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First off, I love Henrique Couto. I first saw him on Popcorn Fodder and he just seems like such a nice guy. He is very knowledgeable when it comes to movies and pretty entertaining. That being said, I saw very little of that in this movie. It was pretty slow, the way Autism was depicted was just silly, and I think 75% of the budget was candles. It had a story with a beginning, middle, and end, so there's that? I appreciate the work that went into this and I'm sure a lot of the movie's problems could have been fixed with a larger budget, but for me this one was on par 'Sledgehammer' without the so bad it's good factor. I would like to see what Henrique could do with a decent budget and I admire him for doing what he loves.

This was beyond horrible. Bad acting & I fell asleep halfway through. I don't care about the characters enough to watch til the end

This film was terrible. Acting was awful. This is the worst depiction of an individual with autism that I've ever seen (and that includes "the good doctor"). She may be mentally challenged but not autistic. I'm 8 minutes in and can't take any more

I got 5 minutes into it turned it off. I agree with everyone except the person who gave it a 7. What did they watch cause this movie sucks.

Literally wanted to shut it off 15 minutes in. Terrible acting by the main character, annoying sound effects and music. Felt like the movie was made by high school students who were on a $20 budget.

I saw this movie pop up up on demand while searching for some new horror to watch.

It had a rating of 4.7 at the time, so while I knew it wasn't gonna be Shakespeare, I thought it might be passable to watch.

Those "1" ratings for this movie are 100% accurate! Where that "7" rating came from is beyond me. I always give allowances to low budget indie movies, but this was just awful.

And the ending?

Avoid this room at all costs.

As the title states, don't waste your time. It's not worth listing the flaws because it would be easier and quicker to list the positives...which there are none. Any negative thing you've ever read in a review applies to this movie. Nuff' said.

Trapped inside her house, an agoraphobic young woman and her brother try to follow through on concentration exercises with a set of games including an ouija board, and after playing with it she comes to find several imaginary friends that start playing a deadly game with her that put them in jeopardy.

Overall, this was a pretty solid indie effort. The majority of the fun with this one comes from the endearing setup at play that focuses on the main characters' plight and struggle. With her lovable goofball energy that manages to mix child-like innocence, a willingness to help herself but simply frustrated at the situation and stuck at home, it's incredibly sympathetic to get to know her during this stage where the introduction to the lifestyle she has being stuck with board games and terrible home-cooked meals. The fact that the ouija board comes into play through random happenstance and the slowly-dissolving mental state she goes under after playing it goes to spark a change in behavior towards the second half that's fun to watch. That change in behavior after contacting the spirits through the ouija board manages to spring forth the real fun of this one as the varying personalities of the spirits begin to influence her. from the little girl that helps fuel her playful innocent side, the doo-wop father that helps her focus through cooking and the rebellious teenager that tends to bring about her take-charge attitude with how she starts taking out those that are trying to prevent her from interacting with the ghosts. This is all expected and quite obvious with how it plays out but that doesn't stop the fun of how her deteriorating mental state gets dropped from the rational to psychotic as she tries to fight their influence once the dark game they want to play with her starts to take shape. These here are what hold this one up for the most part. This one does have a few minor problems. The fact that this one spends so much time going through the motions of her mental state that this one can feel like it's a bit slow-going at the beginning. Seeing the same thing over-and-over in regards to her flighty and scatterbrained child-like mindset through jumping to different interests or interests around the house hammers home the point rather quickly, and while this is all perfectly in tune with getting to know her and sympathize with there's the issue of it taking a little too long to get going into the horror-based elements with these scenes taking up nearly two-thirds of the running time before it starts to become more genre-related. The other minor flaw here is the rather underwhelming finale that seems to be quite confusing. The fact that they seem to have everything in place only to have the turn-around occurs with a sudden change of heart that comes out of nowhere and doesn't have any real build-up offered as for why she changes. Rather than slowly realized that they've been fooling her which would've been a more rational response, she seemingly and without any motivation from previous events decides to turn it into a more uplifting finale with the events that occur here which feels quite sudden and unnatural. As well as the telltale signs of the low-budget here that some might have an issue with but isn't detrimental all that much anyway, these here are what hold this one back overall.

Rated Unrated/R: Language and Violence.

Hugo's films are great for a few reasons. Real locations and props. Great Indy actors. And the armature scripts remind me a lot of Dohler films. Plus the beautiful women , they are so confident with the nudity when it happens. I hope they all continue to make films.

This particular film means something to us Baltimore natives as it's the birthplace of Ouija. Some of the scenes will give you a legit scare or at the very least a jump. If you are new to his films try the Babysitter Massacre. Same cast as this film but much much bloodier. All in all it's a fun Friday night flick. Only an hour so you are not investing a whole night.