Ouijageist (2018)

Ouijageist: Directed by John R. Walker. With Lois Wilkinson, Lesley Scoble, India Raqia-Walker, Roger Shepherd. Young single mum, India moves into her new flat and adds to the pressures of finding employment and meeting the rent when she and her friend begin dabbling with a Ouija board they found at the property. Evil powers are unleashed and mysterious deaths begin to occur.

“Moving into a new house, a womanu0026#39;s discovery of a strange ouija board buried in her backyard and begins playing with it with a friend, but when a series of strange accidents and incidents befall her and her friends she learns the board game has released a deadly spirit into her life and must find a way to stop it.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis was a pretty solid and enjoyable effort. Among the filmsu0026#39; better efforts is the fact that this one tends to introduce the malicious figure in their lives in a way that legitimately doesnu0026#39;t feel like anything out of the ordinary is going on. The sense that these are true accidents and mishaps, from the supernatural bump on the best friend to push her down the stairs which looks for all the world like a genuine fall down, the incident target her infant son with the scalding hot water and the scene of the dog running away scared all provide a reasonable grounding for the supernatural antics to later spread from. Those come into play at the filmu0026#39;s best when the supernatural attacks become less realistic and more likely something physically intervening. The encounter at the coffee shop where the one individual drinks an entire cup of scalding hot coffee in one gulp before immediately spewing the entire thing back on her before shouting demonically and contorting their body in unnatural ways in front of the patrons is the first clue somethingu0026#39;s wrong, while the incidents with the repairman and the priest cement the idea that something is wrong. With the finale finally bringing some excitement involving possessed bodies and the full-force of the supernatural entities chasing her, this is fun and frantic enough to overcome some of the filmsu0026#39; flaws. This one does have a few minor flaws. Among the biggest problems is the weird structuring of discovering the board in the backyard almost immediately but then forgetting about it to focus on outside activities. From the struggle to move in and get acclimated to the move, looking for work at the pet shop and dealing with the neighborhood kids for their actions, this one tends to take up tons of focus in the film on outside areas that are outside of the supernatural focus. With only the one sequence showing the game being played to ignite that possibility in the viewers it is entirely possible to forget thatu0026#39;s the case with this one. The last flaw here is the general sluggish quality prominent here which takes a while for anything to happen. The tempo of everything is played out in the usual relaxed and laid-back manner of most British genre efforts where it takes everything in the same key without much variance at all so that incidents that shouldu0026#39;ve resulted in more of a reaction is missed completely. As well, thereu0026#39;s a lack of explanations for anything here since it takes so long for anything to happen, resulting in the finale feeling like all these strange incidents are occurring suddenly with no build-up due to the weird pacing. These are what drag the film down somewhat.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eRated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence, Language, children-in-jeopardy and animal violence.”