Sentences with phrase «film ouija»

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Helming solid horror flicks like Hush and Ouija: Origin of Evil, I knew that this film was in good hands, even though I truthfully didn't know much about it when going in.

Since then, director Mike Flanagan has become a hotter horror property, with another Netflix film, Hush, the Karen Gillan - led Oculus, and the sequel - no - one - wanted - but - actually - wasn't - bad Ouija: Origin of Evil all pointing him out as one to watch.

In this film, when an investigator was trying to contact spirits, he used a set of dice that had letters on them that was basically a variation of a Ouija board but it was SO MUCH FUCKING BETTER THAN THAT GODDAMNED GAS MASK.

The Netflix film, nimbly directed by Mike Flanagan (Oculus, Hush, Ouija: Origin of Evil) is notable for a tight screenplay and a watch - it - through - your - fingers scene of Jessie figuring out a bloody way to get out of those handcuffs.

Watching The Exorcist, it's remarkable how not scary the traditional horror elements — the ouija board, the creepy attic — are early in the film.

Ouija — $ 6 million [3rd week; $ 43.4 million] The horror thriller is showing remarkable staying power for a horror film even if last week's champ fell to fourth place.

At the film's press day, appropriately held at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, actress Olivia Cooke spoke to Collider for this exclusive interview about why she wanted to be a part of this project, how she related to her character, just how much the story changed and evolved, re-shooting 50 % of the film, who she'd want to contact with a Ouija board, the most challenging aspect of the shoot, having so much fun with this cast, and why she doesn't think she'd return for a sequel.

It's not a surprise Ouija received a C CinemaScore; horror films often do.

Will the film buck the trend of disappointing game - inspired horror films (Blumhouse's own Ouija, for example) or be the latest one to fall prey to it?

The heroes within all of those films were a group of ghost hunting demonologists led by psychic Elise Rainier (Lin Shaye, «Ouija») and accompanied by tech specialists Specs (Whannell, «The Bye Bye Man») and Tucker (Angus Sampson, «Mad Max: Fury Road») who managed to bring the right spirits back and send the evil spirits away from the Lambert family on more than one occasion.

Last month director Mike Flanagan (Oculus, Ouija: Origin of Evil) revealed that his long - gestating Stephen King adaptation Gerald's Game is moving forward at Netflix, and now we have details on the film's cast.

Flanagan has been busy ever since, quickly turning out four more films — Hush, Before I Wake, Ouija: Origin of Evil, and now his latest with Gerald's Game.

But the noticeable absence of adults during the youths» crisis, the startling suicide, and occult themes associated with the Ouija board will still make many parents hesitate about sending their teens off to play with this film.

If anything, OUIJA: ORIGIN OF EVIL shows us to keep an open mind to both big - budget horror and to franchise films that smartly change directors.

And the previous OUIJA film is inarguably a giant, steaming pile of shit.

Franchise films «Jack Reacher: Never Go Back» and «Ouija: Origin of Evil» debut in second and third place respectively.

Ouija: Origin of Evil is a film from Universal Pictures, Platinum Dunes, Blumhouse Productions and Hasbro, it should be hitting theaters on October 21st.

While Ouija: Origin of Evil isn't going to win any year - end Awards, the sequel is a massive improvement over the first film and I thought it was really well done.

Low - budget horror fare like Blumhouse's Truth Or Dare, for example: Starring Pretty Little Liars» Lucy Hale and Teen Wolf's Tyler Posey, the film looks like an appealingly unserious blend of the Final Destination and Ouija movies with a dash of It Follows, as a gang of teenagers starts dying one by one in diabolically clever ways after playing «a seemingly harmless game of truth or dare.»

Ouija 2: Origin Of Evil (Mike Flanagan, 2016) This film is a great improvement on the first Ouija film which actually sent me to sleep!

Coming off of the positive critical buzz surrounding last year's Hush and Ouija: Origin Of Evil, Flanagan decided to re-team with Hush producer Netflix for a film adaptation of Gerald's Game.

Coming off of the modest success and positive critical buzz surrounding last year's Hush and Ouija: Origin Of Evil, Flanagan decided to cash in his «director to watch» chips and re-team with Netflix for a film adaptation of Gerald's Game (B +).

We now have the first ever shot from the film, directed by up - and - coming horror icon Mike Flanagan, who was behind Netflix's Hush, not to mention Ouija: Origin of Evil and Oculus, Before I Wake and Absentia.

I've only seen Hush and Ouija 2 thus far — it looks like Before I Wake has been delayed yet again — but I can say that when taken with his first two films, the moody Absentia and the excellent Oculus, Flanagan is already at the forefront of the new American horror revolution.

That film, Ouija: Origin Of Evil, is also...

The latest in the trend of board games movies, Ouija is something that one might call «high - concept» only in irony - because like Battleship before it, this film proves to be anything but.

Since its story was already related during a dull dumping of back story in the 2014 movie, Ouija: Origin of Evil may be relatively pointless, but co - writer / director Mike Flanagan's creepily effective film has at least one thing going for it in that regard: The first movie was so repetitive and forgettable that it's unlikely anyone really cares about or even remembers the story as it was told in the original.

BD is currently reporting that they now have confirmation that Mike Flanagan (Hush Oculus, Ouija 2) is in fact in negotiations to direct the next Halloween film, to be executive produced by John Carpenter, along with Malek Akkad and Blumhouse.

I should also say that genre veterans The Newton Brothers (Ouija: Origin of Evil, Proxy) once again provide a sensational score, their music during the otherwise ponderous and forgettable climax gifting the film with a sense of energy and tension it otherwise wouldn't have.

In advance of its worldwide release on Netflix, I spoke to Mike Flanagan and Kate Siegel about why the film's production was so secretive, the challenges of doing a film with little dialogue, and why we should all be excited for Ouija 2.

Since then, Flanagan has been hard at work, and he now has not one, not two, but three films slated to come out this year: his passion project Before I Wake, the sequel to the 2014 genre hit Ouija, and Hush, a slick, low - budget horror film he made in secret.

Juliet Snowden and Stiles White wrote the script for Ouija, and Universal will distribute the film worldwide.