Horror director Damian McCarthy enjoys the dusty, the lived-in, the tactile. He shot his first film, “Caveat,” and his buzzy new second feature, “Oddity” in a spacious converted barn in his native Ireland, and every nook and cranny bounces light like a real-life, if slightly dingy, manor.
“Oddity,” from IFC Films / Shudder, is filled with artifacts from the past, as a woman who is blind named Darcy (Carolyn Bracken) tries to find out who killed her sister using the objects from her store of haunted items — including an imposing wooden man. The result is a mysterious film that dabbles in the occult and has been engaging audiences
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