{"id":17987,"date":"2025-10-14T21:00:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T01:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17987"},"modified":"2025-10-12T17:18:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T21:18:49","slug":"oddity-2024-damian-mccarthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17987","title":{"rendered":"Oddity (2024, Damian McCarthy)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/17985\">second movie<\/a> this week where someone runs a cursed antique shop &#8211; in this case it&#8217;s the blind sister of &#8220;Brian May&#8221; Ted&#8217;s murdered wife (Carolyn Bracken, playing both sisters, was my mother in <em>You Are Not My Mother<\/em>).  On the anniversary of her sister&#8217;s death, Blind Darcy comes over bearing cursed antiques for the husband and his new hotgirl (&#8220;Do I look stupid?&#8221; &#8220;I have no idea what you look like.  You sound stupid.&#8221;)  Backstory ensues, the argument of whether Asylum Olin with weird eyes (who also had weird eyes in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/15094\">The Northman<\/a><\/em>) or Asylum Ivan (<em>The Hole in the Ground<\/em>) actually did the murder is academic, since the husband definitely ordered it.  The hotgirl and blind sister both die, the husband can&#8217;t help himself from ringing the little bell he was gifted, leading to the best final shot of the season.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/oddity1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/oddity2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/oddity3.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My second movie this week where someone runs a cursed antique shop &#8211; in this case it&#8217;s the blind sister of &#8220;Brian May&#8221; Ted&#8217;s murdered wife (Carolyn Bracken, playing both sisters, was my mother in You Are Not My Mother). On the anniversary of her sister&#8217;s death, Blind Darcy comes over bearing cursed antiques for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2643,1127,395,3446,54,144],"class_list":["post-17987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-asylum","tag-blindness","tag-damian-mccarthy","tag-horror","tag-revenge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18037,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17987\/revisions\/18037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}