Ouija
viewers reviews
'Sentiment: Negative ☹️'
A door closing. An eye changing colour. Another door closing. If any of these things frighten you, you'll still find Ouija boring.The acting is wooden (even from the usually good Olivia Cooke), every plot development is telegraphed and predictable, and the whole thing reads like a first draft full of placeholder dialogue.After watching it, I was completely unsurprised to find that half the film had been re-shot and the last 20 minutes completely added from scratch.It's a film with no scares, no good dialogue, no interesting ideas, nothing at all. It's completely and totally vacuous.
'Sentiment: Positive 🙂'
This movie was by no means a cinematic masterpiece, however can you really expect something of such high quality when the entire premise is based around a Ouija board that wreaks havoc upon a group of close friends.Watching this film, my desire to watch a somewhat corny and predictable horror/thriller was achieved with ease. As someone who has been warned time and time again about the dangers of using supernatural means to attempt to contact the dead, I found this movie to be highly entertaining in a cheap-thrills kind of way.If you are looking for a simple, cliché supernatural themed movie to watch with close friends for a movie night, I'd definitely recommend. This movie is neither terribly unbearable nor disgustingly gory, and as such I feel is relatively inoffensive to those who enjoy these themes in their movies.
'Sentiment: Positive 🙂'
Ouija is one of those that feels like an Asian horror film remade for an American audience. And also it feels like a horror film from the 80's. I don't consider this film a great film, not something I would want to own, but has a horror film it does deliver the jump scares.The young leads in the film are pretty descent, but some of the other characters are hit and miss. The film does have some good twists and turns you sometimes won't see coming, but in some ways if you seen films The Ring(2000), and The Grudge(2004), so maybe Ouija will seem like nothing new, but still an entertaining film. See this movie if you're in the mood for some jump scares.
