Ouija: Origin of Evil
- sombre
- brisk
- extreme
- inventive
Sombre, kinetic, extreme horror / supernatural, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →In 1967 Los Angeles, a widowed mother and her two daughters add a new stunt to bolster their séance scam business and unwittingly invite authentic evil into their home. When the youngest daughter is overtaken by the merciless spirit, this small family confronts unthinkable fears to save her and send her possessor back to the other side.
Our read · Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive horror · supernatural entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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