Battlestar Galactica actress Katee Sackhoff will star alongside Doctor Who's Karen Gillan in new horror movie Oculus.

Deadline reports that Sackhoff has been cast as Marie, mother to a younger version of Gillan's character Kaylie.

The film's story begins "a decade after a terrifying family incident left two young children orphans. Although her brother was charged with murder, Kaylie is convinced a haunted antique mirror is the real perpetrator and years later wants prove that the mirror was responsible for destroying their family."

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