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THE OUIJA EXORCISM ![]() ![]() Nick Slatkin creates an average show. He is operating on a B-budget but makes a solidly professional-looking film. One aspect that you should commend him for is in allowing the cast to etch some reasonable characters. In particular, I came out quite impressed with Branden Smith, who plays the least likeable character on screen but gives the best performance. The main problem comes when Slatkin leaves the character-based scenes behind and develops the horror element out during the latter half. The tension and jumps come entirely by the numbers. The reality is that The Ouija Exorcism is just not that scary possessed people with glowing eyes and never amounts to anything more than routine jumps.
One oddity is that the film sets itself amidst Judaic mythology the hero is Jewish and has a grandfather who is a rabbi (although he is dispensed with early into the film when you expect him to stand around as a savant character with insight into what is going on). Quite contradictorily, seemingly not knowing the incongruity between the two religions, the film then also throws in a scene where the rabbi goes to consult a Catholic priest about the spirit board.
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