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Caveat director Damian McCarthy's latest indie horror movie, Oddity, has been generating a lot of buzz. The supernatural thriller was released in theaters on July 19, bringing to the audience the story of a blind occultist named Darcy, who is seeking revenge for the murder of her twin sister Dani, using haunted items.
The movie is currently a favorite with horror fans and has garnered a lot of critical as well as mass acclaim. Set in an isolated house that is located near an asylum in Ireland, Oddity features some intense jump scares and a bone-chilling plot that is sure to leave fans of the horror genre on the edge of their seats.
The cast list of Oddity explored
Gwilym Lee as Ted Timmis
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Gwilym Lee is a Welsh actor who is best known for his role in the psychological horror thriller Midsomer Murders (2013–2016). He has also starred in A Song for Jenny (2015), Jamestown (2017), Top End Wedding (2019), and The Great (2020–2023). Lee is particularly known for playing guitarist Brian May in the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody (2018).
In Oddity, Gwilym Lee plays Ted Timmis, who is a psychiatrist and whose wife, Dani, is brutally murdered while renovating the couple's newly acquired country house alone one night.
Carolyn Bracken as Dani / Darcy
Carolyn Bracken is from Nenagh, Tipperary, and she has been associated with acting since the age of four. She started her journey as a member of the local theater group, The Nenagh Players. After graduating from the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin, she began a full-fledged career as an actor. Bracken is known for starring in films like You Are Not My Mother and The Quiet Girl. Her television works include Balor Hall, Dublin Murders, Smother, and The Gone.
Carolyn Bracken plays twin sisters Dani and Darcy in the 2024 horror movie. Dani is the wife of psychiatrist Ted Timmis, and she becomes the victim of a brutal murder while she is renovating their newly acquired country house alone one night.
Darcy is a blind clairvoyant with psychometric powers and runs an oddity shop in Cork. Darcy arrives at Ted's house and brings with her a strange life-sized wooden mannequin from her own cabinet of curiosities. She plans to use it to uncover the truth behind her sister's murder.
Others in the cast list of Oddity
Lee and Bracken are joined by Tadhg Murphy as Olin Boole. Olin is one of Ted's former patients who visited Dani the evening she was murdered to warn her that a stranger had infiltrated their home. It is Olin who is ultimately convicted of the crime but is later found brutally murdered in his room in the psychiatric hospital.
Caroline Menton joins the cast as Yana, Ted's new girlfriend, after Dani is murdered. Steve Wall, Jonathan French, and Joe Rooney also join the ensemble cast in various roles.
More about Oddity, the new horror movie
Oddity opened in theaters on July 19, 2024, but it premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival on March 8, 2024, where it bagged the Audience Award in the Midnighter section of the festival.
The movie marks Irish writer-director Damian McCarthy's second feature. The paranormal horror film follows a grieving curio shopkeeper who is still mourning the death of her twin sister, who was murdered a year ago. She must find out how her sister died, and a wooden mannequin from her cabinet of curiosities becomes crucial in this quest to uncover the mystery of her sister's death.
Oddity is now playing in theaters.
