While the rote screenwriting doesn't kill the dark spirit of the world's creepiest board game, it doesn't channel it, either.

| Jul 19, 2016

Ouija is a low grade, low impact, Final Destination-style horror rip-off.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 4, 2014

The bumps and thumps are mechanical, the young stars insipid and the otherworldly entity the kids contact is called Doris.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 2, 2014

On the level of a fairground ride, the film delivers but when it comes to such matters as emotion, character development and suspense, it's a bust.

| Oct 31, 2014

Tis the season to watch nubile teens get chased and bumped off by a Rentaghost reject.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 31, 2014

Nothing says Halloween more than gathering in the dark to experience a carefully strategised branding opportunity.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 30, 2014

There's nary a chill or shock cut in the film that isn't grafted from some other relatively recent fright flick, and while the cast is uniformly game for the barely-there storyline, they're also as generically high school as you might imagine.

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Oct 30, 2014

If you expect literally nothing from the movies you pay to see, this will just - just! - about suffice.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 30, 2014

"Ouija" is hampered by the fact that watching a bunch of people sitting around a table is not inherently cinematic.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 30, 2014

"Ouija" has something wrong with it from the first five minutes.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 30, 2014

You'd have a scarier, more goose-pimply time fumbling your way through a game of Pictionary in the dark.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 30, 2014

What's left for the dead to say? Not much, it turns out.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 24, 2014

The most pressing issue with Ouija is that Stiles and Snowden cannot seem to write a single interesting line of dialogue.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 24, 2014

Ouija isn't going to redefine the horror genre, but sometimes, it's just nice to have a movie that knows what it's doing and does it well.

| Oct 24, 2014

In the current economy, Monopoly makes a more appropriate board game upon which to base a horror movie, but for what it is, "Ouija" is better than expected.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 24, 2014

Best left on the shelf.

| Original Score: C- | Oct 24, 2014

The film consistently settles for the cheapest shock devices and the most shopworn totems of our current neo-gothic moment in the genre.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Oct 24, 2014

A blah imitation of PG-13 haunted house movies like "Paranormal Activity" and "Insidious."

| Oct 24, 2014

It is harmless, frighty fun for teenage audiences, but adults will leave theatres with their bejeebers intact.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 24, 2014

Scares are more of the Saturday morning cartoon variety, clichd or telegraphed well in advance.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 24, 2014