Ouija House

1988, Katherine (Tara Reid, B movie queen - and that's not a compliment!) and two friends do a Ouija board in a supposedly haunted house that has a dark secret. Things go nastily wrong, Katherine survives (and is now played by Scream Queen Dee Wallace) in the present. Her daughter Laurie and friends go to the same house, do a Ouija and hey presto they call up an evil supernatural entity! The makers have obviously seen The Evil Dead - they find an old occult book, instead of playing cards they play the board, one of the girls turns into a very poor Deadite imitation and when they try to escape in their car they can't. Casting Reid and Wallace as the same character but with 30 years apart was ridiculous, they have no similarity whatsoever. Tara may get top billing but she's only in the movie for about two minutes. No great loss, her acting along with that of Mischa Barton and Casey Schroeder is as stiff as a wooden board. One gory scene showing an abdomen being slit open and some topless witches provide some brief but welcome respite from the tedium that makes up the bulk of the running time. I have seen a few movies based on Ouija boards but this was easily one of the worst. The name "Ouija" is the word "yes" in both French and German added together, "Nonnein" (no no) would be more appropriate for this rubbish. Before I forget to mention the house with its garden of cacti and agave looked pretty cool.