Terror awaits five friends who unwittingly awaken a dark power by using an antique Ouija board.Terror awaits five friends who unwittingly awaken a dark power by using an antique Ouija board.Terror awaits five friends who unwittingly awaken a dark power by using an antique Ouija board.
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Bianca A. Santos
- Isabelle
- (as Bianca Santos)
Sierra Hawkins
- Doris Zander
- (as Sierra Heuermann)
Claudia Katz Minnick
- Mother
- (as Claudia Katz)
Vivis Colombetti
- Nona
- (as Vivis)
Afra Sophia Tully
- Young Laine
- (as Afra Tully)
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A door closing. An eye changing colour. Another door closing. If any of these things frighten you, you'll still find Ouija boring.
The acting is wooden (even from the usually good Olivia Cooke), every plot development is telegraphed and predictable, and the whole thing reads like a first draft full of placeholder dialogue.
After watching it, I was completely unsurprised to find that half the film had been re-shot and the last 20 minutes completely added from scratch.
It's a film with no scares, no good dialogue, no interesting ideas, nothing at all. It's completely and totally vacuous.
The acting is wooden (even from the usually good Olivia Cooke), every plot development is telegraphed and predictable, and the whole thing reads like a first draft full of placeholder dialogue.
After watching it, I was completely unsurprised to find that half the film had been re-shot and the last 20 minutes completely added from scratch.
It's a film with no scares, no good dialogue, no interesting ideas, nothing at all. It's completely and totally vacuous.
Horror is one of those genres that creates such voting and reviewing hostility on internet sites. You can guarantee that no matter what new horror film comes out it will garner posts on the likes of IMDb as being "the worst horror film I have ever seen". That is until the next big release, where we will go around the houses again...
Ouija is just a standard boo-jump horror picture with a standard story line. Any expectation of any thing more would have (will do) led (lead) to great disappointment. It's one of those horror films that asks you to turn off the lights and just enjoy the quick spooky ride, then you get off the ride and quickly move on to something else. It's neither "the worst horror film of all time" or anything remotely original. It's Boo-Jump horror 101, so buy into that or leave it well alone. 6/10
Ouija is just a standard boo-jump horror picture with a standard story line. Any expectation of any thing more would have (will do) led (lead) to great disappointment. It's one of those horror films that asks you to turn off the lights and just enjoy the quick spooky ride, then you get off the ride and quickly move on to something else. It's neither "the worst horror film of all time" or anything remotely original. It's Boo-Jump horror 101, so buy into that or leave it well alone. 6/10
Along with found footage horror, teen horrors tend to be my least favourite of the genre, but here's an exception.
Good story, the teens aren't annoying, and it's well acted.
Certainly worth a watch if supernatural horror is your thing, some good scares and it's suspenseful.
Don't understand how people can rate this 4 and below
Good story, the teens aren't annoying, and it's well acted.
Certainly worth a watch if supernatural horror is your thing, some good scares and it's suspenseful.
Don't understand how people can rate this 4 and below
Holds your interest throughout though it's not on a par with, say, Hell House. The cast is attractive and capable and the effects pretty good. The main reason to watch is Ana Coto, a young actress as full of charm as a peach is full of sweetness. If I had my way she'd be a star.
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. However they unleash evil spirits that threat them.
"Ouija" is unoriginal movie even in the title since there are many "Ouija" movies. 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. The story is boring, the acting of Olivia Cooke is weak for a lead actress and the screenplay does not help. The plot point of this forgettable movie does not have anything special. My vote is four.
Title (Brazil): "Ouija: O Jogo dos Espíritos" ("Ouija: The Game of the Spirits")
"Ouija" is unoriginal movie even in the title since there are many "Ouija" movies. 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. The story is boring, the acting of Olivia Cooke is weak for a lead actress and the screenplay does not help. The plot point of this forgettable movie does not have anything special. My vote is four.
Title (Brazil): "Ouija: O Jogo dos Espíritos" ("Ouija: The Game of the Spirits")
Did you know
- TriviaThe film's tagline, "Keep telling yourself it's just a game," was used for several years as the advertising slogan for the Ouija board game.
- Goofs(at around 9 mins) In the film's second scene Debbie hangs herself using a string of lights from her bedroom, in every shot after this the lights remain in their original location.
- Quotes
Laine Morris: I just want to stop whatever is happening. My friends are dying.
- Alternate versionsA completely different version of the film was shown to a test audience. After negative feedback, the film was partially re-shot with several story and cast changes. Scenes from this version appear in some trailers, but has otherwise not been shown in it's entirety since.
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- Also known as
- Trò Chơi Gọi Hồn
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- Budget
- $5,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $50,856,010
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $19,875,995
- Oct 26, 2014
- Gross worldwide
- $103,687,316
- Runtime
- 1h 29m(89 min)
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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