Sunday, August 15, 2021

Ouija House (2018)

 When her mothers house goes through foreclosure, Laurie pushes to finish her research in the paranormal in the hope she can buy back the house with the money from her upcoming publishing deal.  When she tells her mother she’s going to an old family property, her mother warns her to stay away due to the history of witchcraft.

Laurie, her boyfriend Nick, along with friends Spence and Tina head out to the house where they met up with her cousin Sam.  The caretaker unexpectedly shows up and gets upset because Sam said she was going to be there alone.  They ignore his warnings and make excuses as to why they’re going to stay.

When they find a ouija board in the house, they decide to play. The rules are: never play alone; never play where someone has been murdered; and always say good bye.  They decide to break rule two by playing in the house. 

After some strange goings on, skanky Tina decides she wants to be a human ouija board, draws letters on her body, and grabs a large smooth stone to use as the planchette. Why, Tina, why?  And why does Laurie  go along with it? There is tension in the group because last month Tina kissed Laurie’s boyfriend at a party. No way would I want my boyfriends hands anywhere near this womans body.

The human ouija experience gets worse when the stone used as the planchette moves up her body, into her mouth, and down her throat. No one tries to stop it. They just stand there and stare while she chokes.  Apparently no one knows the Heimlich maneuver because no one tries to dislodge the stone in her throat. 

To make things weirder, it turns out the house is actually a ouija board. This leads to the most ridiculous scenes where they uncover the letters underneath the wallpaper in various places in the house and play a real life game of ouija with the possessed ouija board girl growling and running from letter to letter to spell out messages.  Gadzooks movie, how? Why? 

Ridiculous dialogue:

Caretaker: There’s mold in the house. It’s not safe if you breathe it.
Idiot: Oh can’t we just stay a few days?

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