Oculus | Director Mike Flanagan | Score: 5.9 All film genres have their tropes; it’s just that horror has them posted like large, bobbing buoys in a restless sea. From watching countless such flicks, we can extrapolate the following to be self-evident: pets = dead skeptics = proven wrong moving into a new house = huge mistake approaching ghostly visages in skimpy nightie = only acceptable method man left alone to write = very bad idea antique black cedar mirror = big trouble This isn’t to suggest Mike Flanagan’s occult thriller is some lazy, rote dog of convenience. The film…
