Ouija

Plot synopsis:
In the opening scene, two young girls, named Laine and Debbie, are sitting in Laine's room playing with a Ouija board. Debbie tells Laine how to play and how to use the planchette to see any spirits. They say the mantra, "As friends we gathered, hearts are true; spirits near, we call to you." Laine looks through the planchette to spot a spirit, and is frightened when she sees someone, only it's her younger sister Sarah. She yells at Sarah to leave.In the present day, the adult Debbie (Shelley Hennig) is playing with the Ouija board by herself. She appears distressed, and she tosses the board and planchette into the furnace. She then speaks on the phone with the adult Laine (Olivia Cooke). Laine goes over to her house, and Debbie says she is not up to hanging out with her and their friends that night. Debbie mentions playing the Ouija board and feeling odd, though Laine dismisses this as her being a spaz. After Laine leaves, Debbie goes back upstairs and sees the Ouija board and planchette on her bed. She looks through the planchette, and her eyes turn white. Debbie then grabs some Christmas lights and hangs herself.The next morning, Laine is with her boyfriend Trevor (Daren Kagasoff) at a diner. They are met by their waitress friend Isabelle (Bianca A. Santos). Laine gets a text from her dad saying to go home immediately. When she gets there, Laine finds her dad, her grandmother, and Sarah (Ana Coto) gathered to inform her of what happened to Debbie.All of Debbie's loved ones gather for the wake. Laine is too shaken to be there, but she holds it together. Debbie's boyfriend Pete (Douglas Smith) arrives with some flowers. Laine goes into Debbie's room where Debbie's mother finds her. Laine breaks down and hugs her. She asks Laine to housesit for them while they are gone. Laine agrees.Laine discovers the Ouija board that Debbie was playing with. Since she cannot shake the feeling that Debbie's presence is still in the house, she gathers Sarah, Trevor, Pete, and Isabelle to Debbie's house to play with the board. They get together and say the mantra as they put their hands together on the planchette. It starts to move, which everyone thinks is Sarah moving it. The spirit implies that it is Debbie and it spells out "Hi Friend" on the board. The friends are freaked out and stop playing.Each friend is followed by the spirit. Trevor encounters it on a bike ride, leading him under a bridge where he sees "Hi Friend" written on the wall in chalk. Isabelle sees it spelled out in her car window, along with a hand slamming against it. Pete sees it carved in his desk.Thinking that Debbie is trying to communicate with them, the friends get together to play the board again. They learn that the spirit is not Debbie, but someone that identifies as DZ. Laine looks through the planchette and sees a little girl with stitches on her mouth. The spirit then spells out on the board, "Run. She's coming." Laine asks who is coming, and the spirit spells "Mother." Laine looks through the planchette and sees the girl point to an older female spirit screaming and running in her direction.In her home, Isabelle is flossing her teeth and drawing herself a bath. She then has stitches form on her mouth, and she is levitated in the air. The spirit drops her, leaving her to slam her head against the sink, killing her.Trevor is angry at Laine because she made them play the game, which led to Isabelle's death. Laine investigates Debbie's house and finds some pictures of two little girls and their mother. Trevor looks up on the internet an article on a missing girl from the same address as Debbie's home, as well as the girl's sister being taken into custody after murdering her mother.Laine goes to a mental asylum to meet Paulina Zander (Lin Shaye), the sister of Doris, the girl with the stitches on her mouth. She tells Laine that their mother believed she heard voices and saw spirits that were trying to communicate through Doris, so she sewed her mouth shut. Paulina asks Laine to find Doris's body in the house and to cut the stitches open.Laine finds Doris's corpse in Debbie's home, with her mouth still sewed shut. She cuts the stitches open, bringing Doris's spirit out, along with Mother. Doris lets out a blood-curdling scream and vanquishes Mother's spirit.Just when it seems that everything is over...IT'S NOT. Pete gets killed in his home by Doris's spirit. Laine returns to the asylum to tell Paulina that she did what she told her. Paulina chuckles, and Laine realizes that Mother was not evil, but it was Doris and Paulina that were communicating with spirits, and that their mother was trying to stop them.Laine's grandmother tells Laine and Sarah that the only way to defeat the spirit is the destroy not only the Ouija board, but Doris's corpse.The girls and Trevor go to Debbie's house to finish this. Trevor gets pulled into the pool and is killed by Doris. Sarah finds Doris's corpse and is attacked by her spirit. Laine gets out the Ouija board and beckons Doris to play with her. Doris grabs Laine's arm and almost kills her, until Debbie's spirit shows up to intervene. Sarah brings Doris's corpse and throws it into the furnace. Laine throws the Ouija board and planchette, and Doris's spirit is destroyed.Laine and Sarah return home, relieved that everything is over. Laine flosses her teeth and gets ready for bed, and then finds the planchette on her desk. She picks it up and looks through it one more time.

Tags: paranormal, murder, flashback

Review:
"Ouija" has a pretty cool and creepy story to work with, an old spirit board discovered in the attack, suicides and haunting, a creepy legend that connects the board to the house of the suicide girl, it is all perfect horror subject matter.
You can tell money was well spend in production, "Ouija" has all the right components to be a real good horror film, unfortunately it all stays pretty PG.
I mean really for what "Ouija" is it is a nice, creepy Halloween horror film based on an occult staple-the spirit board.
And there are a few scare-ish moments that use the sudden shock gimmick to get a jump out of the movie-goer but still this film is far less exciting than say "Insidious" or "The Conjuring"..
This movie was by no means a cinematic masterpiece, however can you really expect something of such high quality when the entire premise is based around a Ouija board that wreaks havoc upon a group of close friends.Watching this film, my desire to watch a somewhat corny and predictable horror/thriller was achieved with ease.
As someone who has been warned time and time again about the dangers of using supernatural means to attempt to contact the dead, I found this movie to be highly entertaining in a cheap-thrills kind of way.If you are looking for a simple, cliché supernatural themed movie to watch with close friends for a movie night, I'd definitely recommend.
After the death of her best friend Debbie (Shelley Hennig) that committed suicide, Laine (Olivia Cooke) brings her sister Sarah (Ana Coto) and convinces her friends Trevor (Daren Kagasoff), Isabelle (Bianca Santos) and Pete (Douglas Smith) to perform a séance using a Ouija board.
I do not recall how many movies that I have seen with the same storyline, where a group of teens or even adults that use a Ouija board or a séance to accidentally awake evil spirits.
If you want to see a horror movie about an Ouija Board, watch Witchboard 1-3.
This is actually pretty entertaining, okay it wasn't that scary, just a little scary, they're some jump scares here and there, but some the suspense in this movie is pretty good, now I will admit the premise of this movie was pretty stupid, but what do you expect, the movie has a stupid title and a stupid premise, which is about some average teens play a board game known as Ouija, if you remember the Ouija game, you know how to play it, and know the plot, if you don't know I'll tell you plot.
After a girl Debbie died, her friends found the board game Ouija, and they start to play it, once they played it, something goes wrong, the game starts to haunt them left and right, when they play or don't play the game, so they have to keep on playing to find the spirit, and put an end to it.
Overall this film is pretty good, it's not great, but it's still good to watch, would I recommend to you guys, yes for people that don't take stupid movies too seriously, you probably enjoy it, like I did, because I didn't take it too seriously, if you did, you may not like it, because it's met to be stupid, so it was so stupid that it was entertaining to watch..
2014's horror film Ouija instead puts the cause and focus of the strange disturbances directly upon the game itself.After one of their friends inexplicably is found dead in a suspected suicide, a group of friends turn toward her Ouija board in a desperate attempt to find answers and closure.
While formulas typically exist because on some level they do work, this one has been bludgeoned to boredom inducing death.Typically if a film is going to be this standard then some sort of redeemable part of it must shine through, either through stellar characters portrayed by undiscovered gems or uniquely gruesome horror scenes.
Once the group of friends, led by up-and-coming horror queen Olivia Cooke, make contact through the Ouija board the terrifying scenes considerably improve but never prove wow-worthy and still border on cliché.The most substantial error in the entirety of the film is the overall serious tone.
When her friend Debbie (Shelley Hennig) dies in what appears to be a suicide, Laine (Olivia Cooke) thinks there's more to her death and it may involve the Ouija board that was in her house.
At last, the fact that when the scary part DID fall, they were not as scary as I would have expected them to be.All I learned after Ouija was that it is the perfect movie to introduce somebody who hates horror movies to the genre but certainly not for intermediate/advanced spectators who love it.I remember my reaction at the end of the session and I was like 'what did I just watch' and it seemed like my friends had the same reactions.
You'll probably already know the story about the ancient spirit board that can have supernatural abilities linked to the dead, but Ouija manages to make them interesting and fun to watch.
It's easy to tell the rave reviews are written by 13 year olds so if you are an adult, keep that in mind when considering to spend your hard earned money on this cheesy horror flick.Ouija is a poorly written and directed horror movie with basically having nothing to impress the audience other than cheap jump scares.
I gave up on expecting character development in these type of horror movies long time ago but I was still waiting something in the sense of story telling which this movie has none of it.Quija heavily relies on one thing.
Of course, the answer is not that clear and soon after, whatever they communicated with, starts chasing the group.The main problem of this movie is relying on jump scares rather than making the movie itself scary with the ambiance, story and the situations characters are in like Insidious, The Conjuring, Anabelle etc.
I'll go with the latter and that's what happens with this movie.Considering the 5 million dollar budget, I wasn't expecting much but when you think that the first Paranormal Activity had a thirty thousand dollar budget, I bet this movie could have made a lot better than what it is now.Unfortunately, Ouija lacks tension, horror, likable characters and all the things that a good movie has.
Because "Ouija" is just a generic, bad ghost movie, it would be exactly the same if the board wasn't even there.
Unwarranted cheap jumpscares for the sole reason of trying to hide the lack of real horror or substance, cookie-cutter story, dialogue and characters, the same visuals you have seen time and time again in other movies.
The film didn't really go the way I predicted and it felt like it flew over I didn't feel like I was sitting checking my watch every ten minutes hoping for it to end, I really did loose track off time I was that scared most off the time I didn't even want to move.
Throughout the film I must have jumped a good ten times the scenes really were intense and unpredictable the usual horror scares didn't really happen.
Produced by Platinum Dunes, yes Michael Bay's film company, Ouija is a bland, by the numbers horror flick that lacks scares and ups the boredom factor.
"Ouija" is brought to you by Michael Bay from Platinum Dunes,toy manufacturer Hasbro and Jason Blum,producer of the "Paranormal Activity" series.Pretty girl Debbie rejects a night out with her best friend in order to play alone with an Ouija board.Bad decision as she becomes possessed and hangs herself.Her best friend Laine(Olivia Cooke)starts investigating the tragic death of Debbie.She and her younger sister plus three friends decide to perform spiritual séance with Ouija board.They want to contact Debbie's spirit.But instead of Debbie they make a contact with murderous spirit who lives somewhere inside the house of Debbie.Tolerable supernatural horror flick with routine script and few fairly spooky scenes of ghostly manifestations.No sex and very little on-screen violence.6 Ouija boards out of 10..
This week I have been watching some old 1980's horror movies like "Hell Raiser" now that is classic and very scary.
I tried very hard to get my friends to stay at my house and watch some old classic horror movies on Netflix.
It turns out that the friend made a cardinal sin by playing a ouija board alone, which has allowed a spirit to escape and now it's after the friends.OUIJA is the latest horror film that offers up zero scares and zero originality.
This film here is the latest example of everything that's wrong with the genre and that's the fact that instead of building an atmosphere or any type of real tension, instead we're given a bunch of loud bangs that are supposed to scare us.I guess if you scare extremely easy and will jump at anything then you'll find this terrifying but if you've ever seen a horror movie in your life then it's doubtful that you're going to find much here.
OUIJA is a pretty bad horror film that is silly, unoriginal and not at all scary..
I did not typically think horror movies were marketed towards very young teens and preteens, but this one clearly was.The acting was bad.
As we know, bad films can be equally fun to watch, which is especially true in the horror genre.
I am the first one to say that Ouija as it's own movie based off the board would be hard due to because you need a lot of material to support it but it is still an interesting idea none the less.
The maid of the house played by Vivis Colombetti is quite underused and is a big waste of an idea and a character.Much like the film Mama from last year or other horror remakes, Ouija is a slumber party film for teenagers girls to get scared who do not know about good horror films yet or will never know.
You just know somehow this movie was green-lit solely based on the concept of "Ouija boards are scary, man." Unfortunately, no real effort was made to build a solid horror movie around this concept.
I'm talking about the movie Ouija, which from the trailers looked to be another simplistic scare story designed to make you fear the dark.
They use it to contact Debbie, but they end up contacting something else...The plot is pretty generic and when you think about it, it's kinda like the plot of The Ring, just put Ouija board instead of a cursed video tape.
As made clear by the title, a Ouija board also forms the central gimmick in this film, but like all skeptical horror fans know, a good gimmick doesn't necessarily guarantee a good movie!
But that isn't problem, because horror movies don't have difficult plots in general - they meant to scare you, and "Ouija" delivers exactly what it promises.
It doesn't show anything original or new, nor does it try to reinvent the wheel of horror movie making - if you know the genre, you will be in familiar ground watching this flick, and it's not a bad ground at all for one evening to spend..
It's shot like a typical teen drama, but there isn't even the exaggerated angst and nonsense to give at least some laughable amusement, since it's really trying to be a horror movie.It's just not good.
Plus, it took me a good long while to figure out that the lead characters are supposed to be high-school age as they are clearly all well into their twenties.Movies like this give the horror genre (which I love) a cheap name.
OuijaThe worst thing about playing with a spirit board is your friends will finally learn you're illiterate.Luckily, the friends in this horror are all able to discern written messages from beyond.Laine (Olivia Cooke) and her friends (Daren Kagasoff, Bianca A.
Santos, Douglas Smith, Ana Coto) use her childhood Ouija board to reach out to their deceased friend Debbie (Shelley Hennig), who mysteriously committed suicide.Making contact with a spirit they believe to be Deb, the friends slowly realize the entity leaving them messages - sans Ouija board - is not their friend at all.In fact, it's the restless soul of a mother murdered by her daughter.With a script as flimsy as a Ouija board, this no thrills thriller from Hasbro fails to conjure up scares or any reason to care about these one dimensional characters.Furthermore, Ouija boards should only be used to order ghost pizza.
It seems like there was just not enough connections to make a better story and at times it made me mad when the only answer was to play the Ouija board..
But at the end of the day, all "Ouija" is, is a scary movie with one scare, as well as a Michael Bay production (money grab) that will be the major reason for teen disappointment this Halloween weekend..
Halloween night we went to watch it, the whole room was packed with people expecting something new and scary as for the past few years there was really no good horror movies.
There are really good points in this film, but overall it fails as a horror movie.
It has too many jump scares, these can be used in a clever way (paranormal activity etc) but in this movie its like "oh again really??" after you watch the first 2 scares you know what's coming.
Whether you believe in them or not though I would say that overall Ouija (2014) is a fun Halloween/horror movie but there is not much in the film that will keep people talking about it in years to come, although it does keep your interest throughout.
I hope Hollywood starts to develop new saw films although they became pretty bad towards the end of the series at least I knew I got a good foundation of a story.
Acting is good, pretty straight forward and decent story and there are a few good scary moments.As with any horror movie, you'll find yourself hoping the characters don't do this or that or that they should have done this or that.
But there aren't too many moments like that which made it more enjoyable.It did get a bit cheesy towards the end but still, if you are in the mood for a good scare, you won't be disappointed.It's an above average horror movies so I'm giving it a 6/10..
personally i didn't like it and i know many who are disappointed (me) because a ouija board is not a common base for a horror flick.
Would not have minded the lack of originality (the film is extremely derivative and in a dumbed and watered down way) if the story and atmosphere were at least alright in execution, in reality they were both incredibly poorly done.A lot of 'Ouija' often nonsensical and confusing character motivations, while too many of the things to make you jump or shocked are far from creative or scary and are pretty tame.
I don't mind "B" films or "B" actors - if they are so bad, they are good but the cast and film - terrible.I love the idea behind this movie - the Ouija Board!
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.
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.
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.
Bottom line, if you want a popcorn movie to watch with a couple of your friends one night, "Ouija" is not the worst way to do it.
All in all a very predictable film like most horrors these days.Ouija is dragged out for the first hour and then rushed to do everything in the last twenty minutes..
Also what some of the characters did wasn't very logical at all - but then again what horror story has logic in it.I can't write much more about this, I already wasted enough time watching the movie.
Ouija is now the latest of the board games to become movies.Two girls, Debbie (played by Shelley Hennig) and Laine (played by Olivia Cooke) are simply two of the closest high school friends around.
What perplexes me is that producer Michael Bay only seems interested in churning out horror movies that may have people coming, but never returning to.I'll give this two Ouija boards out of five.
In my opinion, good horror movie have a few characters that are developed to the point that you become emotionally invested and care about what happens to them so we get scared with them because we believe that something bad is about to happen to them.
It had its scary moments and times of suspense, but it wasn't as great as many recent horror films.Ouija is not an entirely terrible, it has its moments that had me at the edge of my seat.
It surely isn't the worst BUT any and all movies based on the Ouija board are going to have to be seen that way.
Beyond that, this movie carries some pretty poor acting (minus the lead who seemed to actually care to try at times) and the scares were way to few and far between to sucker in a horror fan.
A good horror movie should scare you with its story, it should have the ability to effect the way you think about the world.