Something is wrong with Doris in the first trailer for Ouija: Origin of Evil. The film, a prequel to 2014’s Ouija, follows a family who discovers that their Ouija board scam has supernatural consequences.
With Herman’s Hermits’ “I’m Into Something Good” providing some surprisingly eery mood music, the trailer takes us to Los Angeles in 1965. Elizabeth Reaser from Twilight leads the cast and the film’s family, and Henry Thomas (Elliott from E.T.) shows up as the requisite priest character, but the real star is youngster Lulu Wilson. As the aforementioned Doris, Wilson speaks in tongues, writes in Polish, and crawls the walls after some thing possess her. It’s the creepy material we’ve grown accustomed to as horror movie fans, and the Origin of Evil team is certainly chock-full of horror experience.
Blumhouse Productions continues its model of low budget-high reward horror fare—a method that usually rakes in the big bucks, but is always hit or miss from a quality standpoint. Luckily for us, Mike Flanagan—the man behind recent super-low budget scarefests like Absentia and Hush—is behind the camera.
If he can craft convincing tension, and if Wilson nails her performance as the possessed child, then this follow-up will be a step ahead of its predecessor.
Ouija: Origin of Evil hits theaters on October 21, 2016.
