Director: Stiles White
Starring: Olivia Cooke, Ana Coto, Darren Kagasoff
My Rating: Didn't like it
Budget: $5 Million
Ouija has some creepily effective moments, but they are way too few and far between. All of the dialogue is paper-thin, and very little of it interesting at all. There is one slightly good turn of plot, but one interesting twist does not make up for a movie full of shit. Ouija is just not very exciting. It's not a slow-burner or a very fast paced movie. It's more of a boring movie that you have to trudge through the lulls and make sure you don't blink for a few of the scary parts. Ouija is mainly valleys, with a few small and scary peaks.
Ouija would be a perfect film to make a Scary Movie type spoof of, because there were a few moments in this flick that were already verging on that territory. If the connection between the spirit and the kids was growing stronger, What in the world was the spirit waiting on? Ya know? Kill the kids already and get it over with.
Ouija really is an awful movie, but it seems that, given its small budget, it's already a huge box office success. It goes to show that America loves horror movies, no matter how shitty they are. I'm sure teenagers can find some stuff to be scared about in this movie, but to a jaded mid-twenties horror movie lover Ouija is painfully bad.