{"id":380724,"date":"2026-10-13T02:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T09:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=380724"},"modified":"2026-10-13T02:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T09:20:09","slug":"mike-flanagans-oculus-is-now-on-netflix-stream-the-2013-chiller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/mike-flanagans-oculus-is-now-on-netflix-stream-the-2013-chiller\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Flanagan\u2019s Oculus is now on Netflix: stream the 2013 chiller"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mike Flanagan\u2019s 2013 horror film Oculus<\/a><\/em> is on Netflix<\/a> right now. It\u2019s the movie where a lot of his recurring obsessions really come into focus first, the ones that would later run through The Haunting of Hill House<\/em>, Midnight Mass<\/em>, Doctor Sleep<\/em>, and even his 2026 Prime Video version of Stephen King\u2019s Carrie<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Flanagan\u2019s second feature after Absentia<\/em>, adapted from his 2005 short Oculus: Chapter 3 \u2013 The Man with the Plan<\/em>, follows siblings Kaylie and Tim Russell<\/strong>, played by Karen Gillan and Brenton Thwaites, as they set out to destroy the cursed Lasser Glass. They\u2019re convinced the mirror drove their parents into madness and led to their deaths.<\/p>\n\n

Writing with Jeff Howard, Flanagan keeps the mirror\u2019s backstory mostly in the dark. What he leans on instead is fractured reality, past and present folding into each other, shaky perception<\/strong>, and the kind of family trauma that would become one of the clearest through-lines in his later work.<\/p>\n\n

If you came to Flanagan through the bigger streaming shows, Oculus<\/em> is absolutely one to catch. I went back to it, and Karen Gillan still gives the movie its center of gravity, anchoring a tight, emotionally cutting<\/strong> little horror film.<\/p>\n\n

Oculus<\/em> made more than $44 million<\/strong> worldwide against a budget of around $5 million, and it later got a 2017 Bollywood remake, Dobaara: See Your Evil<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n

You can stream Oculus<\/em> on Netflix now.<\/p>\n

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Mike Flanagan\u2019s 2013 horror film Oculus is on Netflix right now. It\u2019s the movie where a lot of his recurring obsessions really come into focus first, the ones that would later run through The Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass, Doctor Sleep, and even his 2026 Prime Video version of Stephen King\u2019s Carrie. Flanagan\u2019s second … Continue reading “Mike Flanagan\u2019s Oculus is now on Netflix: stream the 2013 chiller”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1009,"featured_media":380723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6869],"class_list":["post-380724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","content-category-streaming-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380725,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380724\/revisions\/380725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380724"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=380724"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=380724"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=380724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}