As the night progresses, the mirror begins to warp their perception of time and space. The siblings find themselves caught in "perception loops" where they cannot trust their own senses.
: Kaylie believes she is eating an apple, only to realize she has bitten into a lightbulb. Oculus (2014) 720p
The film picks up when Tim is released at age 21, seemingly "cured" and convinced that the family tragedy was the result of mental illness and domestic abuse. However, Kaylie has spent the last decade tracking down the mirror. She has researched its 300-year history of gruesome deaths and has devised an elaborate experiment to prove its supernatural power and then destroy it. As the night progresses, the mirror begins to
Thinking he is striking at the mirror's heart, Tim accidentally kills Kaylie, who was standing in front of it, obscured by a hallucination. As the police arrive—mirrors of the scene from eleven years prior—Tim is once again taken away in a squad car, screaming that the mirror is responsible, while the Lasser Glass remains pristine and unbroken, having claimed its latest victims. The film picks up when Tim is released
Eleven years before the main events, Alan and Marie Russell move into a new home with their children, Kaylie and Tim. Alan purchases the Lasser Glass for his office, and soon the mirror begins to exert a malevolent influence. It causes plants to die, pets to disappear, and eventually drives Alan and Marie to insanity. Marie becomes physically decayed and violent, while Alan is lured into an affair with a "woman" named Marisol, who is actually a manifestation of the mirror. The ordeal ends in bloodshed: Tim is forced to shoot his possessed father to save Kaylie, leading to Tim’s incarceration in a psychiatric hospital. The Experiment