Ouija is Horor movie, Ouija as a spirit board or talking
board is a flat board marked with the letters of the alphabet, the numbers
0–9, the words "yes", "no", "hello"
(occasionally), and "goodbye", along with various symbols and
graphics.
In the opening scene, two young girls, named Laine and
Debbie, are sitting in Laine's room playing with a Ouija board. Debbie tells
Laine how to play and how to use the planchette to see any spirits. They say
the mantra, "As friends we gathered, hearts are true; spirits near, we
call to you." Laine looks through the planchette to spot a spirit, and is
frightened when she sees someone, only it's her younger sister Sarah. She yells
at Sarah to leave.
In the present day, the adult Debbie (Shelley Hennig) is playing with the Ouija
board by herself. She appears distressed, and she tosses the board and
planchette into the furnace. She then speaks on the phone with the adult Laine
(Olivia Cooke). Laine goes over to her house, and Debbie says she is not up to
hanging out with her and their friends that night. Debbie mentions playing the
Ouija board and feeling odd, though Laine dismisses this as her being a spaz.
After Laine leaves, Debbie goes back upstairs and sees the Ouija board and
planchette on her bed. She looks through the planchette, and her eyes turn
white. Debbie then grabs some Christmas lights and hangs herself.
The next morning, Laine is with her boyfriend Trevor (Daren Kagasoff) at a
diner. They are met by their waitress friend Isabelle (Bianca A. Santos). Laine
gets a text from her dad saying to go home immediately. When she gets there,
Laine finds her dad, her grandmother, and Sarah (Ana Coto) gathered to inform
her of what happened to Debbie.
All of Debbie's loved ones gather for the wake. Laine is too shaken to be
there, but she holds it together. Debbie's boyfriend Pete (Douglas Smith)
arrives with some flowers. Laine goes into Debbie's room where Debbie's mother
finds her. Laine breaks down and hugs her. She asks Laine to housesit for them
while they are gone. Laine agrees.
Laine discovers the Ouija board that Debbie was playing with. Since she cannot
shake the feeling that Debbie's presence is still in the house, she gathers
Sarah, Trevor, Pete, and Isabelle to Debbie's house to play with the board.
They get together and say the mantra as they put their hands together on the
planchette. It starts to move, which everyone thinks is Sarah moving it. The
spirit implies that it is Debbie and it spells out "Hi Friend" on the
board. The friends are freaked out and stop playing.
Each friend is followed by the spirit. Trevor encounters it on a bike ride,
leading him under a bridge where he sees "Hi Friend" written on the
wall in chalk. Isabelle sees it spelled out in her car window, along with a
hand slamming against it. Pete sees it carved in his desk.
Thinking that Debbie is trying to communicate with them, the friends get
together to play the board again. They learn that the spirit is not Debbie, but
someone that identifies as DZ. Laine looks through the planchette and sees a
little girl with stitches on her mouth. The spirit then spells out on the
board, "Run. She's coming." Laine asks who is coming, and the spirit
spells "Mother." Laine looks through the planchette and sees the girl
point to an older female spirit screaming and running in her direction.
In her home, Isabelle is flossing her teeth and drawing herself a bath. She
then has stitches form on her mouth, and she is levitated in the air. The
spirit drops her, leaving her to slam her head against the sink, killing her.
Trevor is angry at Laine because she made them play the game, which led to
Isabelle's death. Laine investigates Debbie's house and finds some pictures of
two little girls and their mother. Trevor looks up on the internet an article
on a missing girl from the same address as Debbie's home, as well as the girl's
sister being taken into custody after murdering her mother.
Laine goes to a mental asylum to meet Paulina Zander (Lin Shaye), the sister of
Doris, the girl with the stitches on her mouth. She tells Laine that their
mother believed she heard voices and saw spirits that were trying to
communicate through Doris, so she sewed her mouth shut. Paulina asks Laine to
find Doris's body in the house and to cut the stitches open.
Laine finds Doris's corpse in Debbie's home, with her mouth still sewed shut.
She cuts the stitches open, bringing Doris's spirit out, along with Mother.
Doris lets out a blood-curdling scream and vanquishes Mother's spirit.
Just when it seems that everything is over...IT'S NOT. Pete gets killed in his
home by Doris's spirit. Laine returns to the asylum to tell Paulina that she
did what she told her. Paulina chuckles, and Laine realizes that Mother was not
evil, but it was Doris and Paulina that were communicating with spirits, and
that their mother was trying to stop them.
Laine's grandmother tells Laine and Sarah that the only way to defeat the
spirit is the destroy not only the Ouija board, but Doris's corpse.
The girls and Trevor go to Debbie's house to finish this. Trevor gets pulled
into the pool and is killed by Doris. Sarah finds Doris's corpse and is
attacked by her spirit. Laine gets out the Ouija board and beckons Doris to
play with her. Doris grabs Laine's arm and almost kills her, until Debbie's spirit
shows up to intervene. Sarah brings Doris's corpse and throws it into the
furnace. Laine throws the Ouija board and planchette, and Doris's spirit is
destroyed.
Laine and Sarah return home, relieved that everything is over. Laine flosses
her teeth and gets ready for bed, and then finds the planchette on her desk.
She picks it up and looks through it one more time.
