Ouija Boards have been in cinema since the early days of cinema. Ouija boards are often depicted in films as conduits for evil spirits, but the real story of Ouija is much less terrifying.
Ouija boards most often play a central role in horror subgenres, including haunted house and obsession, but they can appear in almost any type of film.
Especially for you, we have compiled a list of the best films about spiritualism and séances.
Weegee's Retreat (2019)
Sylvia (Joni Durian) lives a lonely life. She suffers from agoraphobia (among a host of self-destructive issues) that keeps her locked up inside all the time, and she is under the care of her loving but burned-out older brother.
One day she decides use Ouija boardto befriend the spirits she comes into contact with, but her new friends quickly begin to fuel Sylvia's more destructive tendencies.
Ouija: Curse of Veronica (2017)
Inspired by the true story of Estefania Gutiérrez Lázaro, an 18-year-old girl whose death in 1991 was allegedly attributed to the use of a Ouija board.
This is a Spanish film that tells the story of a Catholic high school girl who becomes the target of an obsession after becoming fascinated with the occult. Veronica, wonderfully played by Sandra Escacena in her debut film, tries to contact her late father via a ouija board with the help of two of her friends.
Weegee. Curse of the Devil Board (2016)
The story follows Alice (Elizabeth Reaser), a fake medium who deceives people by staging séances with the help of her daughters Doris (Lulu Wilson) and Lina (Annalise Basso).
When Alice adds a ouija board to her charade, she unwittingly comes into contact with a force that young Doris believes to be her late father. Doris becomes the target of an obsession with what has gone through Ouija board, and the film plays out as a very scary possession film and one of the best films in which the Ouija board plays a significant role.
Conjuring 2 (2016)
In the film we see homemade ouija board Janet (eldest daughter), the likely channel through which all the evil that is in the house penetrated inside.
spell 2 is a tense and captivating installment in the popular franchise that is notable for introducing viewers to two new and interesting ghosts: the Crooked Man and the Nun.
Ouija: Devil's Board (2014)
The film opens with a relationship between Lane (Olivia Cooke) and Debbie (Shelley Hennig), two childhood friends with an interest in Ouija.
After Debbie, now a teenager, commits suicide, Lane and her friends try to contact Debbie via a séance, but instead, someone or something else appears to have made contact.
Pact (2012)
"Pact" is a tense and clever psychological thriller set in a haunted house.
In the film, Caity Lotz plays Annie, a woman who returns to her family home after her mother's death. Annie doesn't want to leave because memories of her mother's childhood abuse still linger, but when Annie's sister goes missing, she has no choice but to return home to find answers.
Annie's search leads her to mysteries involving ghostly occurrences, a serial killer, and dark secrets kept in her old home. When Annie's investigation seems to hit a dead end, she turns to a makeshift Ouija board to try and find some answers.
Paranormal Activity (2007)
The film is a combination of hand-held footage and fixed cameras in a house inhabited by a woman who believes she is being personally harassed and her husband who thinks the whole thing is a fun game.
The husband thinks another fun game might be to use the ouija board, but after an argument with his wife, the board was left untouched in the living room. Then, in one of the film's most eerie moments, the board seemingly comes to life on its own while no one is around.
Long Dead: Genie's Revenge (2002)
This well-made British horror film follows a group of college students trying to end a series of deaths after they unleash an evil genie by fiddling with a makeshift Ouija board.
Prison of the Dead (2002)
The story revolves around four people who have gathered for the funeral of their friend. As the twisted plot progresses, the friends learn more and more about the history of the funeral home and the prison.
Halfway through the movie, the friends use a ouija board that brings three prison executioners, Sickle, Mace, and Scythe, back from the dead. The executioners hunt four friends, and the film ends with a series of brutal and gory scenes rewarding the audience.
What lies behind (2000)
Plot: Claire (Michelle Pfeiffer) and her husband Norman (Harrison Ford) feel a presence in the house. Claire has a friend who is a spiritualist, and the two of them use a ouija board in an attempt to contact what Claire is after.
Witchcraft 3: Obsession (1995)
Like the previous film, the story of part 3 is not related to its prequels. In this final installment of the franchise, a demon disguised as a human uses a ouija board to possess a man named Brian (David Nerman).
Brian's wife Julie (Elizabeth Lambert) begins to suspect something is wrong and begins a race against time to save her husband's soul.
Witchboard 2 (1993)
Although this story is not related to the 1987 Witchcraft Board, the second film in the series is similar to the first in that it emphasizes the mystery over supernatural fears.
At Witchboard 2, Paige (Ami Dolenz) finds a Ouija board after moving into a new apartment. The board connects Paige to an entity who calls herself Susan, and their conversations are sweet and funny at first. As Paige learns more about Susan, things take a sinister turn.
Sorority Massacre 2 (1990)
Vfilm Massacre at the Sorority 2» a group of five young women spend the night in a house they recently bought for their sorority. They discover that the house was so cheap because of a series of brutal murders that took place in it.
Before the night is even over, the girls also discover a ouija board in the basement. They use the board, of course, to contact the killer who died at the end of his killing spree, and then, of course, the women start dying in violent ways.
No Panic (1988)
After Michael (John Michael Bischof) gets a ouija board for his birthday, Michael becomes the prime suspect when his friends start dying in horrific ways.
Michael and his friends unleashed something evil when they tested his new Ouija board, and Michael, having started having visions of murders, is the only person who can stop the carnage.
Witchcraft Board (1987)
Unlike many of the other films on this list, The Witching Board doesn't just use a ouija board as a one-time tool to move the plot forward. Instead, writer/director Kevin S. Tenney intended to use the Ouija board as another character in the film.
The Witchboard stars Tony Kittain as Linda, a woman who is engrossed in talking to the spirit of a boy named David.
The plot unfolds to reveal a number of funny, low-budget murders and some memorable chilling moments, but ultimately the film proves to be as much of a mystery as it is a supernatural horror movie.
Amityville 3-D (1983)
In the film, skeptical journalist John Baxter (Tony Roberts) moves into a haunted Amityville house after being exposed by a medium holding a fake séance in the house. John does not believe in the paranormal, but he and his family begin to experience unexplained events from the moment they move.
Blood of Satan (1978)
In Satan's Blood Married couple Andres and Ana meet another couple, Bruno and Berta, while in town. One thing leads to another, and Andres and Ana end up joining Bruno and Bertha for a séance session at their home.
The decorations in Bruno and Bertha's home indicate a strong interest in the occult, but the extent of their interest is not fully revealed until the speedy session has moved into the sinister category. A trip to visit Andres and Anna is ruined by this, and the couple ends up fighting to keep their lives and their souls intact.
Exorcist (1973)
The film stars Linda Blair as Regan, a 12-year-old girl who is possessed by a demon after being contacted by Captain Howdy. Regan finds Ouija board in the closet, and when she tries to introduce her mother Chris (Ellen Burstyn) to Captain Howdy using the plank, Captain Howdy wants nothing to do with her.
More séance films
- "When Clouds Roll By" (1919) is a comedy starring Douglas Fairbanks, and the film's use of a ouija board contains no supernatural elements, as the characters push the board themselves while talking shyly to each other.
- Oujia board (1920) is part of a series of comedy shorts by Max Fleischer under the general title Out of the Inkwell , and Ouija is again used for comedy rather than supernatural horror.
- straight is the way (1921) uses board oujia, to inform needy in cash to a woman and her niece that treasures are hidden in their house in this light-hearted silent comedy.
- "Charlie Chan's Secret" (1936) includes two sessions in which the master detective tries to solve the murder mystery of the heir to a fortune, and a ouija board can be seen briefly as the victim's aunt uses the device with her butler.
- Mothers Day (1980) is a low-budget black comedy revenge film about a deranged mother and her two murderous sons who kidnap and torture three women. As the women flee, one of the sons turns to the Ouija board for help, though the spirit he contacts must be as illiterate as himself.
- In "Death Messages" (1985) has several examples of the use of a ouija board to unravel a rather convoluted plot in this made-for-television mystery.
- "The Cold Factor" (1993) also known as "Demon Possessed" , is a ouija board-like board referred to as the "devil's eye" in the film. The film is about a group of people stuck in a snowy hut who release demonic power after using a devil's eye.
- Makeup (1995) uses an ouija-like board to summon a huge monster that is chasing a group of cavers. The movie has some great gore and a memorable monster, but there's a lot of downtime between acts.
- "Kokkuri" (1997) is the creepy start to the Japanese horror boom of the late 1990s, featuring ominous predictions made on a spirit board inspired by Ouija boards.
- Holy Terror (2002) is a low-budget trifle depicting gratuitous nudity and a vicious nun who (eventually) kills everyone after being summoned by a ouija board.
- Exorcism: The Possession of Gail Bowers (2006) has a familiar plot structure inspired by other Ouija films, but it has some really good visuals during the exorcism at the film's climax.
- "Ju-On: White Ghost" (2009) like the other films in the franchise" ju-on ", is a collection of interconnected stories about ghosts . One story shows schoolgirls playing "kokkuri", a game almost identical to uija.
- The Unleashed (2011) is a fairly standard movie about an obsession with a woman who becomes the target of something sinister after finding an ancient Ouija board in the attic of her family home.
- Session: "Challenge" (2011) includes a session that took place in a mortuary where a person is possessed by a demon during a session with a ouija board. His friends try to subdue and exile him before he goes free and kills them in particularly gruesome ways.
- Ouija experiment (2011) includes scary stuff that is fairly typical of the found footage subgenre. The immersion breaks from time to time, but fans of the found shooting style may want to give it a try.
- "Meetings in the Graves 2" (2012) is a group of film students who are trying to make a documentary that proves that the first film " Meetings in the Graves (2011) was real. During a session with a makeshift Ouija board, they awaken a paranormal entity that killed the film's actors, thus accidentally creating their own film from the materials they found.
- "Drug addicts" (2013) also known as " Rehabilitation" , is a low-budget horror film about a reporter who enters the fight for her life when she and her friends are pursued by a supernatural killer in an abandoned rehab facility. The Ouija Board briefly appears in the opening scene, right before the blood starts to fly.
- Tape_13 (2014) is a found footage film in which tells about a couple on holiday in Germany who end up in a forest cabin with new friends. The Ouija board game begins a series of supernatural occurrences that build up to an ending that appears to be inspired by The Blair Witch Project (1999).
- Demon Legacy (2014) is the story of five sorority sisters in a remote forest cabin who unleash an evil entity when they discover an old Ouija board. This low-budget film is notable for featuring Eileen Dietz, the face of Pazuzu from "The Exorcist" (1973).
- Ouija Experiment 2: Theater of Death (2014) contains an interesting meta-scenario in which participants in the first Experiment Ouija (2011) play themselves as they are being stalked during a screening of their film.
- Evil Deeds: Full Circle (2016) is an anthology film containing a series of horror-themed short films, including a story about a spirit of vengeance unleashed by a ouija board.
- Ghost Team (2016) stars Jon Heder and Justin Long as wannabe Ghostbusters in this hilarious indie comedy. The Ghost team (as they call themselves) begin their investigation in an old barn with a séance session moderated by a medium played by Amy Sedaris.
- At the beginning of this low-budget Russian horror movie, the movie «Escape: In Search of Fear" (2018) Ouija board is used as a means to recruit a group of friends to participate in a deadly quest game.
- The Addams Family (2019) includes a scene where Morticia Addams uses a ouija board to contact his dead relatives in this animated family comedy.
- Weedjies: Halloweed Night (2019) is a horror comedy in the spirit of Ghoulies about tiny monsters (so-called Weedjies) that are released into the wild through the Weed-G-Board.Ridiculous marijuana jokes abound in this silly comedy from the movie Full Moon Features.
- Ouija House (2019) tries to create a new type of ownership when a young woman is transformed into a human tablet who is forced to run around the house pointing at the letters painted on the walls.
- Ouija Shark (2020) is as ridiculous as the title sounds. A homemade ouija board made from driftwood summons a ghostly shark that preys on people from pools to cabins in the forest.
- Ouija Warehouse (2021) is the third low-budget spirin-related horror film written and directed by Israel Luna, this time following a group of friends who are being stalked after they find a ouija board in a warehouse. Also known as Ouija: Deadly Reunion .
- "Ouija Japan" (2021) is a super-low-budget battle royale film in which the assassination is initiated by a Japanese uiji board (kokkuri).
