A group of friends must confront their most terrifying fears when they awaken the dark powers of an ancient spirit board. Olivia Cooke is a pretty good actress plus she also deserved better than this movie. I've only seen the prequel until today of course and all the things i have heard regarding this movie? were true. It was silly, the whole haunting thing and the ghost were just stupid and not scary for sure either. The characters were pretty dumb and the way just from the film's opening i knew we were in big and pretty deep trouble for sure i guess. (0/10)

A supernatural tale realistically done, with a theme we can all relate to: losing someone we love. Thanks to a good cast and a believable plot, this was scary as hell. Great visuals, as well.

I had heard the title for this scary movie a number of times, it was only after seeing the trailer for the sequel, Origin of Evil, that I decided to watch it, despite being panned by critics. Basically childhood friends Laine Morris (Afra Sophia Tully) and Debbie Galardi (Claire Beale) used to play with an Ouija board, now in the present day, Laine (Olivia Cooke) throws the board in the fire, burning it. However, the board reappears in Debbie's room, she is possessed and hangs herself, Laine and her boyfriend Trevor (Daren Kagasoff), younger sister Sarah (Ana Coto), friend Isabelle (Bianca A. Santos), and Debbie's boyfriend Pete (Douglas Smith) attend her funeral. After the wake, the five friends find the Ouija board, Laine suggests using it communicate with Debbie's spirit, strange things happen during their session, including Pete smashing his head into the mirror. Soon after, the friends start finding the phrase "hi friend" (a message communicated during the Ouija board session) written in various places, including in a car window, on a tunnel wall, on a desk and on Laine's computer. Thinking it is Debbie communicating with them, they have another board session, but they realise they have actually come into contact with another spirit of the house. Laine looks through the board's planchette and sees the image of a little girl with her mouth sewn shut, the girl warns her mother is coming, then she sees an old woman, and the group flee. Laine later learns that Debbie found the Ouija board in her attic and played with it alone, then Isabelle is possessed and killed, she smashes her head and cracks her skull open on the bathroom sink. Laine and Pete decide to investigate the house, in the attic they finds photographs belonging to the previous residents, and searching the family history, they find out the little girl, Doris (Sunny May Allison) went missing, her mother was suspected of the disappearance. Laine finds Doris's now elderly sister, Paulina (Insidious's Lin Shaye), committed to a psychiatric hospital, she explains that her mother was a medium, and used Doris's as a vessel for the dead to speak through, the mother went mad, stitched up Doris's mouth, and killed herself. Paulina tells Laine about a secret room in the house, where she must find Doris's hidden body and unstitch her mouth in order to banish the mother. The remaining friends return to the Galardi house, Laine finds the corpse and cuts the mouth stitches, Doris's spirit appears to chase the ghost of the mother away, but shortly after, Pete is possessed and is killed at home, appearing as a ghost with his mouthy sewn shut. Returning to Paulina, Laine realises the old woman intentionally lied, Doris is actually the evil entity, the mother was trying to stop the friends summoning her with the board. The Morris's grandmother, Nona (Vivis Colombetti), advises the sisters destroy Doris's body and the Ouija board at the same time, Trevor is then killed, being possessed and thrown into the swimming pool, filled with plastic wrapping, he is trapped and drowns. Laine and Sarah return to the Galardi house cellar, Sarah is captured by Doris and prepares to sew her mouth shut, but the spirit's attention is drawn by Laine playing with the Ouija board. Doris attempts to possess her, but Debbie's spirit appears, helps save Laine and defeat Doris, her body is thrown into the furnace, and Laine throws the Ouija board. The paranormal activity is over, but in her bedroom, Laine finds the planchette has mysteriously appeared, she looks through its glass hole, the picture fades to black, it is unclear if she saw anything. Also starring Matthew Settle as Mr. Morris, Robyn Lively as Mrs. Galardi, Claudia Katz Minnick as Mother and Morgan Peter Brown as Young Sarah. Everyone has tried having a seance in some way at some point, for fun or for reason, this film is based on the Hasbro "talking board" idea, unfortunately it is full of flaws, the contrived shocks are minimal, there is little gore and imagination with the deaths, and the story is predictable, that popular seance question "is anybody there?" could easily be aimed at the audience, let's hope the sequel is better, a pretty boring horror. Adequate!

The most amazing thing about this movie is that one of the production companies is the toy company Hasbro, who manufactures the Ouija board. I find it funny and interesting that they use the movie to push their product... something that will contact the dead and will probably cause your gruesome death.This is an enjoyable, though a pretty basic, horror movie. Best friends, Laine and Debbie, play with the Ouija as children obeying the rules that they should be courteous and never play alone. Years later, Debbie uses the board by herself and strange things start to happen, which results in her growing distant from her friends and boyfriend. Using the ouija in solitary leads to her violent death.Laine agrees to house sit for Debbies distraught parents after the funeral as they need to get away. She realises the board had a part to play in her friend's death so rallies the others to help here prove the idea. Of course, this is a bad idea and the spirit they contact starts to plague them in their lives. From here on in, it's a race to save themselves and to solve the mystery of the origin of the board.There's nothing really new in this film that hasn't been covered before. The acting of the entire cast is above average and makes the film enjoyable to watch, as is the direction from Stiles White, who co-wrote the story with Juliet Snowden. Since this is a Blumhouse production there's a cameo from Lin Shaye, who, as always is good in her role (though I will always remember her as the landlady in Kingpin).This is one of those films that's worth watching if it comes onto telly and there's nothing better on. At least worth watching once, though I don't think I'll watch it again... though I will watch the sequel when it's on or if I can borrow it from friends.