'Oddity's darkly funny ending came by happy accident

One of the best horror movies of 2024 has an ending that's sublimely sick and satisfying. And that very last shot came by chance. 

When Mashable sat down with Oddity writer/director Damian McCarthy — and the Wooden Man at the film's center — we learned how the last brutal beat in the multifaceted horror story came to be. 

Sure, Oddity begins with a frightening premise of home invasion: a woman alone, renovating her remote country house, hears a knock at the door only to be confronted...