Last year, when Universal Studios and Hasbro announced a six-year deal to produce movies based on the toy company’s board games, it seemed to be just the latest bit of confirmation, as if any was needed, that Hollywood had completely run out of original ideas. Were audiences really clamoring for big-screen versions of Candy Land and Monopoly? What would be next: a Pictionary movie? A Hungry Hungry Hippos feature? Now, though, comes news that two writers from Lost, Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, who also wrote the screenplay for the upcoming Tron Legacy, have signed on to write a Ouija board movie—and suddenly I’m wondering if I need to actually take this thing seriously. The studio is billing the project as “a supernatural action-adventure movie” and hints that the plot may involve some of those supposed Ouija board rules that gave you goose bumps back in elementary school: never use it alone, never use it in a graveyard, always say goodbye at the end of a Ouija session. I’m still skeptical—a full-on horror movie would seem like a more suitable way to go than some Jumanji-esque action-adventure flick. But I have to admit, with credible talent on board (so to speak), the idea sounds cool enough that my fingers may be slowly pushing the Ouija thingy toward “Yes” on this one.
What say you, oh spirits of the PopWatch realm: does the idea of a Ouija board movie fill you with excitement or dread? While we’re at it, have you ever had an experience with a Ouija board that genuinely freaked you out?
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I love Kitsis & Horowitz’s LOST episodes. They’re hilarious and packed with little details you notice the second or third time around (like Montand’s violin in “This Place is Death.) Sign me up!
Sounds good for a scary type movie. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a horror movie with one of the dominant factors as a Ouija board so I’m kind of interested in this. It sounds sort of cool and different.
i think that would be interesting.
I won’t go near a Ouija board. Too many freaky things have happened.
i have a quija board, but it never works. maybe i need another person there or maybe i’m doing something wrong, not sure. but yea a quija board movie might be cool, like if weird things happened every time you used the quija board and maybe someone dies or something. i’d see a quija board movie, lol.
you need at least 2 people to do it. i have one and it works with two, not myself alone.
You can do it alone, but everyone will warn you not to. I did once (someone else in teh room) and the light started flickering, and I was done. lmao
They have already had a quija board horror movie – its called Witchboard.
Thank you, I knew this sounded like it’d been done before but couldn’t think of the title.
YES THANK YOU. this movie scared the bejesus out of me as a child and it starred good ol’ tawny kitaen. seriously the only way they could improve on this masterpiece is by having phoebe price play the lead role
If they do a Hungry Hungry Hippos movie then the writers of Robot Chicken should sue. The fact that they’re making a movie based on the Viewmaster toy means Hollywood has officially hit rock bottom when it comes to movie ideas.
But I think they could make a decent Monopoly movie since the game is about real estate. They could actually do something topical and relate it to the recent housing bust. They probably won’t though…
Shouldn’t the Ouija board write the movie itself?
Touche.
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