The Ouija Experiment

A typically underwhelming low-budget, found-footage horror effort, The Ouija Experiment follows several friends as they decide to record their sessions with a ouija board and are subsequently/predictably pursued by sinister figures. It’s perhaps not surprising to note that The Ouija Experiment is, for the most part, entirely lacking in creepy elements, with the majority of the film’s overlong running time devoted to the characters’ drawn-out and hopelessly uninvolving exploits – which, to be fair, is undoubtedly a consequence of the movie’s shockingly low budget ($1200, if the Internet Movie Database is to be believed). And while writer/director Israel Luna eventually does offer up a handful of decent jolts, The Ouija Experiment‘s absence of bona fide scares does ensure that one’s interest wanes considerably as time progresses. Luna’s attempts at fleshing things out with mounds and mounds of tedious backstory only exacerbates the movie’s less-than-engrossing vibe, and it certainly doesn’t help, either, that the cast is comprised almost completely of incompetent amateurs. The end result is a fairly terrible endeavor that could’ve been worse, admittedly, but there’s just got to be a better way to spend 92 minutes.

*1/2 out of ****