Ouija: Origin of Evil Cinema Release Date

This smart and stylish horror film blends spot-on production design and cinematography with scares that don’t rely on cheap shocks.

The director, Mike Flanagan, who with Jeff Howard also wrote the script, demonstrates rare patience for horror fare as he builds toward the macabre.

Ouija: Origin Of Evil is much better than it needs to be.

A Ouija board serves as a portal to the spirit world in this prequel to the 2014 horror hit.

A throwback studio logo not only evokes a sense of nostalgia, it also make a statement.

Have there ever been entertainment-media product tie-ins like the Ouija movies?

Set half a century before hit horror film 'Ouija,' this late-’60s prequel offers a smarter, scarier spin on Hasbro's classic board game.

It’s difficult to make a board game scary.

For a horror sequel built around a foundation of genre trends, Ouija: Origin of Evil contains far more goofy-spooky fun than one might expect.

'Ouija: Origin of Evil': Fun and games with a creepy little girl and her planchette.

Ouija: Origin of Evil complements its goose-pimply frights with an unabashedly naked emotional gravitas.

Ouija: Origin Of Evil would have been better than Ouija with even a quarter of the screams evoked, which makes the tremendous jump in quality quite refreshing despite derivative...

Ouija: Origin shouldn’t work, but it does, building a genuinely creepy and altogether October-friendly feel, up until a third-act, demon infested breakdown, when all hell breaks...

Mike Flanagan’s film is essentially a branding exercise and its setup formulaic, but the director injects plenty of fun into this story of supernatural possession.

Ouija: Origin of Evil is, somewhat unexpectedly, not that bad.