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Metascore
28 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90Village VoiceNick SchagerVillage VoiceNick SchagerReplete with superb performances led by a paranoid Sackhoff and unhinged Cochrane, it's the rare horror film to know how to tease malevolent mysteries and deliver satisfyingly unexpected, unsettling payoffs.
- 83The PlaylistDrew TaylorThe PlaylistDrew TaylorIt's easily the scariest movie since "The Conjuring," and in some ways is a deeper and more satisfying film. It's stylish but not showy, more concerned with the thematic undercurrents coursing just beneath the surface.
- 82Film.comFilm.comIt’s clean, lean and smart.
- 70VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyCleverly complex, if not quite as scary or memorable as one might have hoped.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe story's conclusion benefits from a closure that is satisfying despite — and even because of — its predictability.
- 63Slant MagazineEd GonzalezSlant MagazineEd GonzalezThrough a mini-triumph of montage, what begins as run-of-the-mill backstory vomit is thrillingly repackaged as an almost-Lynchian duet between warring states of consciousness.
- 63McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreMcClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreOculus earns its frights the old fashioned way — with convincingly traumatized characters, with smoke and with mirrors.
- 50Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyEntertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyUnless you’re Billy Bob Thornton, old furniture just isn’t all that scary.
- 40Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovOculus never quite resolves into the image of horror it clearly wishes to be. Kudos, though, to cinematographer Michael Fimognari and score composers, the Newton Brothers – all of whom provide a fertile audiovisual background for Flanagan’s film.