Movie - Oddity (2024)

 

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Alone one night, Dani Odello-Timmis, the wife of psychiatrist Ted Timmis, is brutally murdered while renovating the couple's newly acquired country house. Olin Boole, one of Ted's former patients, visited Dani that evening, warning her that a stranger had infiltrated the home. Olin is believed to be the murderer, and is later found, murdered in his room in the halfway house, by Declan Barrett.

One year later, Dani's twin sister Darcy Odello, a blind clairvoyant with psychometric powers, is visited by Ted at her Cabinet of Curiosities shop in Cork, and the two make plans to visit again. Several days later, Darcy arrives unexpectedly at the country house where Ted now resides with his new girlfriend Yana, a pharmaceutical representative. Preceding Darcy's arrival is the shipment of a large crate containing a strange life-sized wooden mannequin.

Ted departs to his night shift at the hospital, leaving Darcy alone with Yana, who wishes to leave but is prevented from doing so when her car keys vanish. Yana is frightened when she notices the mannequin inexplicably moving positions, and drops her cell phone from an upstairs landing, destroying it. Upon examining the mannequin, Yana finds several strange objects inside holes in its head, including photographs of Dani and Darcy, locks of hair, a tooth, and a vial of blood. After observing what appears to be Dani's apparition in the house, Yana panics and manages to flee after finding her car keys inside the crate the mannequin was transported in.

Ted returns to the house to find Darcy alone upstairs. Darcy reveals to Ted that she knows he was responsible for Dani's murder. She reveals that she killed Olin to avenge Dani, but, upon performing a psychometric reading of Olin's glass eye, she discovered he was in fact innocent. Rather, it was Ted who arranged Dani's murder, enlisting the help of Ivan, a brutish orderly at the psychiatric hospital. Olin overheard discussions between Ted and Ivan regarding the plan to kill Dani, and upon his planned release from the hospital, he arrived at the house that evening to warn Dani.

To prove his innocence, Ted tells Darcy he is going to meet with the investigator who presided over the case and have the investigator phone her to explain the evidence. Ted returns to the hospital and calls his cell phone. While Darcy goes to retrieve it, she falls through a trap door that Ted removed, landing on the stone floor below. At Ted's command, Ivan visits the house to ensure Darcy's fate, only to be stalked and brutalized by the wooden mannequin, which Darcy appears to supernaturally animate before succumbing to her wounds.

Sometime later, Ivan, having survived the attack, is committed to the psychiatric hospital by Ted. To ensure that Ivan does not confess to Dani's murder, Ted sets free a violent cannibal in the hospital who kills Ivan. Ted returns to the country house, where he now resides alone; Yana broke off their relationship, disturbed by Ted's nonchalance that both Dani and Darcy died in his home. On the doorstep, Ted finds a small box delivered from Darcy's oddities shop. Inside is a call bell that Darcy had earlier shown him, which she indicated was haunted by the ghost of a bellhop who died in a local hotel and kills whoever rings it. Ted defiantly rings the bell, and momentarily observes his surroundings with no indication of the spirit. As Ted begins to relax, he is unaware of the bellhop's spirit standing behind him.