hearthstoneivan
4.8/10 The "How To Not Make a Horror Movie" documentary guide is a complete blast! Its both entertaining and insightful nature is crucial for the creative growth of every filmmaker and much needed to understand the sophisticated fabric of overwhelming mediocrity. The 7-Dimensional characters are deep as a straight road and the story beats beat the living crap out of your desire to live. It's not either good enough or bad enough to be entertaining. A horrifically unforgettable script and earned horror moments that will leave you wondering if this movie even existed the second you stop watching it. The acting is so seamless, you could never guess that the actors had a gun pointed to their heads. Watch the extras people! Scientists are still researching the sheer brilliancy and depth of the lore make that give a magical, mystical feel to the world of monsters and spirits and some other garbage I don't care about. The world of Oyjia is built with such exact precision and haunting mythology, that Warcraft can just go and suck a... Well, that's another story for another day folks, the only fault about the movie is my current devastating desire to watch the next 15 sequels such as: "Ou 2 Ija 2", "Oujia: Haunted Boongalo", "Ouijja vs Jumanji: Dawn of Civil War", "Ouija: An Oujia Space Oddysey" and the much anticipated x-rated spin-off: "Oucumja: Parahuge Cocks"
Jackson Booth-Millard
I had heard the title for this scary movie a number of times, it was only after seeing the trailer for the sequel, Origin of Evil, that I decided to watch it, despite being panned by critics. Basically childhood friends Laine Morris (Afra Sophia Tully) and Debbie Galardi (Claire Beale) used to play with an Ouija board, now in the present day, Laine (Olivia Cooke) throws the board in the fire, burning it. However, the board reappears in Debbie's room, she is possessed and hangs herself, Laine and her boyfriend Trevor (Daren Kagasoff), younger sister Sarah (Ana Coto), friend Isabelle (Bianca A. Santos), and Debbie's boyfriend Pete (Douglas Smith) attend her funeral. After the wake, the five friends find the Ouija board, Laine suggests using it communicate with Debbie's spirit, strange things happen during their session, including Pete smashing his head into the mirror. Soon after, the friends start finding the phrase "hi friend" (a message communicated during the Ouija board session) written in various places, including in a car window, on a tunnel wall, on a desk and on Laine's computer. Thinking it is Debbie communicating with them, they have another board session, but they realise they have actually come into contact with another spirit of the house. Laine looks through the board's planchette and sees the image of a little girl with her mouth sewn shut, the girl warns her mother is coming, then she sees an old woman, and the group flee. Laine later learns that Debbie found the Ouija board in her attic and played with it alone, then Isabelle is possessed and killed, she smashes her head and cracks her skull open on the bathroom sink. Laine and Pete decide to investigate the house, in the attic they finds photographs belonging to the previous residents, and searching the family history, they find out the little girl, Doris (Sunny May Allison) went missing, her mother was suspected of the disappearance. Laine finds Doris's now elderly sister, Paulina (Insidious's Lin Shaye), committed to a psychiatric hospital, she explains that her mother was a medium, and used Doris's as a vessel for the dead to speak through, the mother went mad, stitched up Doris's mouth, and killed herself. Paulina tells Laine about a secret room in the house, where she must find Doris's hidden body and unstitch her mouth in order to banish the mother. The remaining friends return to the Galardi house, Laine finds the corpse and cuts the mouth stitches, Doris's spirit appears to chase the ghost of the mother away, but shortly after, Pete is possessed and is killed at home, appearing as a ghost with his mouthy sewn shut. Returning to Paulina, Laine realises the old woman intentionally lied, Doris is actually the evil entity, the mother was trying to stop the friends summoning her with the board. The Morris's grandmother, Nona (Vivis Colombetti), advises the sisters destroy Doris's body and the Ouija board at the same time, Trevor is then killed, being possessed and thrown into the swimming pool, filled with plastic wrapping, he is trapped and drowns. Laine and Sarah return to the Galardi house cellar, Sarah is captured by Doris and prepares to sew her mouth shut, but the spirit's attention is drawn by Laine playing with the Ouija board. Doris attempts to possess her, but Debbie's spirit appears, helps save Laine and defeat Doris, her body is thrown into the furnace, and Laine throws the Ouija board. The paranormal activity is over, but in her bedroom, Laine finds the planchette has mysteriously appeared, she looks through its glass hole, the picture fades to black, it is unclear if she saw anything. Also starring Matthew Settle as Mr. Morris, Robyn Lively as Mrs. Galardi, Claudia Katz Minnick as Mother and Morgan Peter Brown as Young Sarah. Everyone has tried having a seance in some way at some point, for fun or for reason, this film is based on the Hasbro "talking board" idea, unfortunately it is full of flaws, the contrived shocks are minimal, there is little gore and imagination with the deaths, and the story is predictable, that popular seance question "is anybody there?" could easily be aimed at the audience, let's hope the sequel is better, a pretty boring horror. Adequate!
r-b-amin
First of all, I would begin by saying that IMDb ratings & reviews are so unreliable that I decided not to watch/reject a movie anymore because of some stupid ratings and reviews. This movie actually gives you that general message of how dealing with an Ouija board foolishly could ruin your life. Nevertheless, it's all about the direction of a horror movie which makes it different and appealing and this one is quite remarkable. Ouija (2014) is a much better horror than Ouija: the origin of evil (2016) which you would find to have got a rating of 6, whereas you would see only 4.5 for Ouija (2014). A lot of people criticized it to be a children's movie (just because playing with the Ouija Board doesn't make it so) or did not quite like the young girls and boys involved with the Ouija board activities here. However, it would be ridiculous to see a bunch of old people dealing with an Ouija board, isn't it? It's very natural to see a group of young would fall for this trap and by mistake could bring something satanic/demonic. You could also find Lin Shaye (who played the role of Elise Rainier in the Insidious series) in this movie who perfectly fits into this kind of horror climax which Ouija delivered. I have no idea how trash movies like Triangle (2009) or average horror with absolutely zero scary scenes such as The Witch (2015) got such high ratings and positive reviews whereas for Ouija (2014), the case is not so. It has the ability to scare you quite a few number of times which you would appreciate while watching a horror. Pure and simple. We don't always like to watch a complicated horror movie which ends in such a way that we have to go to Google and find out the explanations of the stories and their endings so that the spent time would be worth watching it. Why so much effort to understand a movie! Non-sense! I would say, if you really love horror which could easily happen to your day-to-day lives or you love to get scared a few number of times and especially love an excellent climax at the end then this movie is worth-watching. Please ignore the stupid ratings & reviews of a horror movie here on IMDb and watch the trailer by yourself, if it seems convincing, then make your own decision rather than going for reviews of some immature young generation who have only learnt watching horror movies for a few years.
evolcapricorn
I have seen a ton of Horror movies cause Horror is my favorite Genre. Seeing the commercials for this movie, I had to watch it. It seemed scary, and with the Ouija Board, it seemed down-right horrifying. So when it came out on DVD, I went and bought it. Big mistake. The acting was just horrible and lifeless, the plot had so many holes in it which raised more questions than answers. There was a series of movies that centered around a Ouija Board called Witchboard which spawned 2 sequels, great movie, so I thought that this movie was going to be just as good as the Witchboard movies, but I was wrong, it was the complete opposite. I am a trooper when it comes to movies, even bad movies, so I watched all of the way through, or shall I say that I have survived the movie cause it was just so, so boring. If you want to see a horror movie about an Ouija Board, watch Witchboard 1-3. Those are good Horror movies.
