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!
I think we can all agree
the first Ouija movie wasn't good.
Not exact matches
Because if you're just using a
Ouija board, and the market starts going against you for some period of time, you're stuck - either you continue to follow something when you have no idea why it should work in the
first place, or now you've got to find something else that works even though you don't understand why.
Ouija, the teen horror from
first - time director Stiles White, may not have spoken to the critics much, but managed to manifest a healthy box - office haul.
Within a couple of years, she'd built a «scream queen» reputation that landed her her
first lead in a feature with 2014's «
Ouija.»
This year, items include a
Ouija board signed by the cast of Stranger Things, an ice skate signed by I, Tonya's Margot Robbie and Allison Janney, and the
first script of This Is Us, signed by the series» cast.
After Universal Studios reduced their big budget for
Ouija and brought in horror producer Jason Blum to finish the scaled - back project, light bulbs seem to be the
first item to get axed.
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.
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.
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.
As if we didn't already have last year's
Ouija to point this out, along comes the
first trailer for horror thriller Demonic to remind the world that nothing good happens when stupid people decide to try to dabble in dark forces.
The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam presents Recent
Ouija, the
first solo exhibition of British artist Ed Atkins in the Netherlands.