Oddity

Alone one fateful night, Dani Odello-Timmis, the devoted wife of psychiatrist Ted Timmis, meets a gruesome end while attempting to renovate their newly acquired country house. The tension escalates when Olin Boole, a troubled former patient of Ted, makes an unexpected visit to warn Dani of an ominous presence that appears to have infiltrated their home. Claims of Olin being the murderer arise when he is later found dead in his room at a halfway house, a grim discovery made by Declan Barrett.

Fast forward one year later, and the haunting echoes of that tragedy linger. Darcy Odello, Dani’s twin sister and a blind clairvoyant gifted with psychometric abilities, experiences a visit from Ted at her quirky Cabinet of Curiosities shop in Cork. Their meeting plants the seeds for a return visit—little does Darcy know, the future holds unforeseen horrors. Shortly after, Darcy arrives unexpectedly at the country home where Ted now resides with Yana, his new girlfriend who works as a pharmaceutical representative. Adding to the eerie atmosphere, a mysterious crate filled with a life-sized wooden mannequin has been sent to the house.

As the night unfolds, Ted departs for his hospital night shift, leaving Darcy alone with Yana, who inexplicably feels trapped when her car keys go missing. Yana’s initial discomfort escalates into terror as she witnesses the mannequin inexplicably shifting its position. In her frantic attempts to call for help, Yana accidentally drops her phone from an upstairs landing, shattering her only means of communication. The discomfort only grows when she inspects the mannequin, discovering unearthed secrets hidden away—photographs of both Dani and Darcy, locks of hair, a tooth, and a vial of blood nestled in its head.

As Yana experiences what seems like Dani’s ghostly apparition, panic takes hold, leading her to find her keys at the bottom of the crate suddenly revealing a route of escape. Upon returning, Ted finds Darcy upstairs alone. In an alarming emotional exchange, Darcy confronts Ted, exposing her chilling insight that he was behind Dani’s murder. The shocking truth unravels as Darcy confesses her own violent retribution—she killed Olin but later learned through a psychometric reading that he was, in fact, innocent. It becomes apparent that Ted, in collusion with Ivan, a brutish orderly from the psychiatric hospital, conspired to eliminate Dani. Olin’s intrusion that night was a desperate attempt to warn her.

To assert his innocence, Ted insists he will contact the investigator associated with the case and arrange for Darcy to receive a call explaining the evidence. Yet, Ted’s deceptive intentions are cloaked in shadows, as he heads back to the hospital and searches for a cell phone—Darcy dutifully ventures to retrieve it only to fall through a trapdoor previously tampered with by Ted, landing painfully on the stone floor below. As events spiral further into chaos, Ted’s henchman Ivan is summoned to secure Darcy’s unforgiving fate, but instead, becomes the target of the mannequin’s supernatural wrath—seemingly animated by Darcy’s out-of-body influence, he is brutally attacked and left for dead.

Days later, Ivan’s survival is short-lived; he is committed to the psychiatric hospital by Ted, who schemes to silence him permanently by unleashing a savage cannibal within the facility, resulting in Ivan’s brutal demise. Ted, now left alone in the country house, faces the unsettling reality that Yana has distanced herself from him, horrified by his indifferent acceptance of the deaths linked to his home. On a fateful day, Ted receives a peculiar package from Darcy’s shop, containing a sinister call bell, which she had previously claimed was haunted by a bellhop’s vengeful spirit, destined to kill anyone who rang it. Defiantly, Ted rings the bell, expecting normalcy, only to be blissfully unaware of the malevolent spirit lurking behind him, biding its time as he unwittingly invokes its chilling power.

Last Updated: November 25, 2024 at 19:24