“Do you know what it feels like to be strangled to death? First, you feel the pressure in your throat. Your eyes water, and you start to taste something very, very sour in your mouth. Then it’s like someone lights a match right in the middle of your chest, and that fire grows. It fills your lungs, and your throat, and all the way behind your eyes. And finally, that fire turns to ice; like pins and needles of ice are sticking into your fingers, your toes, your arms. You see stars, then darkness. And the last thing you feel… is cold.”
Doris Zander said this to her older sister’s boyfriend, Mikey.
Ouija: Origin of Evil is a movie taking place in Los Angles in 1776. It is a movie about a family who lives off of a seance scam business, where Alice Zander and her daughters Doris and Lina bring people into their home to convince them that they are talking to deceased loved ones.
Eventually, Alice decides to brings a Ouija board into her house in order to make the scam seem more convincing. Doris, her youngest daughter, finds the board and is convinced she is communicating with her father. She becomes so obsessed with the board and with her spirit friends that the family soon realizes she has been possessed by an evil spirit.
“I don’t understand why people would just bring the Ouija board into their houses as if it wouldn’t have an effect on their lives; you can literally talk to the dead. If that isn’t scary, I don’t know what is,” junior Lesly Melendez said.
The movie in general was very realistic. It caught my attention from the very beginning because of the great amount of detail and the time period the movie took place in. I would say that this movie was very good overall, regarding performance and how the movie was planned out.
When it comes to how scary it was on a scale from one to ten, I would rate it a seven because even though it was performed perfectly and smoothly, it just was not enough to make someone put their hands in front of their eyes.
“It was good, not super scary, but I screamed and jumped a few times,” junior Marlyne Rodriguez said.
Ouija: Origin of Evil is more than just a movie; it is an old urban legend regarding a spirit board that has been around for many years. People play it for many reasons: for some it’s just a hobby, but for others it’s a bit of hope in finally getting the closure they need with the people in their lives that have passed away.
I personally believe in the Ouija board legend just as much as I believe the urban Blair Witch legend, because even though they are two different legends, they both have a lot of background and evidence to support them.
When it comes to the two movies, Ouija: Origin of Evil was not what you would call a better film, but was more realistic because it seemed as if getting possessed by the Ouija board could happen to anybody. The movie displayed fluent transitions from scene to scene and the plot flowed smoothly, which was different from when I watched The Blair Witch Project, where I became annoyed in the beginning because of the very choppy transitions.
My opinions on both of the movie’s endings were different. I felt that Blair Witch had a much better ending that kept you at the edge of your seat. Ouija: Origin of Evil, on the other hand, ended poorly because it just got to the climax of the movie, then jumped to conclusion in a couple of scenes.
“It [Ouija: Origin of Evil] was pretty scary, and I hope they make another movie of it because the ending was a little off,” junior Cezar Auilar said.
Although the movie was not as strong as it could have been, I do think that it is very entertaining to watch for people who like to feel the thrill and suspense of what might happen next.
