10 Horror Movie Re-Castings That Proved Successful

First things first, Stiles White's Ouija is not a good film. Taking the much-feared folklore concept of the Ouija board allowing spirits to move between planes of existence and not doing very much with it, the film lacked the plot, depth or true terror to make such an outing land.

Central to the first film's plot is the horrific spirit of Mother / Alice Zander (Claudia Katz Minnick), who sewed her daughter's mouth shut, and who turns out not to be the villain but a kind of evil-looking benevolent presence determined to keep the cursed spirit of her daughter at bay.

In horror aficionado Mike Flanagan's 2016 prequel, Origins of Evil, the director decided to go back to the events that cursed the house and its family to begin with. While he could have enlisted Minnick to play Alice, he instead called upon regular collaborator Elizabeth Reaser, who brought a tender, multifaceted performance to a role that could otherwise have been quite two-dimensional. Whether Minnick would have done as well is anyone's guess, but we can't fault Reaser one bit.