Oddity

Oddity

Credits
Title:	Oddity
Director:	Damian Mc Carthy
Writers:	Damian Mc Carthy
Producers:	David Horwitch; Piero Frescobaldi; Michelle Craig; Yvonne Donohoe; Emily Gotto; Samuel Zimmerman; Nicolas Lazo; Laura Tunstall; Katie Holly; Evan Horan; Lisa Kelly; Mette-Marie Kongsved
Composer:	Richard G. Mitchell
Cinematography:	Colm Hogan
Editors:	Brian Philip Davis
Production
Production company:	Keeper Pictures Shudder
Distributed by:	IFC Films RLJ Entertainment
Released:	March 8th, 2024
Rating:	R
Running time:	98 min.
Country:	Ireland
Language:	English
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Oddity is an Irish feature film of the supernatural thriller subgenre of horror. It was written and directed by Damian Mc Carthy. It was produced by Keeper Pictures and distributed through IFC Films. It premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival on March 8th, 2024. The film stars Carolyn Bracken in the dual role of twin sisters Dani Timmins and Darcy Odello. Gwilym Lee plays Dani's widower, psychiatrist Ted Timmis. A year after Dani Timmins' is brutally murdered allegedly by one of Ted's patients, her blind psychic sister Darcy comes to Ted's house bearing a strange gift - a large wooden golem. While there, Darcy learns more about what actually happened on the night of her sister's murder, as Dani's ghost appears to haunt the large country estate.

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Cast[]

Actor	Role
Carolyn Bracken	Dani Timmins/Darcy Odello
Jonathan French	Declan
Steve Wall	Ivan
Joe Rooney	Bernie
Gwilym Lee	Ted Timmis
Tadhg Murphy	Olin Boole
Caroline Menton	Yana
Ivan de Wergifosse	Wooden man
Shane Whisker	Bellhop
Joshua Campbell	Patient
Austin Lawlor	Patient
Peter McCarthy	Patient
Fiach McHugh	Patient
Patrick Mullins	Patient
Jim O'Donnell	Patient
Inma Pavon	Nurse
Leticia Lopez Ramos	Nurse
Chris Mudrack	Orderly
Eileen McCarthy	Cleaner
Evan Horan	Weatherman

Notes & Trivia[]

The tagline for this film is "Every murder lives on".
There are a total of twenty credited cast members in this film.
Scenes of the manor house were filmed in County Cork, Ireland.
Oddity was also screened at the Overlook Film Festival on April 5th, 2024, then at Fantasy Filmfest in Germany on April 18th, 2024 ,then at the Seattle International Film Festival on May 13th, 2024.
Oddity was released on Blu-ray by RLJ Entertainment on October 22nd, 2024.
Executive producer Nicholas Lazo is credited as Nicolas Lazo in this film.
Nicolas Lazo and Samuel Zimmerman are both executive producers for Shudder.
Producer Evan Horan makes a cameo appearance in the film as a weatherman.
On Rotten Tomatoes, Oddity has a 96% certified fresh Tomatometer score based on 118 critic reviews. It has 113 positive reviews and 5 negative reviews. It has a Popcornmeter score of 78% based on more than 1,000 user ratings, averaging 3.8 out of 5.
On Letterboxd, Oddity has a weighted average review score of 3.43 out of 5 based on 112,933 user votes.
The concept of the wooden man is largely inspired by the Jewish folklore of the golem, which is a large clay figure that comes to life.
The items found inside the holes in the wooden man's head are a lock of hair, a tooth, a photo of the twin sisters as children, a photo of the twin sisters as adults and a vial of blood. These may be the ingredients needed to animate the wooden man through witchcraft, seeing as it was explained that in the past a witch gifted it to the mother of the twins.
The apparition that appears at the end is the ghost of the bellboy that was described by Darcy in her curio shop. The object that Ted finds is the cursed hotel bell, which when rung, summons the ghost of the bellboy. The scene implies that Ted dies shortly thereafter.
Darcy's hand gestures as she lays dying implies that she has some knowledge of witchcraft, or at the very least, the occult, as she is able to animate the wooden man to attack Ivan.
The 2013 film short How Olin Lost His Eye is a prequel story that features the character of Olin Boole, and was written, directed and produced by Damian Mc Carthy.
Director Damian Mc Carthy also directed the 2020 feature film Caveat.
Oddity was named #15 on Bloody Disgusting's Top 15 Best Horror Movies of 2024.

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