Ouija Craft is a 2020 American horror film about two teenage witches who bring their dead friend back from the grave. Unfortunately, their resurrected friend returns with an evil bent…
Written, co-produced, photographed, edited and directed by Aaron Mirtes (American Hunt; Curse of the Nun; Clowntergeist), the Exit 10 Films production stars Ivy Rhodes, Lacy Hartselle, Allison Shrum and Taylor Novak. Co-produced by Madi Johnson.
Despite test screening rejections, extensive reshoots and damning reviews, the 2014 smash-hit Ouija, a co-production between bandwagon jumpers Michael Bay and Jason Blum, successfully exploited the mainly female teen fascination with Hasbro’s game board and raked in $103 million at the box office alone, even before residual sales. A superior prequel, Ouija: Origin of Evil, helmed by horror ‘superhero’ Mike Flanagan followed and took a cool $81 million.
Thus, it was inevitable that a slew of cheapo movies with ‘Ouija’ in the title would follow, some of which were clearly just retitled from their original moniker to cash-in on the keyword. So, we have had The Ouija Exorcism (2015), Ouija Summoning aka Ouija: The Devil’s Game (2015), Ouija: Blood Ritual (2017), Ouija House (2017), Ouijageist (2018), Ouija Séance: The Final Game (2018), Ouija Mummy (2019) and Ouija Room (2019). The nadir and perhaps the absurdly logical obvious entry in this race to names is Brett Kelly’s tongue-in-cheek Ouija Shark (2020). And now we have another entry in the Ouija name stakes and one that also riffs on aforementioned Blumhouse’s The Craft: Legacy rehash (sorry, sequel).