Ouija (2014)

Why so much hype?

Sorry, this movie sucks

A Disappointing Continuation

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Ouija is a horror film that starts out decently but ultimately has very little merit apart from some pleasant camera work and a few reasonable effects. But, you expect more suspense and creepy ambiance from a ghost film, and Ouija just becomes another predictable vengeful spirit affair (with a bit of Final Destination chucked in for good measure - just without the invention and imagination of those movies), and a turgid one at that. As such, the pacing is slow, and the feeling evoked in the viewer is apt for a movie about the dead as it is totally lifeless. In the final analysis then, Ouija is a dull film and should be retitled Nonnein.

So, I first saw "Ouija: Origin of Evil" (2016) in the theater when it came out, and I thought it was fantastic--I gave it 9/10 stars. And so, of course, I decided to go and watch the first film in the series, simply titled, "Ouija". I did so despite my having been warned by a couple of friends that it was a pretty bad movie. But, come on, how bad could it really be??? "Origin of Evil" is AWESOME....so the first one must be pretty good, right?Wrong. This movie is terrible. TERRIBLE.About the only thing I can say for the movie is that it does more or less follow the storyline of the prequel (although there are some glitches there, too), and as such it was marginally fun to find out how the story ends, so to speak.But, man, this movie just downright sucks all the way around. The plot is bad, the acting...is...OK, but nothing to write home about. The story is not developed at all, and it's like they just threw together a few general concepts and tossed it into a movie.All that said, it really is like they made the terrible sequel first, after the hit horror movie. The 2016 prequel is leaps and bounds better than this movie. But this movie itself is weak as can be. 2/10 stars....a rating I have hardly ever given before. This one's bad folks. Real bad.

Ouija tells the story of a young girl who finds out her best friend had hung herself. Knowing that she had no suicidal thoughts,this girl decides to contact her threw a Ouija board and woo evil spirits are let out and everyone dies..help. In my opinion,Ouija is one of the worst films ever to be made,it is so poor and so fake and it just has nothing in it that scares me,I literally think a jumped once and by jump I mean moving leg and accidentally jumping while a scary part approaches. This film stars Oliva Cooke who like Shelly Hennig(who is also in this film for a brief few minutes) are OK actors,there pretty new like they've only started acting like 3 years ago probably. This films effects were also horrible,God that scene where that ghost popped up was so terrible I wanted to get sick ugh. A sequel is approaching this October in about 2 weeks and it's from the director Mike Flanagan who directed Oculus which wasn't a bad film but I'm not sure if I'll see it..yeah..I'm pretty sure I won't see it. Ouija is a terrible,terrible,terrible movie that you shouldn't see only if you have the worst taste in films ever!!!

I truly enjoyed this little horror flick. It's not a huge production and if you need to get scared out of your socks or see blood running in streams to be entertained then you probably won't be right here, but I liked that it had just the right dose of horror and - even more important - it had a real good story, the right portion of scavenger hunt a horror flick needs, with secrets to solve, unexpected turns and - yes - it was pretty logical for a fantasy film! The only thing that I was wondering is how a ghost from the 40ies comes to know how to operate a computer ;-). And I did not like the clichéd ending (I cannot imagine them forgetting to burn this piece and if they did burn it, how come it is back??). But then again: the movie has Shelley Hennig and Olivia Cooke - so what more can you want? Turn the TV on and enjoy!!