IMDb plot summary: A girl takes her friends to a house with a dark past for a research project. They unwittingly summon an evil entity with plans of its own who makes the house part of its sinister game.
Directed by Ben Demaree. Starring Mischa Barton, Tara Reid, Carly Schroeder, and Dee Wallace.
This genre can occasionally be fun, but very often it follows the same pattern to the point where there's nothing genuinely scary happening in it. This is more the latter, particularly because the characters are such a letdown here. They don't have personalities, even caricatured ones, and they're forced into making illogical decisions to extend the tension when really it deflates it because I then get distracted thinking, "Wait, why are they going back inside the house, why aren't they trying to get to a hospital right now?" There's also the problem that since so much of this story revolves around Ouija board readings, a LOT of the "scary" scenes are just spelling out a potential threat one letter at a time. That works early on, and the film does its best to speed up these revelations later, but it still makes it difficult to raise the stakes as the story goes on. There's nothing to recommend this one over other similar stories.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Ouija House < Fahrenheit 451
Ouija House < The Professional
Ouija House < Madagascar
Ouija House > The Notebook
Ouija House > Hollywoodland
Ouija House < Shrek the Third
Ouija House > How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
Ouija House > The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Ouija House > It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
Ouija House > Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
Ouija House < A Fantastic Fear of Everything
Final spot: #3031 out of 3399, or 11%.
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