Add Mike Flanagan s Oculus to the horror subgenre of supernatural item movies. This time it s not a haunted doll or magical box but a deadly mirror with the power to compel people to commit violent acts. A man will think that he is trying to rip a Band-Aid from his finger only to realize that he s pulling his fingernail off instead. And that s nothing compared to what happens to teeth. The mirror has destroyed dozens of lives over the years, such as the time a mother thought she was tucking her children into bed but was drowning them in a cistern. You see what it wants you to see , as the tagline goes. While the narrative freedom inherent in that premise allows for some truly strong visuals at times the focus on star Karen Gillan s bouncing red pony tail down a hall or a bloody hand hidden behind a doorframe Oculus eventually becomes little more than a series of ghostly figures and twisted visions on its way to a cop-out of an ending that you ll see coming an hour away. Solid pe