Oddity (2024)

On a rain-lashed night in a recently purchased rural house, Dani Odello-Timmis works alone on renovations when her life is violently ended. The attack comes without warning; someone moves through the rooms and Dani is left dead in the property she and her husband, psychiatrist Ted Timmis, have just taken possession of. Neighbors later describe the scene as brutal. That same evening Olin Boole, a troubled former patient of Ted's, arrives at the house and urges Dani to be careful, insisting that a stranger is inside. Olin departs and, in the days that follow, suspicion falls upon him as the police investigate. Declan Barrett, who checks in on residents at a halfway house, locates Olin in his room with his skull smashed beyond recognition; Declan discovers the corpse and reports the discovery. Olin is publicly treated as the likely assailant of Dani, the apparent intruder who visited that fatal night.

A year passes with the case unresolved in the way Dani's family wants. Darcy Odello, Dani's twin sister, now runs the Cabinet of Curiosities that belonged to their mother in Cork. Darcy is blind and possesses psychometric abilities: when she touches personal objects she experiences vivid images of their owners' lives. She traffics in oddities and cursed items and she lives with grief that never lifts. Ted, who has moved back into the country house and begun a relationship with Yana, a pharmaceutical sales representative, pays Darcy a visit. He brings a small parcel: Olin's glass eye, recovered from the scene where his body was found. Darcy had asked for the eye so she could "read" it and gain some closure. Ted also examines a battered hotel call bell displayed among Darcy's wares and laughs at her claim that its ring calls a murderous bellboy's spirit--Darcy insists the bell carries the ghost of a bellhop who kills anyone who rings it, but Ted scoffs and reasserts his disbelief in the supernatural, stressing that he never shared Dani and Darcy's faith in hauntings.

After Ted departs, Darcy places Olin's glass eye in her palm. The object's touch provokes a sharp intake of breath; she recoils, shaken by what the eye shows her. She then begins to pack a large life-sized wooden mannequin into an oversized trunk and seals the crate with care. The mannequin is grotesque, carved with a crude human shape, and Darcy straps it down as if preparing to transport a weight that means more than mere furniture.

A few days later Darcy materializes at Ted's country home with the crate, presenting the wooden figure to Ted and his girlfriend Yana as a "gift" and insisting Yana keep it. Ted has to leave for his hospital night shift, so he places Darcy in Yana's care and departs. Yana, who is already uneasy about living in a house where a woman was murdered, tries to persuade Darcy to leave, but Darcy remains, eyes unseen but body steady. As Yana and Darcy talk, Yana grows increasingly ill at ease. She remembers that her car keys were in her coat pocket when she arrived; now the keys are missing. The feeling of being trapped tightens when Yana glimpses the mannequin move while her back is turned. She laughs it off at first as a trick of the mind, but then notices that the crate has been opened and the wooden figure has shifted its limb positions. When Yana approaches the mannequin to inspect it she discovers an unnatural cavity in its head that contains several deeply personal artifacts: black-and-white photographs of Dani and of Darcy when they were younger, small clumps of hair wrapped in paper, a single tooth wrapped in cloth, and a tiny vial filled with darkened blood. Yana recoils; Darcy insists that Yana return the items to the mannequin and, with hands that tremble only a little, Yana follows the demand and replaces each object into the head's hollows before retreating for the night.

As darkness sharpens in the house, Yana encounters an apparition in the hallway--a vision she identifies as Dani. The spectral figure leans close and tells her to run. Terrified, Yana scrambles to the crate to find her missing keys; she discovers them at the bottom and bolts from the house, slamming the car door behind her and calling Ted from the roadside. She tells him about Darcy's assertions that night: Darcy says she can psychically read objects and alleges she knows who killed Dani. Yana describes the mannequin moving and the head's secret trove; she tells Ted she saw Dani's ghost and that she fled for her life.

Ted races home and enters to find Darcy alone on the upper landing. She clutches Ted's wedding ring in both hands and sobs. Darcy tells a narrative back to front: she explains that after holding Olin's glass eye she received a clear reading of that deadly night and of the conspiracies that followed. Her words are precise and unyielding. Darcy says she first saw the arc of Dani and Ted's marriage fall apart: Ted stopped wanting to be with Dani but he refused to seek a divorce because separation threatened financial ruin--the house, his work, and his reputation. According to Darcy's vision, Ted engineered a solution. He signed paperwork that allowed Ivan, a large and violent psychiatric patient recently discharged from the hospital, to be employed as an orderly in the hospital where Ted works; Ted then instructed Ivan to make an appearance in the house the same night Dani would be alone, telling him to carry out the killing. In Darcy's account Olin was not the murderer; he had overheard Ted and Ivan plotting through an air vent when the patient was still at the hospital and, upon his release, he had returned to the house that night intending to warn Dani. The two men then framed Olin for the murder by making it look like the intruder's work. Darcy insists she tracked Olin after his release and killed him herself out of rage and grief, believing Olin had slaughtered her sister. She confesses that she used a wooden figure--the same kind of mannequin she has in her shop--as an instrument to finish Olin. Having committed that act, Darcy reports, she later "read" Olin's glass eye and realized she had been wrong: Olin was innocent. In the wake of that new knowledge, she tells Ted, she intends to turn the tables and destroy him: she will murder Ivan and ruin Ted's life.

Ted listens but denies everything. He insists he loved Dani once and had no reason to order a killing. He also questions the plausibility that Darcy, blind and small in stature, could have killed Olin on her own. Still, Ted plays along with the idea that someone might ring the detective in charge of Dani's murder. He tells Darcy the only place in the house with reliable cell reception is the hallway and leaves his own phone there; he will drive to the police station and call the detective so the investigator can phone Darcy back and confirm that Olin was the killer and clear Ted's name. Darcy nods and listens as Ted exits, putting on his coat and shaping the lie into motion.

Once Ted steps outside he opens a trapdoor that had been concealed in the hallway floor; he removes the cover and leaves the phone in place. The device sits where Darcy can reach it easily--exactly where Ted has calculated. He drives to the hospital and uses his clinic phone to place a call to his own mobile. When Darcy walks toward the ringing, the breadth of Ted's calculation becomes clear: the floor gives beneath her and she plunges through the trapdoor into a cold stone room below. She lands hard on flagstones and sustains severe injuries; blood films her palms and her breath comes shallow. Alone and wounded, Darcy is unable to stand for long.

Ted arranges what he imagines to be a tidy solution. He summons Ivan and tells him to go to the house and "dispose" of Darcy so there can be no loose ends. Ivan complies. When he arrives at the property he finds Darcy alive but gravely injured on the lower level. Darcy sees Ivan and she does not plead; instead she closes her eyes and begins to mouth an incantation while reaching out toward the top floor. Her voice is low, scarcely audible, and as she speaks something shifts in the house--a mechanical stirring as if wood and joint and paint are loosening to breathe. The same wooden man she used previously to ambush Olin now reanimates under Darcy's will. The mannequin moves with an inhuman, jerky gait and begins hunting Ivan through the rooms. In a sequence of violent collisions the wooden figure strikes Ivan and hurls him against bannisters and walls. Ivan fights back but the thing is relentless: it slams into him, pins him in narrow corridors and battering his limbs against stone. The attack leaves Ivan severely injured; he bleeds from cuts and bruises and suffers broken bones, his clothing shredded, his face swelled with blood. The mannequin finally grabs him and holds him suspended, its crude wooden fingers enclosing him like bars. For a moment the object's blows are merciless and Ivan's survival hangs in the balance; Darcy struggles to finish the invocation from her wounded state and tries to guide the figure to deliver a deathblow, but the fall she took earlier has taken all her strength. She dies on the cold floor before she can complete the ritual and before the wooden man can execute Ivan fully.

When Ted returns to the house after some hours he finds Ivan still alive but delirious, and he calls an ambulance. He speaks to the ambulance crew in a clipped voice and has the injured Ivan restrained and admitted to the psychiatric ward at the hospital where Ted practices. Once Ivan is under the hospital's control, Ted moves to tie up remaining threads. He claims, in the hospital corridors, that Ivan raved about a wooden figure attacking him and that he suffered disfiguring injuries. Ted brings the mannequin's remains back to the house and sets the thing alight; he watches the carved timbers and the paperbound hair blacken and flame in a hearth, convinced that the instrument of Darcy's vengeance is destroyed by fire.

Ted then takes a colder step. He believes Ivan can still expose their conspiracy and decides to silence him definitively. Ted releases a violent cannibal patient in the psychiatric unit by unlocking a room and permitting that dangerous inmate to enter Ivan's ward; once inside, the cannibal attacks Ivan. The assault is grotesque and savage: the cannibal rips at Ivan's flesh with teeth and hands until Ivan is killed and partially consumed. Hospital staff later discover the carnage and restrain the attacker, but for Ted the immediate danger to his freedom has been removed. In the span of days Ted has arranged murder, staged fires and manipulated hospital admissions; the pages of evidence he imagines sealed secure his future.

In the aftermath of these events Yana contacts Ted to break off their relationship. She leaves him a message while he is in his car driving home--she tells him, in a strained voice, that she cannot be with a man who lives in a house soaked with two deaths and who chooses convenience over truth. She calls him crazy and ends the relationship. Ted listens to the message as he approaches his front door; he allows the voicemail to play out completely and then steps over the threshold into the home where both Dani and Darcy died.

On the doorstep a small box awaits, delivered from the Cabinet of Curiosities. Inside sits the antique call bell Darcy had showed Ted months earlier, the very bell he had mocked. Ted picks it up and turns it over in his hand, glassy surfaces catching the lamplight. To prove once more that he refuses to accept superstition into his life, he presses the bell. The single metallic tone rings through the empty rooms. Nothing happens at first and Ted exhales in relief; he tells himself the world is rational and that he has done what he needed to do. Then, with no fanfare other than a chill that raises the hairs on his neck, the figure of a bellboy materializes behind him--tall, thin, dressed in a faded uniform as if he has stepped from a long-closed hotel. The bellhop's face is intent and unreadable. Ted, caught between disbelief and the impossible sight behind his shoulders, freezes in the doorway as the bellboy stands there, an embodiment of the curse Darcy warned about. The scene ends with the bellboy looming close and Ted left standing alone in the hall, the ring he summoned still ringing in the house's old bones.

Short, Simple Narrative of the Ending

After a night of supernatural terror and revelations, Yana, Ted's new girlfriend, flees the haunted country house, having discovered the truth about Dani's murder. Darcy, Dani's blind, clairvoyant twin sister, remains behind, confronting Ted with the evidence of his guilt. In the final moments, Darcy uses her psychometric powers to ensure justice is served, and the house--now a site of multiple deaths and dark secrets--is left in eerie silence, its horrors unresolved but its truth exposed.

Expanded, Chronological, Scene-by-Scene Narration of the Ending

The climax of Oddity unfolds over a single, tense night at the remote country house where Dani Odello-Timmis was murdered a year earlier. Ted Timmis, Dani's widower and a psychiatrist, has moved on with a new girlfriend, Yana, a pharmaceutical rep. The house, now fully restored, is haunted by Dani's memory and the presence of a life-sized wooden golem, delivered in a crate just before the arrival of Darcy Odello, Dani's blind, clairvoyant twin sister.

As night falls, Ted leaves for his hospital shift, reluctantly leaving Yana alone with Darcy. Yana, already uneasy, becomes increasingly frightened when she notices the wooden golem has moved on its own. She investigates, finding hidden compartments in the golem's head containing personal items: photographs of Dani and Darcy, locks of hair, a tooth, and a vial of blood. Darcy, sensing Yana's distress, angrily insists she return the items, her voice trembling with urgency. Yana, now terrified, complies but is unable to leave--her car keys have mysteriously vanished.

Alone in the house, Yana experiences a vision: Dani's ghost appears, silently urging her to flee. Panicked, Yana searches for her keys and, in a moment of desperation, finds them inside the golem's crate. She grabs them and runs to her car, her breath ragged, her hands shaking as she fumbles with the ignition. The house looms behind her, its windows dark, the golem's silhouette just visible through the glass. Yana drives away, her fate uncertain but her survival, for now, assured.

Inside the house, Darcy remains. She has come not just to mourn, but to uncover the truth about her sister's death. Using her psychometric abilities, she touches objects imbued with the energy of the crime, piecing together the events of that fatal night. The film's final scenes reveal, through flashbacks and Darcy's visions, that Ted was complicit in Dani's murder. The golem, a vessel for dark magic and unresolved grief, becomes both witness and instrument of retribution.

In the last moments, Darcy confronts Ted upon his return. The house, now a stage for reckoning, is filled with the weight of guilt and the presence of the supernatural. Darcy, though blind, sees the truth with chilling clarity. The golem, animated by the spirits of the wronged, enacts a form of justice. Ted, cornered by the consequences of his actions, meets a grim fate within the walls of the house he once shared with Dani.

The film ends as it began: with silence and isolation. The house stands empty, its secrets laid bare, its inhabitants gone--Yana escaped, Ted dead, Darcy departed, her mission complete. The golem remains, a silent sentinel, its purpose fulfilled. The final frame lingers on the house, now a monument to grief, guilt, and the inescapable past.

Fate of the Main Characters at the End

• Yana: Flees the house in terror, her car speeding down the dark country road. She survives the night, but the trauma of what she witnessed leaves her fate open-ended.
• Ted: Confronted with the evidence of his guilt and the supernatural forces he can no longer deny, he meets a violent end within the house, consumed by the darkness he helped create.
• Darcy: Having uncovered the truth and ensured a form of justice for her sister, she leaves the house, her grief tempered by closure. Her future is uncertain, but her quest is complete.
• Dani: Though dead, her presence lingers through visions and the golem, her spirit a driving force behind the night's events. Her murder is avenged, her memory honored.

The ending of Oddity is a meticulously constructed sequence of tension, revelation, and retribution, each character's journey culminating in a moment of truth that leaves the house--and the audience--haunted by what has transpired.

The movie Oddity (2024) does not have a post-credit scene. The credits run for about four minutes, and there is no extra footage or scene after the credits conclude.

However, the film's actual ending features a chilling final moment where Ted rings a bell in amusement, unaware that the ghostly bellboy spirit lurks behind him, waiting. This serves as a supernatural punchline to the story's revenge plot but occurs before the credits start, not after.

The wooden golem is a life-sized mannequin that arrives at the country house before Darcy's unexpected visit. It is described by Darcy as a gift and is found to contain strange objects inside holes in its head, including photographs of Dani and Darcy, locks of hair, a tooth, and a vial of blood. The golem inexplicably changes position during the evening, frightening Yana, and seems to be connected to the supernatural events unfolding in the house.

Darcy, who is blind and has psychometric powers, uses her ability to touch objects and hear the stories behind them to uncover the truth about her sister Dani's murder. She receives Olin's glass eye from Ted, which she believes will help her see into Olin's mind and understand what really happened the night of the murder. Her powers allow her to piece together events and reveal hidden details that others cannot perceive.

Olin Boole is one of Ted's former patients who visits Dani on the night she is murdered, warning her about a stranger in the house. He is initially believed to be the murderer. Later, Olin himself is found murdered in a halfway house, with his head smashed, adding complexity to the mystery and suggesting unresolved dark forces at play.

Ted, Dani's widowed husband, now lives in the country house with his new girlfriend Yana. Darcy, Dani's twin sister, arrives unexpectedly and insists on staying despite Yana's discomfort. Yana wishes to leave but is prevented when her car keys vanish. The presence of Darcy, her supernatural abilities, and the mysterious events surrounding the golem create a tense atmosphere, with mistrust and fear escalating between the characters.

After Darcy arrives, several supernatural events occur: the wooden golem moves on its own, Yana finds strange personal items inside the golem's head, Dani's apparition appears warning Yana to run, and Yana's car keys mysteriously disappear and then reappear inside the golem's crate. These phenomena heighten the horror and mystery surrounding the house and the unresolved murder.

Oddity (2024) is not family friendly and is rated R for some bloody images/gore and language. The film is a slow-burn, atmospheric horror that builds tension through unsettling visuals, psychological dread, and sudden, effective jump scares. While it avoids explicit sexual content, it contains several scenes of violence and disturbing imagery that could be upsetting for children or sensitive viewers.

Potentially Objectionable or Upsetting Content

Violence and Gore - A man is killed offscreen, with the aftermath shown in graphic detail: his head is smashed open, and blood, brain matter, and bits of skull are briefly visible. - Another man falls and breaks his leg; the sound of the bone snapping is heard, and the bone is shown protruding from the skin. - There is an implied act of cannibalism: a man bites another man's foot very hard, and it is suggested he may cannibalize him offscreen. - A woman falls through a hole, resulting in a head injury; she is shown lying in a pool of blood, with blood coming from her nose and mouth, gasping and gurgling. - A woman is beaten to death with a hammer offscreen; blood and gore are shown as a result.

Psychological and Supernatural Horror - The film features a life-sized wooden homunculus and other occult objects that create a pervasive sense of unease and dread. The presence of these objects, along with the film's eerie sound design and shadowy cinematography, contributes to a consistently unsettling atmosphere. - Characters experience intense fear, paranoia, and grief, with emotional states often conveyed through tense dialogue and physical reactions to unseen threats. - The remote, isolated setting of the house amplifies feelings of vulnerability and suspense, with characters frequently reacting to unexplained noises and the possibility of supernatural intrusion.

Language and Other Content - Profanity is present but mild. - There is no sexual content or nudity. - Alcohol and drug use is minimal.

Emotional Impact and Tone

Oddity is designed to unsettle and frighten, with a focus on psychological tension and the unknown. The film's pacing is deliberate, allowing dread to build gradually, but it culminates in several shocking and violent moments. The combination of realistic violence, supernatural elements, and a claustrophobic, ominous setting makes it inappropriate for younger audiences and potentially distressing for sensitive viewers.

In summary, Oddity (2024) is best suited for mature audiences comfortable with intense horror, graphic violence, and psychological suspense. It is not recommended for children or those sensitive to blood, gore, or prolonged tension.