The women do the heavy lifting in "Oculus," this April's "Insidious," a complex and chilling big screen ghost story with serious date movie potential."Doctor Who" alumna Karen Gillan sheds her Scots accent and most outward signs of emotion as Kaylie, a young woman who went through something terrible and, she is convinced, something supernatural eleven…

A spooky 300-year-old mirror sits at the centre of this deeply silly and mildly effective horror movie

A dark force lurks in the looking glass in this paranormal outing that's a notch above, but barely.

Karen Gillan stars in this impressive psychological horror that cuts between past and present, writes Mark Kermode

In Mike Flanagan's Oculus, a brother and sister reunite at the site of their parents' gruesome deaths.

As is the case with so many recent horror movies, "Oculus" wastes an intriguing premise (reality-distorting mirror causes mayhem) and becomes a series of scenes designed to make an audience jump.

Movie's premise of a haunted mirror is difficult to accept.

This haunted-mirror horror flick is the most satisfyingly scary ghost story since “The Conjuring.”

Review: Why ‘Oculus’ Is One of the Scariest American Horror Movies In Years

For a horror movie, Oculus is surprisingly lean on the scares. It's more interested in playing tricks with perception and bending reality. Ambitious material for director/editor Mike Flanagan (expanding from his award-winning short) and, if he doesn'...

If you’ve just been discharged after 11 years in a mental institution, it’s probably not a great idea to join your sister for a night in the same house...

** Oculus This contrived supernatural thriller about the horror unleashed on a family by a demonic antique delves into the dark areas of family conflict, childhood abuse, and the unreliability of memory and perception. But it loses all credibility when its hall of mirrors trickery and bogus boogeymen take over. (104 min., R) (Peter Keough)

A brother and sister attempt to destroy the spirit-possessed mirror that killed their parents.

Director Mike Flanagan’s 'Oculus' thrillingly plays out as an almost-Lynchian duet between warring states of consciousness.