries to call 911, but whispering voices in his ear tell him, everything is fine and he hangs up. He grabs chains and tells Kaylie to go to bed.
Eleven years later, 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. Kaylie walks in to an auction room as Auctioneer is closing bids on an item. Kaylie walks up to Michael Dumont and greets him and the Auctioneer presents the next item up for bid, the Lasser Glass mirror. Tim tells Dr. Graham, Kaylie is picking him up and offered to help him get a job. Dr. Graham tells Tim it is very important that he protect his recovery. During the auction of the Lasser Glass, Skype Worker tells Auctioneer that someone has given an online bid for $16,000, and that bidder eventually wins the auction. Tim goes to the final locked door 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. 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. That night, Kaylie has a dream of the Lasser Glass and Alan choking her. The next day, Michael makes a comment about Kaylie printing out graphic crime scene photos on the work printer and notices she put in an order to transfer the Lasser Glass, and she tells him it is to repair it. She apologizes how things have become weird lately and assures him things will go back to normal in a couple of days. Kaylie tells Warren, the buyer wants his personal inspector to see the piece before it ships. After Warren leaves to get moving pads, Kaylie pulls off the sheet covering the mirror and starts to apparently see antiques move. Mark (Supervisor) has Kaylie sign the transfer order for the Lasser Glass and Tim calls her and she asks if they can meet at their old house. As she leaves work, she walks by a plant in the warehouse that has wilted. Tim is already at the house when Kaylie walks in with Dog (Oculus)|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 her father 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. She gets a call from Michael and answers the phone. 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.