Despite a barrage of hostile reviews (USA Today called it a deadly dull and overly familiar movie about summoning ghosts that draws upon nearly every horror movie cliché), Ouija made $102 million on a $5 million budget, so a sequel is in production, due for release in October 2016. Directed by Oculus helmer Mike Flanagan from a script he wrote with Jeff Howard, Ouija 2 stars Lin Shaye and Elizabeth Reaser, which should help bring in the audience for the Insidious and Twilight franchises. Plot details are sketchy, but if previous cheap horror sequels like Hostel II are anything to go by, itll be the same story all over again with a different cast. More teenagers you couldnt care less about, more false scares, more people walking down dark corridors saying, Hello? Someone there?
Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'
