This has to be one of the darkest and grimmest endings of all time...

I think that's why some people hated the film. It's so grim... but it's setup so good will win... but it totally fails. So most people hate so bad on this movie because of that reason alone.

I think it was a pretty great film, but I do wish it ended "good" because for once we really got to see some characters go thru turmoil, come out the other end... only to lose out in the end... very sad indeed. Lots of his movie's end bad as well... or sad...

Before I wake - also ends depressing in many ways... although not nearly as bad as Oculus.

Oculus really setup a story that possibly begs for a sequel... But I would hope he could write an ending that would have the mirror destroyed. Someone would need to be smarter than the mirror. If I recall you should never look into it, number 1... so you must resist temptation. And then you setup a way to destroy it. Problem is no one knows it's evil now because they are dead.



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I really love this one because there were too many cliche movies that degrade the evil, so protagonist could win in irrational garbage way.

I'm set a high hope to director for Oculus2 that a smarter protagonist might win and really wish to see how they can.

At least I'm glad that this movie not in a franchise garbahe way like final destination that studio so eager to produce a garbage in year after well response.

yeah ending was too sad tbh the girl should been the one to survive if anyone were t die would been full circle first boy goes in now the girl since she was the onw who was so obsessed with it in the first place

You know, this is one of those movies where I thought the downer ending worked because it actually managed to be both sad and heartbreaking instead of just shocking.

Far too many of these movies with unhappy endings only attempt to disturb the audience by having the protagonist(s) lose by some cynical twist and be almost gleeful about it when they're killed/tortured/etc. Not so with Oculus. We were definitely meant to hope for the brother and sister to come out victorious, which made their final fate all the more tragic. I thought the constant flashing back and forth between the timelines was well done as it showed how history just repeated itself in spite of all their precautions.

Yeah, it's a total downer, but I don't think it would've made sense for them to win against the enemy they were up against.