Saturday, August 14, 2021

Ouija Exorcism (2015)

When Joe was a kid, he took a ouija board from his fathers room and brought it to his friend Max’s house for a sleep over.  When they used it, things wet horribly wrong because a demon trapped in the board was released.

Joe was put in foster care after the incident and has no relationship with his father. When his father dies, they have a a gathering at the house where he reconnects with a girl he knew as a child who used to have a crush on him.

She invites him and his son Noah to join her, her daughter, and her boyfriend at the house they rented for the weekend.  This is a really weird set up. Would anyone really invite someone they hadn’t seen in thirty years to go on vacation with them?

Joe and Noah decide to go. But what Joe doesn’t know is that Noah brought the ouija board, which he found in his grandfathers house.  Things don’t go well because Noah unintentionally releases the demon.

This is a rough one.Amusement is to be had at the dishing washing scene where both the dishes and the dish cloth are dry.   And his childhood friend seems nuts.  She tells Joe they’ve been friends their whole lives. When he says he hasn’t seen her in thirty years, she angrily says, “How dare you! Do you have any idea how hard it was for me the first time you left?”  Lady, you were ten years old. Yes, it sucks to lose a friend but if you’re still traumatized thirty years later, you have issues.

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