Directed by: Mike Flanagan
Starring by: Elizabeth Reaser, Lulu Wilson, Annalise Baso
Production: Blumhouse Production, Hasbro Studio
I never expect Ouija will come
with sequel, it clearly told how it ends from the beginning. So that’s why I
was curious to know how they do the continuity from the previous to Ouija, The
Origin of Evil and what is the twist to go there.
It turned out happened in 1967
at Los Angeles when a widow named Alice work out as fortune teller in order to
make living for her two daughter, Lina – the eldest – and Doris – the youngest
– with some excuse of what they’re doing was only to help people who desperate
and need an answer from spiritual thing. The truth is Alice trick people
cleverly with her equipment so it looks like she had contact to spiritual world
naturally.
When Lina encounter Ouija
board from a party, she suggest her mom to combine the reading with it. Lina
agreed and makes modification with magnet to do so. While doing the preparation,
unknowingly she made contact with spirit name Marcus who possessed Doris then.
Lina ends the game without saying goodbye and that broke the rules of ouija. Do
you still remember the rule? Never play it alone, never play it on the
graveyard, always end it with saying goodbye…
After that night Doris acts
strangely, she contacts a number of spirits with the board which she plays all
by herself and one of the spirits was her father, who lead her to secret
compartment on the basement that contain a pouch of full cash inside. When she
gave the money to Alice as prove that she actually speak to Roger, the three
have Ouija session and found out the planchette of glass moves on its own in
front of their eyes. Alice thrilled to see many questions that only Roger would
know the answer were answered correctly and begin to belief that they’re in
contact with another world. So she keeps Doris home to learn more to built
channel into psychic reading.
Lina who’s being disturbed by
Doris’s change bring the paper that wrote fluently in Polish by Doris to Father
Tom. The priest reveals the paper as journal of Polish immigrant who has been
kept in the basement of the house and it explains how he died when being
captive there. He decided to meet Doris and asked to contact his deceive wife,
Gloria. During the session he studied that Doris actually not contact with
Gloria but read his thought and repeating what in his mind while he’s
questioning about her occult performance but some evil spirit definitely take
control of Doris so he suggesting exorcism to Alice and Lina.
After Doris killed Lina’s
boyfriend, Alice and Lina bring the Ouija board to the basement in order to
destroy it. Before they throw the board to the furnace to burn it, Father Tom
discovers skeletal remains that left behind in the wall of the basement so they
realize that they’ve been using Ouija board in a graveyard all this time and it
explain all about the journal whom written by Polish man. The priest was being
attack by Doris after he possessed by spirit that make Alice and Lina had to
run upstairs.
Upstairs, Lina and Alice find
the board restored on the table and both captured by Doris. The spirit of Roger
recalling the moment when her dolls’ mouth was stitched up and that’s the only
way to shut the spirit inside Doris…that she had to sew her sister’s mouth to
calm the spirit’s voices and stop it permanently. Lina went downstairs to confront Doris that
restrained their other. She managed to sew Doris’s mouth and explain to Alice
that it was necessary to stop the spirit but Lina got possessed a while and
stab Alice to death.
Two months later, Lina was
being held by mental hospital for the conviction of murdering her mother. She’s
interviewed by doctor who’s trying to determine what happened but disoriented
Lina was unable to answer what happened to Doris’ body, only saying that Alice
was wrong, and they were not alone. Later in the ends of post credit scene, it shows
elderly Lina remains in the asylum and receive a visit from someone that claim
to be her niece…and that’s how the twist of continuity goes…
Well, it really quite
remarkable storyline they did here and besides that Mike Flanagan make good job
about the picture as well. The movie surely taking by digital camera as they
used nowadays but in order to make the film looks like something that filming
in 1967 he built image effect at the post-production. You could see every 20
minutes the black dot appears in the upper right corner of the frame and the
frame composition he used really reminds of how old filmmakers composite their
films.
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