Ouija Shark 2

The 2020 movie "Ouija Shark" was an abysmal affair, let's not dance around the bush here, so why sit down and watch the 2022 sequel "Ouija Shark 2"? Because I had the opportunity to do so. And it is a shark movie, of sorts, after all.

Sure, I had absolutely no expectations to "Ouija Shark 2", aside from being in for another catastrophic movie, with a near non-existing chance of it actually being so bad it would be fun to watch. And thus, I sat down to watch the 2022 movie "Ouija Shark 2" from writer and director John Migliore.

And the storyline in "Ouija Shark 2", as written by John Migliore, was bad, so very, very bad. It made no sense, really. The lack of an interesting storyline in this movie just sucked away all enjoyment that the movie might have had to it. But hey, if you enjoyed the 2020 movie "Ouija Shark", then you might also enjoy "Ouija Shark 2".

Needless to say that there was no famous actors or actresses on the cast list in this movie. And having a cast ensemble of all unfamiliar faces is usually something I enjoy when I sit down to watch a movie. I can't claim that I was impressed with the wooden, rigid and dubious acting performances that took place on the screen here in "Ouija Shark 2".

I am sure that there is an audience out there for a questionable, cheesy movie such as "Ouija Shark 2". I just happened to not be a part of that particular audience, and thus I found no enjoyment in this sequel.

The movie's cover/poster looks good. But of course, you know immediately that the movie is going to be nothing remotely like the cover/poster. And true enough, the movie's cover/poster oversells the movie a thousand times over. No surprise there. And the cover/poster was actually the best thing about the entire ordeal known as "Ouija Shark 2".

It should come as no surprise that my rating of writer and director John Migliore's 2022 movie "Ouija Shark 2" lands on a one out of ten stars.

If I could describe Ouija Shark 2 with one word, it would be "ambition". Having seen the first installment just a week before the sequel's release, I went into this movie expecting 5 minutes of John Migliore's character providing narration in between a beat-for-beat rehash of the first movie with a different set of bikini girls. I was proven wrong within the first ten minutes and it only got better from there. Migliore brings a surprisingly complex level of supernatural/mythical lore to this production, and his battles in Hell are just the beginning of this titanic struggle...Watch the first one, grab another beer, and prepare to be blown away!

After defeating the released shark, the former mystic finds himself stalked by the shark and its maniacal controller to see through a plan to take over our dimension, and when the plan is put into motion forces him to call on long-hidden means of his mystical expertise to stop them.

This was a rather fun if decidedly odd killer shark film. Among the finer features here is the strong setup that allows this one to continue on with the bizarre storyline connections from the original. Featuring the means of trying to contact him after the initial encounter with him trapped in the spirit world confronting the series of minion creatures that have been summoned to battle him in this different environment, this allows for a fine spiritualistic follow-up to the original based on what happened to him in that one. The use of black magic and other forms of occult practices to talk to those that know how to go toe-to-toe with the occult practices to finally come up with the final way of defeating the madman. This type of action is a different take on the traditional shark movie formula as the mystical black magic is a new way to take everything and keeps this one going with enough cheesy reveals and confrontations to be interesting. There are a few factors present in the film. The main drawback is the more supernatural-based material present which is a fine approach to take but leaves this one with a pronounced lack of traditional shark action here. Focusing on the adventure-film scenario in the spirit realm involving the search for the owner of the shark's powers, this one features more scenes of confrontations in this location rather than horror scenarios with the killer shark taking out people. This helps to make the flimsy effects stand out more by having people stand around in front of bad green-screen locations than dealing with a killer creature so it's got little in the way of any expected effects, so it takes an entirely different route than normal for most of the film. These are what end up lowering this one somewhat.

Rated Unrated/R: Violence and Language.