Is it too much to ask for an original horror movie? Or at least one with characters that are
actually three dimensional? With
dialogue that doesn’t suck?
Here’s the story: a
girl uses a Ouija board, summons an evil spirit and is killed. Then her friends decide to use the same Ouija
board to try and contact her. They
summon the same evil spirit, and they’re killed off one by one. Along the way, they consult a crazy old woman
in an insane asylum who knows what’s going on and how to stop it. This involves finding a hidden room in the
basement of the old house where many years before, a family was killed …
After the initial killing, the movie is really boring for
about a half hour. There are a couple of
minor scares, but mostly we’re watching forgettable characters with nothing
interesting to say to each other. The
climax of the movie is exciting for about five minutes, and there was one thing
that happened that really freaked me out.
But otherwise, I was just bored.
It’s funny how out of nowhere, the main character’s old
housekeeper knows exactly what to do.
We’ve only seen her a couple times in the movie and we get no backstory
on her. But because every horror movie
needs a character like that, she’s the one who can tell the kids how to stop
the evil spirit.
If all you’re looking for is a scary movie to make you jump
a few times, this will do the trick. But
that’s all the movie has going for itself.
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