Speaker 1: Hey there, folks, it is Thursday, October the sixteenth. You
Speaker 1: do not have to take our word for it for
Speaker 1: our number sixteen on our Horror hit list, because this
Speaker 1: movie has a nearly perfect Rotten Tomato score. Welcome to
Speaker 1: this episode of Amy and TJ. We continue with our
Speaker 1: deep cuts our favorite horror movies that maybe you haven't
Speaker 1: heard of as we get closer and closer to Halloween.
Speaker 1: This one robes I was surprised, but that is not
Speaker 1: a joke. This has a nearly perfect rating.
Speaker 2: Yeah, ninety six percent critics score Rotten Tomatoes for our
Speaker 2: number sixteen movie on the list. Oddity, this is one
Speaker 2: of the newest ones that we've put on our list,
Speaker 2: and we put it on there just because I don't
Speaker 2: think that's a movie that a lot of people just
Speaker 2: would be able to quickly.
Speaker 3: Recall or know of or remember.
Speaker 1: Odi.
Speaker 2: It's not a movie that's on a lot of people's radar,
Speaker 2: and yet it's so good.
Speaker 1: I don't know how we I don't know. We watch
Speaker 1: everything new that kind of comes out, but I don't
Speaker 1: know why we were drawing to this one. And Oddity,
Speaker 1: even the name of this movie adds to some mystery,
Speaker 1: and it fits perfectly.
Speaker 3: It really does. So yes. This was released to twenty
Speaker 3: twenty four.
Speaker 2: It's an hour and thirty eight minutes and here's the
Speaker 2: synopsis for Oddity. When Danny is brutally murdered at the
Speaker 2: remote country house that she and her husband Ted are renovating,
Speaker 2: everyone suspects a patient from the local mental health institution
Speaker 2: where Ted is a doctor. However, soon after the tragic killing,
Speaker 2: the suspect is found dead. A year later, Danny's blind
Speaker 2: twin sister, Darcy, a self proclaimed psychic and collector of
Speaker 2: cursed items, pays an unexpected visit to Ted and his
Speaker 2: new girlfriend, Yanna. Convinced that there was more to her
Speaker 2: sister's murder than people know, Darcy has brought with her
Speaker 2: the most dangerous item from her curse collection to help
Speaker 2: her exact revenge.
Speaker 1: So good write up, so good, and we didn't I
Speaker 1: don't think we got all that information before we watched it,
Speaker 1: but now that you have it, it's kind of helpful
Speaker 1: because it is a bit of a slower burn that
Speaker 1: we'll we'll get into. But that's perfectly described.
Speaker 2: There are so many twists and turns, and maybe it
Speaker 2: was a little bit too much of a slow Burn
Speaker 2: because the audience scores seventy seven percent, which is still
Speaker 2: really high. It just it pales in comparison to the
Speaker 2: ninety six percent that critics gave it. But I would
Speaker 2: give this I would give this movie in the nineties
Speaker 2: for sure, how about you?
Speaker 1: Without a question, this is a it's so rare. It's
Speaker 1: almost a quiet movie that has a bunch of jump
Speaker 1: scares that just they're creepy Crawley moments of just subtle
Speaker 1: movements that scare the hell out of it.
Speaker 3: We watched it for the second time.
Speaker 2: We rewatched it for the purpose of this episode, and
Speaker 2: even though we knew what was going to happen, I
Speaker 2: still jump. You always laugh at me, but I have
Speaker 2: to put my If I have a drink, whether it's
Speaker 2: water or wine, I have to put it down because
Speaker 2: I will spill my drink on a movie like this.
Speaker 2: And you know what, This was released on Shutter, so
Speaker 2: the box office was nothing, basically one point eight million.
Speaker 2: And that's another reason why we really wanted to put
Speaker 2: it on the list, because you didn't go to the
Speaker 2: theaters to see this, and you might not have noticed
Speaker 2: it if it just was released on Shutter And you know,
Speaker 2: that name might not draw a lot of people in oddity,
Speaker 2: what's that about? And then just move on, which is
Speaker 2: what I think we might have done initially, But then
Speaker 2: we're so happy when we finally watched.
Speaker 1: Do people know about Shutter on Amazon? Brian?
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Speaker 2: is NonStop horror movies. I'm amazed at how many horror
Speaker 2: movies are made. It just there's an abundance. I feel
Speaker 2: like you can see five new ones every day, and
Speaker 2: most of them are pretty good, yes, but this one
Speaker 2: is exceptional.
Speaker 3: Oddity.
Speaker 2: The cast, Carolyn Bracken, plays both twins, so we get
Speaker 2: to meet the sister who was murdered beforehand, and then
Speaker 2: we get to meet the blind sister who comes to
Speaker 2: try and figure out what actually happened to her sister.
Speaker 2: But the other folks are not necessarily household names Willem Lee,
Speaker 2: Steve Wall, Joe Rooney, but these are all This is
Speaker 2: all set in Ireland, and the director, Damian McCarthy is Irish,
Speaker 2: and so it was shot in Ireland.
Speaker 3: The whole thing has just got this.
Speaker 2: It creates a feel, this isn't an Irish country home
Speaker 2: away from everyone else. I just love this setting and
Speaker 2: the fields of this movie.
Speaker 1: It takes you there in a lot of ways, in
Speaker 1: a place you don't want to be. This big, empty
Speaker 1: at a farmhouse almost on a mini castle.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like a renovated old farm castle house.
Speaker 1: It's gorgeous, but you wouldn't want to be there in
Speaker 1: the middle of the night by yourself walking around this place.
Speaker 1: And that's kind of the setting for so much of
Speaker 1: this creepiness. This is not a haunted house tail at all,
Speaker 1: but that place just serves as the setting, which is
Speaker 1: almost It needs to be remote, it needs to be dark,
Speaker 1: it needs to be old, it needs to be create.
Speaker 1: All of that stuff adds to these relics so good.
Speaker 2: So here's the critics consensus. And you mentioned it's not
Speaker 2: a haunted house. However, I like how they put it
Speaker 2: an elegant and spooky ghost story punctuated with clever jolts,
Speaker 2: oddity hues to the fundamentals of fright and achieves shout
Speaker 2: inducing results.
Speaker 1: Wow, that was the line of the So say the party.
Speaker 2: An elegant and spooky ghost story punctuated with clever.
Speaker 1: Jolts, clever jolts. That is a good way to put it.
Speaker 1: They were just smart, little, subtle, little nothing of a movie.
Speaker 1: You have to pay attention, and yes, it will creep
Speaker 1: you out.
Speaker 2: Because yes, as you mentioned, it's a quiet movie, so
Speaker 2: you really do have to be watching to catch some
Speaker 2: of these scary moments. There is one in particular that
Speaker 2: I get chills when I even think about it. It's
Speaker 2: so creepy. So I went through the critic reviews. This
Speaker 2: was the first time, Babe, I could not find a
Speaker 2: bad one in the critics reviews.
Speaker 3: I went through like three or four of the pages.
Speaker 2: All of them were positive, and I just picked some
Speaker 2: of the better ones that I thought really spoke to
Speaker 2: why we loved this movie as well. Oddity is a
Speaker 2: ghost story, a who Done It, a jump scare freakout,
Speaker 2: a twisty, slow burned psycho thriller, and a revenge saga
Speaker 2: all wrapped into one taut little horror film.
Speaker 1: You know, they make a Yeah, they make a bunch
Speaker 1: of good it. Don't you feel validated? Don't you love that?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: But this little nothing of a movie, if you will,
Speaker 1: that we just randomly found and love and wanted to
Speaker 1: put on the list. We had no idea that it
Speaker 1: had a nearly perfect run.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of these.
Speaker 2: I won't if we see something that we might want
Speaker 2: to watch, we won't even go on to ron Tomatoes
Speaker 2: because I don't want to have a preconceived note about
Speaker 2: what it's going to be. That I feel like that's
Speaker 2: somehow it almost always impacts the viewing if you have
Speaker 2: certain expectations and then you don't think it falls short.
Speaker 2: I think it's worse when something's highly reviewed, because then
Speaker 2: I have really high expectations. But so maybe we're doing
Speaker 2: a diservice to folks who are about to watch some
Speaker 2: of these kids. We're like, it's so good, and then
Speaker 2: they might not agree. But okay, here are some other
Speaker 2: sample critic reviews.
Speaker 3: It is Jews, it Jews. I can't say that a
Speaker 3: shoes it is shoes jump.
Speaker 2: Scares in favor of a more subtle and harder to
Speaker 2: pull off gradual escalation of unease and accretion of unnerving details.
Speaker 3: I can't.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm doing poorly and trying to figure out the
Speaker 2: verbiage of this particular critic.
Speaker 3: But he liked it.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: Oddity infuses originality into the classic gothic horror structure, but
Speaker 2: it shines the brightest in its masterful crafted home invasion scenes,
Speaker 2: which contains some of the most suspenseful movie moments of
Speaker 2: the year.
Speaker 1: The you know what we talk about. This is a
Speaker 1: slow burn, but it starts with a bang. It starts
Speaker 1: with action. Yeah, I forgot about that verse.
Speaker 2: Your heart is pounding because you don't know what's gonna happen,
Speaker 2: and you're not sure what happened, because then it fast
Speaker 2: forwards a year later and you're trying to piece it
Speaker 2: all together. Here's another critic review. For fans of quiet,
Speaker 2: subtle horror. This film covers all the bases, often emphasizing
Speaker 2: fear of the unknown through lingering shots of deep, unsettling
Speaker 2: shadows and almost imperceptible terrors.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, it's kind of one of those you walk
Speaker 1: into all your lights go out, you don't know what's
Speaker 1: right in front of you. There's a lot of that
Speaker 1: in this movie. To where you're looking at dark scene.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of any daylight scenes in this
Speaker 1: maybe when somebody pulls up into the house with a
Speaker 1: lot of darkness, but it's a movie and this whole
Speaker 1: big place. Yeah, you're looking in corners, just seeing what
Speaker 1: you're trying to see. There is a lot of that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: even the opening sequence, right, there's no electrician has a
Speaker 1: tent set up inside.
Speaker 3: Because they're renovating.
Speaker 1: Because they're renovating.
Speaker 2: They're renovating this farmhouse in the Irish countryside.
Speaker 3: Oh so good, all right.
Speaker 2: The audience reviews, I found a bad one, so I'll
Speaker 2: start with that one. The other two are glowing. But
Speaker 2: here's the bad one, which I thought was so interesting.
Speaker 2: I only found two or three of them.
Speaker 1: You agree with the criticism before, you.
Speaker 2: Know, because no, because they they all said the same thing.
Speaker 1: Though.
Speaker 2: The folks that didn't like it, the extremely good reviews
Speaker 2: are baffling to me. It's slow, nonsensical and uninteresting.
Speaker 1: What okay, it is slow. It is slow, it's nonsensical,
Speaker 1: it's a horror movie. Yeah.
Speaker 3: The last one was what uninteresting? That's that's insane.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was somebody on their phone while the movie
Speaker 1: was on in the background.
Speaker 2: Yes, and that's somebody. You had an expectation of a
Speaker 2: completely different movie. I think if you know what you're
Speaker 2: getting into, you know it's a slow build, but you
Speaker 2: know it's dramatic as hell and totally worth it in
Speaker 2: terms of payoff. In the end, this movie isn't phenomenal
Speaker 2: for us.
Speaker 1: We didn't know what the payoff was going to be,
Speaker 1: but every moment kept us wanting to watch the next
Speaker 1: moment we got more and more interested, invested, and curious.
Speaker 1: Yeah we this movie will take you from beginning to end.
Speaker 1: And it's a short one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's sweet. The acting and the cinematography alone are
Speaker 2: just worth a watch. Here are two other ones that
Speaker 2: I love that the audience totally agreed with us. It
Speaker 2: was pure art. They really know how to create suspense.
Speaker 2: One of the best films of my life, if not
Speaker 2: the best. I would really recommend everyone to watch it.
Speaker 1: Wow, not really feel validated.
Speaker 2: And then here's the final line from an audience member.
Speaker 2: Oddity starts with a deeply thriller vibe before catapulting viewers
Speaker 2: into pure nightmare fuel.
Speaker 3: I just said that this is right.
Speaker 2: The film's terror takes many forms, each more tantalizingly unbearable
Speaker 2: until the final flawless frame. Oh yeah, the praise is
Speaker 2: high for obvious reasons. So yeah, that one bad one.
Speaker 2: I was like, dude, do you not see that you're
Speaker 2: like an outlier? In a sea of people who were
Speaker 2: all just phraising this movie.
Speaker 1: That's okay, But to say it was unter not interesting
Speaker 1: at all, is.
Speaker 3: That was wild? All Right, We probably don't need to
Speaker 3: go over Wyatt made our list, but we'll talk about who.
Speaker 2: It's for, who it's not for, what to pair it with,
Speaker 2: where to watch it, and tease ahead to our next
Speaker 2: movie when we come back. Continuing now with our discussion
Speaker 2: of one of our favorite movies on the list, number sixteen, Oddity.
Speaker 2: It is a gem of a movie. It's as most
Speaker 2: of the movies on this list, it's quick, but it
Speaker 2: is is worth every minute and you need to pay attention.
Speaker 2: It made our list because of the incredible acting, the
Speaker 2: phenomenal plot twists. It really keeps you guessing, and it
Speaker 2: keeps you creeped out the entire time. There were you know,
Speaker 2: there are a lot of cool subplots that go beyond
Speaker 2: just the supernatural spookiness of it, just with the relationships
Speaker 2: that are unfolding.
Speaker 3: It's so good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a huge revenge plot in the middle of this.
Speaker 1: There's a I mean, there's a murder mystery in the
Speaker 1: middle of this, so and yeah, there's horror. This is
Speaker 1: a This is one the she pulls this off so well.
Speaker 1: This I'm not familiar with this actress. She is what
Speaker 1: she's wearing a but yeah, she's playing a blind woman,
Speaker 1: but she is carrying herself with this. She has a
Speaker 1: very subtle and understated strength and rage, like she's pissed,
Speaker 1: and it never comes through necessarily with emotion, but she
Speaker 1: delivers it in her performance.
Speaker 3: Almost in a dead pain. Carolyn Bracken is her name.
Speaker 2: She is, I mean she I think she should be nominated,
Speaker 2: or she should have been. I guess it was last year,
Speaker 2: so that ship has sailed. But I would absolutely think
Speaker 2: her performance was that good. So who is it for?
Speaker 2: If you are looking for an elevated horror movie, you know,
Speaker 2: I think sometimes you're not in the mood for one.
Speaker 2: You just want it to be campy and bloody. That's fine.
Speaker 2: This is an elevated horror movie experience. You want something
Speaker 2: more than just good kills, blood and guts. You want mystery, intrigue.
Speaker 3: Who done it? This is your movie?
Speaker 1: I'm trying to I don't want to. Yeah, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna give that away. I'm trying to think of how
Speaker 1: many people actually died in this movie. How many deaths
Speaker 1: that you actually see on screen? We won't give it away,
Speaker 1: but now I know you're thinking, and we know the
Speaker 1: number is low.
Speaker 3: It's a handful, but not a tremendous.
Speaker 1: Zo is low. Yeah, you say elevated, this is one
Speaker 1: definitely will always say you got to watch this at
Speaker 1: night because there's a lot of dark scenes and you
Speaker 1: need to see all those dark corners in the movie.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's I think this is almost is it
Speaker 1: an entry? It's for everybody? Anybody can stomach this no
Speaker 1: matter what you're I agree is but is it for
Speaker 1: everybody in terms of who has the do you want
Speaker 1: to sit for an elevated experience? If you're just coming
Speaker 1: into the genre, maybe.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's probably what mood you're in, because in my
Speaker 2: who's it not for? If you're looking for action or
Speaker 2: a fun horror flick, this isn't for you.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's a there is a creep factor
Speaker 1: that makes it fun. Right, you got your closest friends together,
Speaker 1: a few blankets in the middle of it.
Speaker 2: You think being scared is fun? Then yes, okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, Like, it's not like you know,
Speaker 2: if you want that fun like shark, crocodile whatever, Jason.
Speaker 2: Not an adventure, It's not that it's it's no, there's
Speaker 2: not like a lot of action.
Speaker 3: The man.
Speaker 2: It'll move you mentally.
Speaker 3: In a lot of ways.
Speaker 2: And yes, in terms of pairing it, I I do
Speaker 2: think this is when you want somebody with you. I
Speaker 2: wouldn't want to watch this movie by myself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because so much of the movie is somebody by
Speaker 1: themselves in this big house, yes, and creepy things going on.
Speaker 1: So no, I wouldn't recommend that.
Speaker 2: And if you have any like, I just feel like,
Speaker 2: if you have any artifacts in your home, any museum pieces,
Speaker 2: any like, just I don't want to give too much way,
Speaker 2: but if you have anything that could be considered that
Speaker 2: you might think could be haunted or came from some
Speaker 2: estate sale, I would.
Speaker 3: Not want to be around that. When I was watching
Speaker 3: this film, it would start to make me really concerned.
Speaker 2: But anyway, this is again in a cozy Irish mansion
Speaker 2: in the woods. So I was thinking you could do
Speaker 2: a whole Irish coffee, fish and chips, French onion soup,
Speaker 2: red wine. It's cozy, so you could just have some
Speaker 2: fun with what you pair with it. But who doesn't
Speaker 2: love a good Irish coffee?
Speaker 1: You know, here's when I was actually going to when
Speaker 1: you I'm trying to think like you do in putting
Speaker 1: to your pairing. This is a hot toddy movie.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, mulled wine. You could do all sorts of
Speaker 2: that is you say it all the time. You actually
Speaker 2: you take molling spices like there you can get them
Speaker 2: at Williams Sonoma or whatever.
Speaker 1: You're losing me even more, it's fine.
Speaker 3: Can you put it in a crock pot?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 2: You put some wine in it, and it's so delicious
Speaker 2: on a cold night. All right, So yes, watch this
Speaker 2: with someone in parrot, whatever you want with it, but
Speaker 2: it is fun to keep in the Irish theme of things.
Speaker 2: You can watch this Hulu, Disney Plus, AMC Plus. And
Speaker 2: as we mentioned, this is a shutter movie, so probably
Speaker 2: anywhere you can find Shutter, you can find oddity. But please, please, please,
Speaker 2: we hope you enjoy this as much as we did.
Speaker 2: This is such a special film, so our next movie
Speaker 2: tomorrow will be number fifteen. This one has had recent
Speaker 2: box office success. It too is highly reviewed. And this
Speaker 2: is another movie that involves a cautionary tale. When you
Speaker 2: rent an Airbnb, but man, does it take a twist.
Speaker 1: You will never rent another Airbnb if this is going
Speaker 1: on in there. And it also includes oh yes, one
Speaker 1: of our absolute favorite horror movie actress and we'll get
Speaker 1: into that. So excited about this next one. We appreciate
Speaker 1: you all joining us along this journey happy horror watching
Speaker 1: on behalf of my dear partner may be a robot.
Speaker 1: I'm TJ. Holmes. We will be seeing y'all soon