A.C.’s Review: Hollywood,
desperate for anything with name recognition has spun off movies based
on anything from Disney rides like PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN to video
games such
as HOUSE OF DEAD. Scrapping the bottom of the barrel we have at long
last come to board games in this case the Ouija game where spirits move
the triangle shaped device across a board in order to make contact with
the living. I played it as a kid and of course
someone was pushing it around or it wouldn’t make much of a game.
In
2014 the film presents a group of friends trying to make contact with a
recently deceased classmate who was the victim of an apparent suicide.
However the girl
was actually murdered by a malevolent spirit she unleashed while
playing the game alone. Soon the group finds themselves tormented by the
same spirit that starts picking them off one by one. Can the lead girl
played by Olivia Cooke vanquish the spirit before
no one is left alive? Trust me it’s hard to care.
The
group of “students” is not very likable and it’s easier to root for the
demon spirit. Also its harder to choose what’s more unbelievable…demons
actually being
unleashed by a Hasbro game or 30 year old adults playing what we are
supposed to believe are school kids in the 11th & 12th grade. This is a completely disposable film but it drew in its target market…the theater was filled with teen
girls looking for a good “scare”.
Best Scene: One of the “kids” getting tossed by a demon onto a covered pool and killed by the pool cover actively drowning him.
A.C.’s Rating: Not even DVD. Free on TV if nothing else is on
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