Ouija - don't play with the devil

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Movie
German title Ouija - don't play with the devil
Original title Ouija
Ouija logo.png
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2014
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
JMK 16
Rod
Director Stiles White
script Juliet Snowden
Stiles White
production Jason Blum
Michael Bay
Andrew Form
Bradley Fuller
music Anton Sanko
camera David Emmerichs
cut Ken Blackwell
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Ouija: Origin of Evil

Ouija - don't play with the devil (Original title: Ouija ) is an American horror film from 2014. Directed by Stiles White. The main roles are Olivia Cooke , Daren Kagasoff , Douglas Smith and Bianca A. Santos . The film was produced by Platinum Dunes and Blumhouse Productions in association with Hasbro . The film opened in the United States on October 24, 2014, while in Germany it opened on January 22, 2015. 2016 prequel was Ouija: The Origin of Evil ( Ouija: Origin of Evil ).

As early as 1986, a horror film was produced with Witchboard - Die Hexenfalle , in which a Ouija board was the focus of the plot.

action

The young girls Laine and Debbie experiment with a ouija board at home and try unsuccessfully to contact a ghost.

In the present, Debbie discovers an old Ouija board from the previous tenants in the attic. Shortly afterwards, strange things happen in the house and Debbie decides to record them in a video diary. When Debbie notices other strange things around her in the evening, she looks through the glass of the Ouija planchette, whereupon her eye turns white and she hangs herself with a string of lights in the hallway.

Her best friend Laine cannot accept Debbie's death. When she finds the Ouija board in Debbie's room, she wants to communicate with Debbie's ghost. Laine persuades her friends Trevor and Isabelle to play with her, because according to the rules you are not allowed to play alone. While she is about to go to Debbie's house, she discovers that her little sister Sarah wants to meet an older boy again and takes her to Debbie's house without further ado. Once there, the four discover that Pete, Debbie's friend, has also sneaked into the house.

After the five protagonists have started to play, they receive a message with "Hi Friend". Believing it to be Debbie, they say goodbye one last time and go home. Then the message "Hi Friend" appears to each of them over the course of the next day. They quickly notice that the supposed Debbie wants to communicate and so they go back to the house to use the Ouija board. This time, however, they quickly realize that the being they made contact with is not Debbie, but a little girl with her mouth sewn shut, who apparently wants to warn the group about the evil mother. In panic, they leave the house together and go home. When Isabelle got there, she wanted to take a bath and floss her teeth when suddenly her mouth was too sewn up. Then she is hit on the sink by an invisible force and dies. Over time, Laine and the others learn that a woman in Debbie's house killed her daughter, Doris, many years ago. They find Doris' sister Paulina, who has lived in a psychiatric clinic for years. Paulina informs her that her mother had often come into contact with ghosts and that she sewed up Doris' mouth. She further explains that Doris' body is still in the basement of the house and that the threads have to be removed from the body's mouth so that everything will come to an end. After finding the body in a hidden chancel in the basement and removing the threads, Doris Geist's mother is destroyed. The group thinks it's all over now.

But when Pete is killed by an invisible force, they realize that it's not over yet. It turns out that Paulina was addicted to ghosts and that her mother just wanted to warn Laine and the rest of the group. Desperate, Laine and Sarah ask their housekeeper for advice on how to stop the ghost. This explains that you have to burn the remains and the Ouija board. So Laine and Sarah go one last time to Debbie's house, where they also want to meet Trevor, but Doris' ghost has already killed him in the swimming pool. In the cellar, Sarah is dragged into the secret chancel and pressured by Doris. So that Sarah has time, Laine plays Ouija alone, because Doris has to devote herself to her. When Doris is about to take power over Laine and thus kill her, the ghost of Debbie comes to her aid. At the same moment, Sarah manages to get out of the room with the remains of Doris and toss them together with the Ouija board into the cellar stove. A few days later, Laine comes from the bathroom to her room in the evening and discovers the pointer on the ouija board. She looks through it and the film ends.

production

In May 2008, The Hollywood Reporter reported that the production company Platinum Dunes had secured the rights to Hasbro's witch board game Ouija from producers Michael Bay , Andrew Form and Bradley Fuller and were working on a film adaptation with Universal Pictures . In November 2009, Universal hired Adam Horowitz and Richard Jefferies to write the script for the film. Between October and December 2010, Pierre Morel , Sylvain White , Scott Stewart , McG and Breck Eisner were under discussion for the post of director, and Universal set the budget at between $ 80 million and $ 100 million. In January 2011, according to The Wrap, there were increasing signs that McG would be directing the film. Since McG apparently disagreed with the script, Evan Spiliotopoulos was hired to revise the script. Later on, Simon Kinberg also looked over the script. On August 23, 2011, Universal Pictures publicly announced that it had withdrawn from the project. The reason given was the too high budget.

In October 2011, Hasbro's managing director, Brian Goldner, announced to THR that he was still convinced of the idea and would like to make the film on a smaller budget. In March of the following year, Universal returned as the film's marketer and Blumhouse Productions was brought on board as a new production company. In July 2012, Stiles White was announced as director. The budget was set at $ 5 million.

Daren Kagasoff was able to secure the first leading role in early December 2013. Two days later, Olivia Cooke (leading actress) and Douglas Smith were signed. On December 11, 2013 Bianca A. Santos , Erin Moriarty , Ana Coto and Vivis Colombetti were signed . A short time later, Matthew Settle joined the cast.

Filming began in Los Angeles in mid-December 2013 .

After Battleship , Ouija is toy manufacturer Hasbro's second board game to be made into a film.

reception

Grossing results

Ouija - Play Not With The Devil was released in 2,858 theaters in the United States. The opening weekend brought sales of 19.88 million US dollars and thus took first place in the box office. Worldwide, the film grossed 42.66 million US dollars by November 3, 2014 and can already be considered a success, as the production costs were 5 million US dollars.

Reviews

The film received mostly negative reviews.

Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter says that "Universal has hopelessly wasted the good idea of ​​making a nice horror film out of the board game Ouija" and that "the idea of ​​going to prison at Monopoly" is far more scary.

Entertainment Weekly's Kyle Anderson notes that there are "no really bloody scenes, no bare skin, and no shock effects in this would-be horror." For him, the “atmosphere or plot” was also a little too thin.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Certificate of release for Ouija - Don't play with the devil . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2015 (PDF; test number: 148 802 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Ouija - Don't play with the devil . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Borys Kit: Michael Bay conjures 'Ouija' movie . In: TheHollywoodReporter.com . May 28, 2008. Retrieved November 3, 2014.
  4. ↑ David Chen: Tron Legacy Writers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz To Write Ouija Board Film . In: SlashFilm.com . November 1, 2009. Retrieved November 3, 2014.
  5. ↑ Mike Fleming Jr: 'Ouija' Conjures Up Directing Candidates . In: Deadline.com . October 27, 2010. Retrieved November 3, 2014.
  6. ↑ Bory's Kit: EXCLUSIVE: McG, Breck Eisner Vying to Direct Universal's 'Ouija' . In: TheHollywoodReporter.com . December 18, 2010. Retrieved November 3, 2014.
  7. ↑ Jeff Sneider: McG in Talks to Direct 'Ouija' for Universal & Hasbro . In: TheWrap.com . January 4, 2011. Retrieved November 3, 2014.
  8. ↑ Bory's Kit: Evan Spiliotopoulos to Pen Universal's 'Ouija' . In: TheHollywoodReporter.com . April 19, 2011. Retrieved November 3, 2014.
  9. ↑ Borys Kit: Universal Scraps 'Ouija' Movie as Studios Eye Budgets Closely . In: TheHollywoodReporter.com . August 24, 2011. Retrieved November 3, 2014.
  10. ^ Mr Disgusting: Hasbro CEO Says 'Ouija' Board Moves to "Yes" . In: SlashFilm.com . October 17, 2011. Retrieved November 3, 2014.
  11. ↑ Borys Kit: Hasbro's 'Ouija' Movie Returns to Universal, Set for 2013 Release . In: TheHollywoodReporter.com . March 5, 2012. Retrieved November 3, 2014.
  12. ^ The Deadline Team: Daren Kagasoff Joins 'Ouija'; Ian Harding Cast In 'Dynamite: A Cautionary Tale'; Freddie Stroma Signs For 'The Inbetweeners Movie 2 ′ . In: Deadline.com . December 4, 2013. Retrieved November 3, 2014.
  13. ↑ Bory's Kit: 'Bates Motel' Actress to Star in Universal's 'Ouija' . In: TheHollywoodReporter.com . December 6, 2013. Retrieved November 3, 2014.
  14. ↑ a b Rebecca Ford: Universal's 'Ouija' Adds 'The Fosters,' 'Red Widow' Actresses (Exclusive) . In: TheHollywoodReporter.com . December 11, 2013. Retrieved November 3, 2014.
  15. ^ The Deadline Team: Eric Bogosian Narrates 'Listen Up Philip'; Matthew Settle joins 'Ouija' cast . In: Deadline.com . December 13, 2013. Retrieved November 3, 2014.
  16. ^ Box Office Mojo: "Ouija" . In: BoxOfficeMojo.com . Retrieved November 3, 2014.
  17. ^ Frank Scheck: 'Ouija': Film Review . In: TheHollywoodReporter.com . October 23, 2014. Retrieved November 3, 2014.
  18. ↑ Kyle Anderson: 'Ouija (2014) Review . In: EntertainmentWeekly.com . October 31, 2014. Retrieved November 3, 2014.