![]() ![]() It renounces the faux-found-footage Shak圜am style, instead employing a traditionally smooth visual style. Ouija has a steady directorial hand, some attractive young actors who taking the silliness seriously and few admirable genre elements. ![]() Laine at least has a reason for not throwing out the killer board: she’s ready to risk her life to help Debbie achieve a more restful afterlife. In a dark house, why don’t the kids think to turn on the lights, or to employ the buddy system when entering a room where evil lurks? Because they’re in a horror movie! Ouija also honors the convention of characters whose IQs dip ominously as their peril increases. Like Annabelle, Ouija is an old-fashioned horror movie that dabbles in many familiar scare tactics: doors mysteriously creaking open or slamming shut, chandeliers swaying, stove burners spontaneously igniting, dolls that may have a malevolent life of their own, dark secrets lurking in a Psycho-inspired cellar. (Moral for impressionable kids: Don’t floss.) As the tub water overflows, some power lifts her body a few feet in the air, then smashes her skull against the porcelain sink. She turns to the mirror and is startled to see that her mouth has been sewn shut by the floss. Isabelle (Bianca Santos, the Angelina Jolie clone from ABC Family’s The Fosters) is in her bathroom, drawing the tub water and flossing her teeth. Anyway, someone, or some thing, is killing off Laine’s seance friends in generically gruesome fashion… The “Hi friend” message seems to have been sent not by Debbie but by some other restless spirit - perhaps a child murdered by her mother in the same house. Debbie’s family has conveniently vacated the premises, leaving Laine to keep an eye on things, from this world and the next. Laine (Olivia Cooke, who played the possessed girl in this April’s The Quiet Ones) thinks she can use the board to connect with the dead girl. When teenage Debbie (Shelley Hennig) hangs herself after consulting a Ouija board, her lifelong b.f. Ouija might simply give them a smart case of the shakes, with a seasonal afterchill. 1 this weekend - a nice relaxing diversion for Americans ready to flee their TVs, having been terrified by much of the news and social media that Isis or Ebola will kill them. Industry savants predict that Ouija will be No. Annabelle, made for just $6.5 million, opened early this month to $37.1 million and in three weeks has taken in $75 million, plus another $90 million in foreign markets. This October looks more dreadful, by which we mean rosier for the horror movie business. ![]()
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