Ouija Experiment 2: The Ouija Resurrection (2015)

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Movie Name/Year: Ouija Experiment 2: The Ouija Resurrection (2015)

Tagline: Hell will be unleashed.

Genre: Horror

Length: 84 minutes

Rating: NR

Production Companies: La Luna Entertainment

Producer: Stuart Alson, Nicole Holland, Felix McNulty, Hareendra Samarasekera, Tom Zembrod

Director: Israel Luna

Writer: Israel Luna

Actors: Justin Armstrong, Gerald Crum, Sally Greenland, Ty Larson, Swisyzinna, Shanon Snedden, Jessica Willis, Eric Window, Eric Zettina, Tom Zembrod, Israel Luna, Chaselyn Wade, Nicole Holt

Stunts: Tom Zembrod

Blurb from Netflix: Audience members become hostages trapped in a theater when a rapacious spirit is summoned through a Ouija board and set on the loose.

Selina’s Point of View:

I normally love watching movies. Hell, it’s why I first got it in my head to start this blog in the first place. Even if the film I’m watching isn’t particularly good, I find some amusement in the awfulness.

I didn’t here. I found Ouija Experiment 2: The Ouija Resurrection to be completely pointless – much like the redundancy of the original title. Of course, IMDb has the newer title on file – The Ouija Experiment 2: Theatre of Death – which is much better. If only they’d made similar changes to the film.

The only good thing I can say about it, is that it works as a stand-alone film. Although it’s a sequel, they added a kind of ‘previously on’ that fit into the story relatively well. Unfortunately, it was a terrible story.

That’s all the good I’ve got. The rest of the news is very bad.

 

The acting was absolutely ridiculous. Not in a funny way, either. It was just incredibly painful to watch. The acting was even paired with an awful script. I rolled my eyes so hard at one point that I actively gave myself a headache.

I get what the film makers were trying to do here. It was supposed to be a meta jokingly-egotistical take on the first film, but that’s not how it came off. It felt like a fully narcissistic step in the wrong direction.

To make it worse, there were times I could swear the entire thing had been recorded on an old phone. There was horrific video and sound quality.

There’s not much else I can say. It was just… bad.

Cat’s Point of View:

In my review of The Ouija Experiment (2011), which we covered back in July of 2016, I expressed my hope that we wouldn’t land on its sequel. Well, here we are – with the sequel.

My primary gripes about the first movie seem to be about shaky cam, a soap opera atmosphere, and boredom resulting from my lack of being able to engage with the movie. I’m happy to report that history didn’t entirely repeat itself.

There were a few camera sequences that felt a bit spastic, but I was immensely relieved that they stepped away from the found-footage theme for this one. The soapy melodrama was also ditched, but I’m not sure if what it was replaced with was much better. There was some seriously stilted dialogue going on here. Some of it was painfully awkward beyond the cringe that seemed to be purposeful in the scene.

I wasn’t entirely bored with this one, and they did catch me with a few jump scares, but I still had trouble engaging with the characters. I think a chunk of that was due to the writing, or perhaps production choices. Some of the tale felt a bit disjointed. The background music choices did help add a little tension to the atmosphere, but all told it just wasn’t that scary.

For example, what was up with the accent Sally Greenland (Misfire, Terminal Legacy, Dawn Patrol) was using? 

I’m not very familiar with her as an actress, and IMDb is rather lacking on bio info, so I’m not sure if that’s her real accent and the writing mislabeled it as British or if she was trying for British and it just sounded like Aussie.

I did like the twist that brought Swisyzinna (Wops the Movie, Deceptions of Love, Lady Luck), Justin Armstrong (Art of Survival, Allegiance of Powers, Ghost Note), and Eric Window (In the Land of Fireworks, Sideline Confessions, Carter High) back as themselves on a promo tour for their small budget film.

It felt like an interesting fourth-wall break for the original movie after-the-fact.                

                                                                                                                   

For a film that cost less than $1,000.00 to make, I’d say they did a decent job.  A lot of that success can likely be attributed to multi-faceted crew members such as Gerald Crum (Velvet Vengeance, Lake Fear, Blood Vow) who worked on set decorations, the sound department, and lighting – in addition to acting in the role of Danny.

I’m not entirely happy about this movie. It’s a toss-up as to whether I even liked it any better than the first. Needless to say, a snowball in Hades has a better chance than this film of getting a recommendation from me.

Languages

Speech Available: English, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish

Subtitles Available: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, Spanish

Rotten Tomatoes Critic Score – None

Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score – 4%

Metascore - None

Metacritic User Score – None

IMDB Score – 1.9/10

Trust the Dice: Selina’s Rating – 1/5

Trust the Dice: Cat’s Rating – 1.5/5

Trust-the-Dice’s Parental Advisory Rating: PG-13

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