TL;DR The only point in a ouija board being in this story is to cash in on the trend in horror movies. An obvious and clumsy rewrite of a different story with glaring plot holes made larger to fit the concept. Watch only with friends who like to riff inexcusably bad movies.
From the studio title card "EGYWOOD" you know this one is going to try to hard and fail miserably. From the word go the set up is vague and incredibly forced. . Badly paced, sloppily written, with a nonsense non-resolution this had my house roaring with laughter and yelling in outrage. There is a moment of genuine emotion from the father at the end but most of the time you are questioning the constant stream of bad choices and clumsily acted scenes.
Opening scene is a woman arriving at her mother's house, wandering until she finds a oujia board sitting in a patio door, she kicks it outside in disgust for no apparent , and is shortly murdered by her ?sister? At no time is the use of the ouija board established as the cause for this, in fact it has no point even being in the movie. The girl who gets haunted by ?grandma's? ghost that tells her to kill voluntarily or she'll murder them anyways isn't the only using the board.
And how does the board even get into the girls possession? A jerk friend who tags along for a camping trip needs to pee so the boyfriend for some reason pulls up next to the murder house, which is still covered in crime scene tape. The jerk claims he hears crying, the go in *facepalm* and she hears crying. Here is where she becomes haunted and it's moments after this the douche pops up with a board he found outside. The board has NOTHING to do with the movie. It could have been used if they followed through with the possession story line but that dies off with the second death when the boyfriend gets killed. A much younger looking ghost spooks him into driving into a dirt lot where a random stream of gas from 30' in front of him sets off a cliche car explosion that would never happen in a outside of a 80's cop movie. This set up is so weak it is hilarious. Why he was ever there is never explained since they used the hijacked GPS plot device but he didn't have anywhere to be other than going home.
There are a few interesting traits of the ghost but by horror standards it violates basic rules of a haunted character by not using the titular story device as the haunting method, killing far away from the haunted person, conflating possession with haunting in order to bring in the priest plotline, and ignoring the promise the ghost keeps making to not kill more if she does the deed itself, which itself is a rule that constantly changes .
The final scene was obvious and during the death of the lead we are shown flashbacks of the ghost's motivation. She accidentally killed a family member in a domestic, who we never see in the story. This could have been explained better organically during the movie but instead it's two random choppy scenes with the overlayed audio that only makes the scene confusing and for some reason she forgives the ghost, forced to the end. It's like two scripts combined and a hasty rewrite.
From the studio title card "EGYWOOD" you know this one is going to try to hard and fail miserably. From the word go the set up is vague and incredibly forced. . Badly paced, sloppily written, with a nonsense non-resolution this had my house roaring with laughter and yelling in outrage. There is a moment of genuine emotion from the father at the end but most of the time you are questioning the constant stream of bad choices and clumsily acted scenes.
Opening scene is a woman arriving at her mother's house, wandering until she finds a oujia board sitting in a patio door, she kicks it outside in disgust for no apparent , and is shortly murdered by her ?sister? At no time is the use of the ouija board established as the cause for this, in fact it has no point even being in the movie. The girl who gets haunted by ?grandma's? ghost that tells her to kill voluntarily or she'll murder them anyways isn't the only using the board.
And how does the board even get into the girls possession? A jerk friend who tags along for a camping trip needs to pee so the boyfriend for some reason pulls up next to the murder house, which is still covered in crime scene tape. The jerk claims he hears crying, the go in *facepalm* and she hears crying. Here is where she becomes haunted and it's moments after this the douche pops up with a board he found outside. The board has NOTHING to do with the movie. It could have been used if they followed through with the possession story line but that dies off with the second death when the boyfriend gets killed. A much younger looking ghost spooks him into driving into a dirt lot where a random stream of gas from 30' in front of him sets off a cliche car explosion that would never happen in a outside of a 80's cop movie. This set up is so weak it is hilarious. Why he was ever there is never explained since they used the hijacked GPS plot device but he didn't have anywhere to be other than going home.
There are a few interesting traits of the ghost but by horror standards it violates basic rules of a haunted character by not using the titular story device as the haunting method, killing far away from the haunted person, conflating possession with haunting in order to bring in the priest plotline, and ignoring the promise the ghost keeps making to not kill more if she does the deed itself, which itself is a rule that constantly changes .
The final scene was obvious and during the death of the lead we are shown flashbacks of the ghost's motivation. She accidentally killed a family member in a domestic, who we never see in the story. This could have been explained better organically during the movie but instead it's two random choppy scenes with the overlayed audio that only makes the scene confusing and for some reason she forgives the ghost, forced to the end. It's like two scripts combined and a hasty rewrite.
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