Ouija: Origin of Evil Dvd

Ouija: Origin of Evil is a 2016 American supernatural horror film directed and edited by Mike Flanagan and written by Flanagan and Jeff Howard. The film is a prequel to the 2014 film Ouija and stars Elizabeth Reaser, Annalise Basso, and Henry Thomas. A widow and her family introduce a Ouija board into their phony seance business, thereby inviting a spirit that possesses the youngest daughter.

Ouija: Origin of Evil was released in the United States on October 21, 2016, by Universal Pictures. The film grossed over $81 million worldwide and received positive reviews, with many praising it as a significant improvement over its predecessor.

Plot

In 1967 Los Angeles, a young widow named Alice Zander works out of her suburban home as a spiritual medium, accompanied by her daughters, 15-year-old Paulina “Lina” and 9-year-old Doris. The family is still reeling over the recent death of Roger, Alice’s husband and the kids’ father. At Lina’s casual suggestion, Alice incorporates an Ouija board into her readings. While trying out the board, she unknowingly contacts a spirit named Marcus that begins to possess Doris.

Alice receives a notice that the bank intends to foreclose on their home. Doris contacts the board for help, believing she is communicating with her dead father. The spirit leads her to a secret compartment behind the basement wall containing a pouch of cash. When she gives the money to her mother, the family has a Ouija session, believing they can contact Roger. When the board answers a question only Roger would know the answer to, a thrilled Alice begins believing that they are in contact with her dead husband.

Soon, Doris becomes possessed by a shadowy spirit. Lina, who is becoming disturbed by the changes in her sister, finds papers written by Doris in fluent Polish, a language she does not know, and brings them to Father Tom Hogan, her School Principal, to translate. Troubled, Father Tom visits them for a Ouija session under the pretense of contacting his dead wife Gloria. Although the session appears to be successful, Father Tom later explains to Alice and Lina that Doris did not contact Gloria. Instead, for every question he asked, she read his thoughts and repeated the answers he was thinking in his mind. He reveals that the pages are entries written by a Polish immigrant named Marcus, who was taken captive during World War II by a sadistic doctor who conducted experiments on him and other captives inside the house’s basement. These spirits knew answers that only Roger would know because they have been watching the family since the day they moved in.

Meanwhile, Doris kills Lina’s new boyfriend Mikey when he comes to visit. When they find the body, Father Tom, Alice, and Lina burn the Ouija board in the furnace. Father Tom finds the secret room where the experiments were conducted, and is possessed by the spirits. He attacks Alice and Lina, but momentarily seizes clarity, only to be killed by Doris. Alice is captured, while Roger’s spirit carries an unconscious Lina to her bed. Recalling an earlier moment when her doll’s mouth was stitched by her father’s spirit “to shut out the voices”, Lina realizes she must sew Doris’ mouth shut to quiet the spirits’ voices and stop the evil. She fights off the embodied evil spirits and sews her mouth shut but kills Doris in the process.

The ghost Doris wakes up and Roger appears and Doris is happily reunited with her father. Lina explains to Alice that she had to sew her mouth in order to stop the voices. The spirits then possess Lina and stab Alice with a knife. The spirits unpossess Lina, who is shocked to see what she did. Alice tells Lina that it was not her fault but her own, for getting the board, and also tells Lina that she loves her. Alice then sees Roger and Doris happily together watching them and then dies, leaving Lina devastated over her mother’s death.

Lina is later on committed in a mental hospital for the suspected murder of her mother and sister. She tells her doctor that she knows she will never be alone again. As Lina is left in her room, she tears up the carpet and creates a Ouija board on the wooden floor with her blood. Lina uses the makeshift Ouija to summon Doris’ spirit, which succeeds in summoning Marcus in Doris’ form.

In a post-credits scene, 47 years later, a now elderly and still institutionalized Lina receives a visit from someone claiming to be her niece.

Cast

Elizabeth Reaser as Alice Zander
Annalise Basso as Paulina “Lina” Zander
Lin Shaye as Old Paulina Zander
Lulu Wilson as Doris Zander
Henry Thomas as Father Tom Hogan
Parker Mack as Michael “Mikey” Russell
Kate Siegel as Jenny Browning
Doug Jones as Ghoul Marcus
Halle Charlton as Ellie
Alexis G. Zall as Betty
Sam Anderson as Mr. Browning
Ele Keats as Ellie’s Mom
Nicholas Keenan as Walter
Michael Weaver as Roger Zander
Umran Mustafa as Keith Hemmingway