‘Oddity’ Director Damian McCarthy Created a Festival Favorite by Collecting a Treasure Trove of Haunted Items — Including a Terrifying Wooden Man

Horror director Damian McCarthy enjoys the dusty, the lived-in, the tactile. He shot his first film, “Caveat,” and his buzzy new second feature, “Oddity” in a spacious converted barn in his native Ireland, and every nook and cranny bounces light like a real-life, if slightly dingy, manor. “Oddity,” from IFC Films / Shudder, is filled […]