Ouija: Origin of Evil
Came out; 2016
Time; 1 hour 39 Minutes
Watched: Netflix
Rated: PG-13 for disturbing images, terror and thematic elements
IMDB Rating; 6.2/10
Caution; Spoiler Alert
Staring.
Elizabeth Reaser as Alice Zander
Lulu Wilson as Doris Zander
Annalise Basso as Lina Zander
Henry Thomas as Father Tom
Parker Mack as Mikey
Story Line.
In 1967 Los Angeles, a young widow named Alice Zander works out of her suburban home as a spiritual medium, accompanied by her daughters, 15-year-old Paulina "Lina" and 9-year old Doris. The family is still reeling over the recent death of Roger, Alice's husband and the kids' father. At Lina's suggestion, Alice incorporates a Ouija board into her readings. While trying out the board, she unknowingly contacts a spirit named Marcus that begins to possess Doris. Alice receives a notice that the bank intends to foreclose on their home. Doris contacts the board for help, believing she is communicating with her dead father. The spirit leads her to a secret compartment behind the basement wall containing a pouch of cash. When she gives the money to her mother, the family has an Ouija session, believing they can contact Roger. When the board answers a question only Roger would know the answer to, a thrilled Alice begins believing that they are in contact with her dead husband..
Thoughts:
I thought I was re-watching this. I wasn't, there is another movie simply called Ouija. That's the one I watched. This one wasn't any better.
It had the creepy factor for sure, however the story line wasn't great.
I just have a hard time getting into “I've lived in this house for years but didn't know that was there” trope since most people know every inch of the house they live in.
CAUTION; Spoiler Alert
Los
Angeles, 1967
Mr.
Browning (Sam Anderson) and his younger wife Jenny (Kate Siegel) are
at the home of Alice Zander (Elizabeth Reaser), a fortune teller.
Alice gathers the couple around a table for a seance. Mr. Browning
wants to speak to his deceased wife and ask her questions. Jenny
isn't convinced and thinks they're getting ripped off. When Mr.
Browning asks about giving money to Jenny, something that supposedly
represents his dead wife's spirit creeps behind the curtains and
lunges out toward them. Mr. Browning is frightened beyond belief. He
attempts to pay Alice, but she declines out of guilt.
The
spirit is actually Alice's teenage daughter Paulina (Annalise Basso),
while her younger daughter Doris (Lulu Wilson) was hiding to create
the effects of candles blowing out. Alice scolds Lina for scaring Mr.
Browning and costing them their pay, but Lina defends her actions
because she thinks Jenny was a bitch. Alice agrees.
Lina
sneaks out at night to go to her friend Ellie's (Halle Charlton)
house. The two of them, plus Lina's boyfriend Mikey (Parker Mack) and
other friend Betty (Alexis G. Zall) play with a Ouija board game.
They try to contact a spirit, which creeps the hell out of Betty.
Ellie's mom bursts through the door, making Betty scream. Alice later
picks up Lina, upset with her.
While the girls are at school,
Alice goes to find a Ouija board of her own after Lina suggests it
could be good for business. At night, Alice uses the board and
unknowingly makes contact with a spirit named Marcus, who speaks
through Doris. Doris responds to Alice's questions, to Lina's
confusion.
Doris uses the Ouija board on her own - despite the
first rule of the game being not to play alone - in the hopes of
making contact with her dead father Roger (Michael Weaver).
At
school, Father Tom (Henry Thomas) calls Alice in to review Doris's
homework. It's all written in cursive, despite no one having
knowledge of Doris ever learning how to write like that.
Alice
and the girls return home to find a notice of foreclosure on their
door. Doris returns with a pouch full of money that she claims Roger
told her about. She shows her mom and sister a space in the basement
wall that contained the money. Later, Doris shows Alice and Lina how
she communicated with Roger. To their astonishment, the planchette
moves on its own when Alice asks the spirit where Roger was when she
told him she was pregnant with Lina. The planchette moves around to
spell "SHOWER". When Alice asks if Roger is really there,
it moves to YES. The girls look through the planchette lens to see if
they spot anything, but Lina is too freaked out to keep
looking.
Alice starts to keep Doris home from school to work
with her. Using the Ouija board, they have been generating more
business, as customers are convinced with Doris speaking in voices
that aren't hers and is answering questions only the deceased would
know. Doris later starts to experience a pain in the back of her
neck. After Lina gives her medicine, Doris looks through the
planchette in the mirror and sees a tall, black spirit with its mouth
sewn shut. Doris screams, and the spirit sticks its arm down her
mouth as it possesses her.
Alice goes out with Father Tom for
the night while Lina has Mikey come over as Doris watches TV. Tom
chooses not to pursue other relationships after his wife's passing,
as well as to keep with his faith. Lina and Mikey spend a brief time
together and only kiss before she kicks him out. As Mikey is leaving,
Doris startles him as she appears out of nowhere. She then starts to
describe being strangled to death in graphic and disturbing
detail.
Lina brings a bunch of papers written by Doris to Tom
at school. They are written in Polish, and Tom says he knows someone
at the school who can translate them for her.
In the
schoolyard, two boys that make fun of Doris are sitting on a bench
when one of them aims his slingshot at her head. Doris turns around
and stares the bully down and causes the kid to strike himself in the
face.
Lina finds one of her dolls has what look like stitches
drawn onto its mouth. She confronts Doris about it, but Doris claims
it was their dad that did it to "stop the voices".
Tom
visits the Zanders for a seance with Alice and Doris. He tries to
have them make contact with his deceased wife Gloria. He asks what
Gloria's middle name was. The planchette moves around to spell Lynn.
It then moves around to indicate a fight that happened between them
that Gloria forgives Tom for. Doris also makes a voice that sounds
like a grown woman. Tom then brings Alice and Lina upstairs to tell
them that Gloria's real middle name was Catherine, and that he tried
to manipulate the entity into doing what it did. He then explains to
the ladies what Doris wrote in her letters - it's a journal entry
from Marcus about a man they called the "Death Doctor", who
tortured people in that house with his experiments.
Mikey
shows up downstairs for Lina, and Doris greets him. She takes him to
the basement to show him something "cool". He sticks his
hand in the spot where the money was found. A mouthless skull pops
out. Doris's eyes go demonic and she starts rapidly whispering
something into Mikey's ear. Alice, Lina, and Tom go downstairs and
see Mikey's body drop with a noose around his neck. Lina freaks out,
but Alice tells her to calm down and find Doris.
The three
take the Ouija board downstairs to burn it in the furnace. They
discover the skull, as well as other bones from the people described
in the journals, which means they were playing in a graveyard this
whole time (which is against rule #2). The phonograph in the basement
turns on, and they hear Doris screaming. Tom crawls through a vent
and finds Doris. She attacks him with supernatural force and causes
him to break his neck as he is flown down the stairs.
Upstairs,
Alice and Lina find the Ouija board intact on the table. Alice is
grabbed by an unseen force, while Mikey's corpse swings by and grabs
Lina, throwing her to the stairs. Doris appears and starts whispering
things into Lina's ear. Alice pleads with the spirits to take her
instead of her daughters. The voices say they'll take all of
them.
Lina is pulled into her bedroom the day she confronted
Doris about her doll. She sees her father and understands now what
Doris meant by "stopping the voices".
Alice is being
dragged in the basement. Lina faces off Doris and the spirits. The
spirits try pulling Lina away as she reluctantly sews Doris's mouth
shut. When she is done, Doris appears normal and wakes up. She is
pulled up by Roger. In reality, Alice and Lina cry over Doris's body.
Lina is momentarily possessed and she stabs Alice. When she reverts
to normal, she tearfully begs her mother for forgiveness, but Alice
says she knows it wasn't her. She sees Roger and Doris standing
behind Lina before she dies.
Two months later, Lina is in a
mental hospital talking to Dr. Fuller (John Prosky) about what
happened to Doris's body. In her room, Lina makes her own Ouija board
on the floor with her blood and an eyeglass to contact Doris. Fuller
passes by Lina's room and sees what looks like Lina and Doris sitting
next to each other on the bed. When he turns to look back, he just
sees Lina staring at him. He doesn't see Doris running on the ceiling
toward him...
After the credits, we see an old Lina (Lin
Shaye) in her room as she is told someone claiming to be her niece is
there to see her (just like the first movie).
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