And in Oculus, it is literally just that. Viewers are quickly drawn into the unsettling and well-acted story (*** out of four; rated R; opens Friday nationwide) of a haunted antique mirror that ...

A remake of an earlier short — shot by Flanagan on the cheap in and around Baltimore in 2005 — “Oculus” is the story of a haunted antique mirror, known as the Lasser Glass. Over the ...

An expansion of the award-winning short film by Mike Flanagan and Jeff Seidman, “Oculus” will tell the ... is convinced that the strange, ornate mirror that hung in her father’s study ...

Mirror, Mirror, on the wall ... As it was largely laid out during a fitful explanation in the first half of 2013’s Oculus, the Lasser Glass is at least 400 years old, and its unmistakably ...

At its best, “Oculus” is a tightly enacted chamber drama that just happens to include supernatural phenomena. The mirror is messing with them at every turn — and, by extension, it’s ...

The evil mirror in the clever but off-putting horror film “Oculus” looks like the sort that a wicked fairy-tale queen would cackle at herself in. It wears a malevolent-looking curly black ...

Similarly chilling is the implication that the Russell's pater bought the mirror as a symbol of his clan's upward mobility. Viewed through this lens, it's possible to see Oculus as a kind of ...

In “Oculus,” instead of the Overlook Hotel, we get a 18th century baroque mirror named the Lasser Glass. Instead of plot and character, we get a one-note gimmick (“The mirror is E-V-I-L!”), ...