My anticipation of this movie wasn't very high, mainly due to the original film that preceded it. The first Ouija felt cliche, despite it successfully managing to creep us out to a degree. Still, I was hoping for a true Halloween thrill worthy of the month of October. The trailer promised a vulnerability reminiscent of the older Exorcist films, where victims of the evil were helpless against the power of the presence lurking beneath the skin of a little girl. I knew this film would contain the terrifying control over another, the creepy promise of retribution after the use of a board game that clearly belongs on a 'Do Not Mess With' list with saying "Bloody Mary," reading from the Book of Shadows, and "What's that noise?" curiosity.

The film begins with a mother and her two daughters living in the home purchased by the late husband/father of the family. To make ends meet, the mother and daughters work as a team to convince customers that the mother is a psychic medium capable of getting them in touch with their passed over friends and family. This money is still not enough to cover the mortgage of their large home “with good bones,” so the mother decides at the encouragement of her daughter to add a fresh and interesting new prop to her routine: a ouija board. Now ouija boards only have three rules–(1) Do not play alone, (2) Do not play in a graveyard, and (3) Always say Goodbye. Pretty creepy right? Should be pretty easy to follow right? Apparently not. Right from the start, the mother plays alone as she practices making the board a part of her scam, using magnets added to the board to make it convincing. As she is asking questions to the board downstairs, her 9-year old is upstairs in the room with her teenage sister compelled to answer every question as if she is in the room with her mother. Not a good sign.

One foreclosure notice and a bit of late night solo ouija board fun later and the mother and eldest sister realize that the youngest of their group can actually speak to ghosts. But not just any ghosts, the ones that reside in their old home. Business begins to boom but their young family member grows more and more creepy until they realize that who they are dealing with is no longer the child that they love. Of course, by the time they are realizing this, there are dead bodies of friends littered throughout their haunted home and the young girl has perfected the age old hide and seek, crawl across walls, make you piss yourself techniques of jump scare horror. At this point, it is just a fight to survive and hopefully save the life of their possessed family member.