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After the death
of their grandmother, four half-sisters
get together to play around with an old ouija board
with which they used to play as kids. Unfortunately,
something goes wrong and the sisters end up releasing
an evil spirit that has no intentions of going back to
where it came from. How will they be able to stop this
nightmare before they're all dead?
You'd think that increasing the number of sisters in a
Ring-like horror flick would be a good idea, but this
tale of four sisters is anything but great. I'm not
even going to bother giving this a thorough review as
I'd just be repeating what I've said a million times
before. Yep, that's right, Ouija is ANOTHER long-haired
ghost girl with a bad hair day horror flick. But wait,
this time there's also an ouija board, an evil twin,
a surprise twist, and a ghost that can take over peoples
bodies involved, that's never been done before, right?
Errr, YEAH it has! It's been done to death and the
director of Ouija doesn't seem to mind ripping off any
movie that he's ever seen and slap their best scenes
in his movie - only with no tension and no scares that
manage to make you jump out of your seat.
I'm not going to go very deep into the story of Ouija
since there's not much to say. Four half-sisters with
very differing personalities decide to get together
to play around with an ouija board after the tragic
loss of their grandmother... yeah, very believable.
Naturally they end up releasing an evil spirit that
starts to pop up everywhere it can (don't they always?).
I've been complaining a lot about the quality of
Indonesian horror films lately but in terms of technical
quality, I'd have to say that the Philippines comes in
last of all the Asian countries. Ouija looks like it
was shot in the 80s, just like all Pinoy horror flicks
for whatever reason. It just didn't feel like I was
watching a brand new movie that made over a million
dollars at the local box-office.
The film was shot on the famous Camiguin island and
exploits the underwater cemetery to the fullest which
I hated. No respect for the dead here, that's for sure.
There are also several other things I hated about
this movie. First of all, there are so many characters
that you can't even remember their names until the
movie finally ends and there are only a few people
left alive. I don't know much about the characters
either since I had a hard time telling them all apart.
Then we have all the ridiculously cheap scares that
don't work on any level. The ghost pops up just when
you expect it to and with some loud noise conveniently
marking its entrance.
Wait, why am I still talking? Ouija is a poor horror
flick with as many clichés as you would expect from
a low-budget Asian horror production these days. The
movie looks like a glossy TV-soap from the 80s and
the amount of scares is so ridiculously high that you're
never even close to being scared.
Nothing here.
Who cares?
Clichéd and cheap-looking Pinoy horror flick that steals
heavily from some great Asian horror movies but fails
miserably at being one of them. Ouija is a failed
attempt at bringing long-haired ghost girls into the
Philippine movie industry... well... actually since it
was a box-office success, it probably succeeded in
doing so, but quality-wise, it failed in my eyes.
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