OUIJA

Blumhouse Production

Directed by: Stiles White

Starring by: Olivia Cooke, Ana Coto, Douglas Smith, Darren Kagasoff

Well, I watched this film at Malang when I had my Book Talk Show, after having the event we goes to the cinema; me, my writer-friend Novan, and my cousins Mia and Tata. Too bad our friend Nadya decided to go back to Jember so she can’t come with us…we don’t understand why she prefers Jember than us…but it’s your lost girl hehehe..

A little bit confuse between Interstellar or this film, but finally we pick this one because the showing time was match for our next schedule to go to Batu, and I shout to myself, Yeeeeeaaahhh, I could make preview for this film at no cost, finally…hehehe…other reason why I want to see this film, tough it only get mediocre rating, it’s because I also make horror comic with the same title this year…    

It opens with two little girl, Laine and Debbie, playing the board. Debbie give three rules for playing it safely, “Always remember the three rules: Don’t play the board on the grave, Don’t play it alone, and always say good bye…”. The frame dissolved to present time when Debbie grown up as teenagers and picked up by Debbie to come to school event. Debbie acting weirdly and make Laine wonders. The opening scene ends with Debbie committing suicide by hanging herself in the house.

Debbie’s death shocking her friends, especially Laine, and curiosity drives them to investigate her death. It leads Laine to invite other to make contact to Ouija board and asked how’s she could died. The contact made them linked to spirit with initial D.Z and Mother that keep following with terror everywhere they go with a message, “Hii Friend…”

I have to raise my thumb because this film give the shock that make audience yell or terrified until nearly half periods of it without performing the ghost appearance at all. The first look of the ghost happened when Laine see through the glass of oujia tools. A ghost with stitched at her mouth and angry old woman that thrown up everything. From the play that they’re doing at Debbie’s house, spirit that haunts possessed and killed them one by one.

To solve the problem, Laine try to find out who D.Z, the girl that named Dorris Zander, is which bring her to mental institution to meet Doris cousin, Paulina Zander. She said that the spirit become stronger if they not release the stitched on Dorris mouth, so they have to open it. It turns out that Paulina and Dorris was the true evil and Mother just try to stop them, stitching Dorris mouth to hold evil comes out from her.

The coolest thing from the open word of little Debbie is it turns out that she’s playing the Ouija on the grave, which is the house that become the grave of Dorris Zander, and playing it alone, perhaps the adult concept that avoiding superstitious childhood that believe Ouija board is a real supranatural board. So, she broke two of the rules that she said herself…

How’s the end? I think it’s better if you watched it on your own, tough I realized some of you who like horror movie probably could guess the ends easily, but I do like the final scene when Laine putting a dental floss to her mouth that make all audience sight, “YYYYAAAAAHHHHH….” Because it remind them at the scene when Isabella get killed. The girl was having her mouth stitched by dental floss also.

It’s good to see Olivia Cook’s act, after she’s having a good one on The Quiet Ones as Jane Harper. My friend, Novan, said Olivia's face was like Indonesian horror actress that often get main character, Julie Estelle and how come he’s hoping Pulina Zander not died because she’s the prettiest one?  

Likewise, I saw some clumsiness on this film, at the opening scene when Debbie was about to get suicide, she drags string of light from her bedroom and how come the light still on after she pulled it and used by her as a hanging tool. The string of light also remains on its original location at every next scene when Laine entering Debbie’s room couple of time. And just take a look after Debbie closed the back door. She jumped out to hear the sound of stove that turning on by itself. The show it’s from above with a kettle next to it, but when the girl turned off the stove, the kettle was on top of the ring.

My cousin, Mia, was a doctor gives a comment about the needle that was used by Dorris spirit to stitch Sarah’s mouth is way to big than normal surgery needle. The shape is just like that, fishing angle similar-like, only smaller. And that leads me to other thought, it's impossible for Laine to open the stitched because Dorris had died many years ago. Human lip was part of the skin that surely rotten and decompose, therefore the thread must be released itself according to time….  

Onward, though we’re having good times and laughing this film together, the rules to playing safe has to be considered, “Always remember the three rules: Don’t play the board on the grave, don’t play it alone, and always say good bye…” So I say it now unto you….Good Bye….