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Topics: Film and TV, Rotten Tomatoes, Horror
Yasmeen Hamadeh
The title for scariest film of the year is one of the most honorable bestowments any movie could have - and this unassuming flick might be taking the cake for 2024.
This year has so far proven to be an exceptional moment for horror, from Michael Mohan’s Immaculate (starring Sydney Sweeney) to Osgood Perkins’ Longlegs (starring Nicolas Cage), taking over the box office and impressing both audiences and critics alike.
And while Longlegs might be the current horror movie everyone’s talking about, this independent Irish flick is easily giving it a run for its money.
Directed and written by Damien Mc Carthy, Oddity follows a blind medium (played by Carolyn Bracken) who is grieving the loss of her twin sister and decides to turn to seemingly haunted objects to help her find answers.
The film initially premiered at the SXSW Festival on March 8, 2024, where it swiftly elicited immense - positive - uproar among attendees and won the Audience Award for the festival’s Midnighter section.
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Oddity’s success among viewers has only continued since, with it currently boasting a critic score of 96 percent on review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes and an audience score of 89 percent.
And if you’re a fan of horror, you’ll know how rare it is for those scores to actually match each other when it comes to the genre.
Longlegs for example, has an 86 percent critic score and 62 percent audience score. So clearly, Oddity is doing something extremely right for both sides to be in agreement.
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“Oddity is THE scariest film of the year hands down. I screamed so loudly during one sequence… I didn’t even know a horror movie could still illicit that kinda reaction out of me still! Absolutely terrifying I loved it so much,” one user wrote on X.
“Also a man RAN down the steps and out of my theater before the title card even dropped, no joke… I really don’t blame him tho I was so scared throughout the whole film,” they continued.
Another added: “Oddity is definitely worth keeping on your radars & genuinely freaked me out on multiple occasions. It’s an atmospheric, dread inducing slow burn with chilling sound design, solid performances & highly effective jump scares. Go in blind. One of the best horror films of the year.”
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And a third commented: "It’s officially Oddity summer now."
While many were quick to declare 2024 a Longlegs summer, it seems that it may in fact be an Oddity summer through and through.