ODDITY

IRELAND | 2024 | COLOR | DCP | 98’ | ENGLISH 

In a remote country estate in Ireland, a woman is found mysteriously murdered. On the night that marks one year since her unsolved death, her twin sister, a blind psychic who claims to know who committed the murder, visits the mansion. She is accompanied by a creepy ceremonial wooden doll... Coming out of nowhere, without any hype but practicing a demonic use of the devices that can freeze and terrify a theater audience, “Oddity” is an instant classic: A horror film that takes the genre's clichés, abrupt jolts and minor shock-inducing tactics, and serves them up so masterfully and effectively that no viewer can be prepared for what's about to happen.

DIRECTOR: Damian McCarthy
SCREENWRITER: Damian McCarthy
DoP: Colm Hogan
MUSIC: Richard G. Mitchell
EDITOR: Brian Philip Davis
PRINCIPAL CAST: Gwilym Lee, Carolyn Bracken, Tadhg Murphy, Caroline Menton, Steve Wall, Jonathan French, Joe Rooney

DAMIAN MCCARTHY
Irish director. He grew up in West Cork with liberal parents and a horror film-loving father, which influenced him to serve the genre ideologically. A student of the jump scare, this is his second feature length film.

FILMOGRAPHY
2024 Oddity
2020 Caveat