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"Ouija" is a dead teenager movie aimed squarely at a teen audience.
Universal's effort to reclaim its place as the Home for Horror takes a step backward with this duller-than-dull 89 minutes. Frankly, the board game is scarier, but only if you break the rules.
As kids, Debbie (Shelley Hennig) and Laine (Olivia Cooke) knew 'em: Never play alone. Never play in a graveyard. Always say "Good-bye."
But as a teen, Debbie's picked up a board, toyed with the magical "unseen hand" planchette, with its eye hole for spying ghosts. Next thing you know, she's hanged herself.
Laine is beside herself. Well, not exactly. Cooke, the star of this cast of pretty bland young things, rarely suggests much emotion at all. And the others take their lead from her.
Laine wants some closure, so she picks up Debbie's board, rounds up her boyfriend (Daren Kagasoff), her Goth-brat sister (Ana Coto), the dead girl's beau (Douglas Smith) and the exotic Isabelle (Bianca A. Santos) for a little seance.
Read more http://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/movies/2014/10/24/ouija-movie-review/17787449/
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Universal's effort to reclaim its place as the Home for Horror takes a step backward with this duller-than-dull 89 minutes. Frankly, the board game is scarier, but only if you break the rules.
As kids, Debbie (Shelley Hennig) and Laine (Olivia Cooke) knew 'em: Never play alone. Never play in a graveyard. Always say "Good-bye."
But as a teen, Debbie's picked up a board, toyed with the magical "unseen hand" planchette, with its eye hole for spying ghosts. Next thing you know, she's hanged herself.
Laine is beside herself. Well, not exactly. Cooke, the star of this cast of pretty bland young things, rarely suggests much emotion at all. And the others take their lead from her.
Laine wants some closure, so she picks up Debbie's board, rounds up her boyfriend (Daren Kagasoff), her Goth-brat sister (Ana Coto), the dead girl's beau (Douglas Smith) and the exotic Isabelle (Bianca A. Santos) for a little seance.
Read more http://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/movies/2014/10/24/ouija-movie-review/17787449/
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