Ouija (Film)

First of all, before I began my review, you have to know what "ouija" means. Ouija is a board with letters and numbers arranged on it, including the terms "YES", "NO" and "Goodbye, used to communicate with spirits or ghosts. The rules of playing the ouija board according to the movie are as follows :
1. Do NOT play alone
2. Do NOT treat it like a game.
3. Always end it with Goodbye.

Because it's October, the month of Haloween, cinemas around the world are being spammed with horror movies. OUIJA seemed interesting to me, having just watched Annabelle and was fairly disappointed with it. 

As the title had already pretty much gave away the plot, the story revolves around 5 friends who got themselves into a ouija drama after their best friend, Debbie died due to playing with it alone. Supposedly she conjured an evil spirit named "DV" who started haunting and possessing her, leading to her suicide. 

The main protagonist, Laine, stupidly and obsessively wanted to know more about Debbie's suicide and decided to include her other 4 friends into conducting a few Ouija sessions to communicate with the dead Debbie. Of course, like any other horror movie, they managed to conjure the bad ghosts. The spirit, known as Doris Velor (or something like that) appeared with a stiched mouth in a few boos and bahhs moments (yes, cue the annoying sound effects) and began haunting the teens, killing them off one by one. (Cliche, yes...) It seemed like the ghost's mother was made of pure evil.

After her friends started dying, obviously because of her personal selfish obsession, Laine panically started looking for solutions to end the hauntings. She met DV's mentally ill sister who was put in an asylum due to murdering their mother (supposedly she was practising dark magic and used Doris as a vessel to keep the bad spirits) and told her to remove the stitching from the mouth of DV's corpse to stop their supposedly evil mother from terrorising the teens.

So the stupid Laine did as told and of course, the movie had its twisted plot. You can predict how it goes from here.

Overall, I'd give it an 7/10 for the sound effects and creepiness of the ghost appearances. But, the storyline was a true repetition of ALL the horror stories we have already seen. They could have focused more on the history of the ouija and place a better ending.

And finally, What's with the newspaper cuttings? Seriously movie writers have got to find other ways to flashback the past besides the usual "finding old newspaper cuttings in old boxes". Like seriously, who keeps these articles with the evidence together in a box?!

Ghostly,

Ms Anne.