It looks to be a real Ouija Board they're using in the film, or were there slight modifications made to it just in case so to not stir anything up? I wonder if anything unexplained happened on the set. Then again, if something "happened" and was leaked, how would we know if it was for real or just for publicity. Hmm.
I once played dis game and somebody asked who my friend likez and then we went on 2 spell my name and then she blushed but a week later we went on a date so dis stuph is 4 real
If this guy believes in the Ouija board, then guaranteed, he's never getting fellatio. He's gonna have to come out from his basement in his parents house first and put down his video game controller.
As someone already pointed out, there's no such thing as a 'proper' Ouija board. I did loads of Ouija sessions as a teenager with nothing more than scrabble letters, a whiskey tumbler and pieces of paper for numbers, yes/no, and ?. Most of the time it would 'tell' us stuff at least one person present already knew, but there was some freaky stuff that no-one knew but would later turn out to be true. I always put 99% of it down to a rational explanation, but that 1% was unexplainable.
When the object you are touching moves a fraction, (which it inevitably will do with people touching it!) everyone has to follow the movement in order for their fingers to stay in contact with the moving object. This creates momentum especially with a slippery surface and very little friction.
This movement can be very easily influenced especially with a little hysteria.
Try it, you will find you can influence the direction of the movement without putting any 'perceived' physical influence on the Ouija.
You can do it with pretty much any random object that offers little movement resistance.
It has nothing to do with summoning spirits. It's simple science.
Curses and strange phenomena plague a lot of movie sets, so perhaps this is why you are asking this question? Poltergeist's curse is linked to using real bones during the pool scene.
When I worked on Murder Call in Australia our offices and set were apparently haunted, and quite a few cast and crew had stories. The security guard would report all manner of things, including a thick soundproof set door shutting behind her, despite it being very heavy and being left open. Google this stuff and many a movie, not all horror, has been plagued with odd happenings, deaths, fires...
A lot of it is down to belief. Hundreds of people work on a movie normally... if over a short period some of those people (or people linked to them) die strange or tragic deaths then is that not perhaps law of averages, or mere co-incidence?
Actual hauntings- people SEEING ghosts on set - are less reported. Whilst things might disappear and turn up again, or people hear bumps, lights exploding, feeling drafts or other such phenomenon, actual ghostly sighting are few and far between. I'm sure that if you spoke to cast and crew of Ouija there would be a tale or two that could perhaps be debated as to being bad luck, out of the ordinary but explainable, or 'supernatural' depending on which side of the fence you sit on and perhaps because you are filming that kind of movie it would be the first explanation you would think of. Actors are a highly charged bunch and film sets are highly charged environments. I'm willing to bet they had some sort of occultist on set with experience in ouija to help allay cast/crew fears. Your question is a valid one despite other naysayers on this board.
It's too cerebral! We're trying to make a movie here, not a film!
Riggghhhtt... And once the investors caught the producers pissing away money on an 'occultist' their careers would end. Abruptly. It's about money..not belief.. Quit pretending you know anything about film production.
If you know anything about actors, you know they are superstitious. Why don't you take that rod out of your arse? I worked in film production for years. I've been on sets which were 'haunted'. So why don't you quit pretending you know anything about me, or what you think I know?
It's too cerebral! We're trying to make a movie here, not a film!
Actors may hire others, and have them on set, with permission, when powerful enough to contract or demand such absurdity..Not, I think, with the level this production was at.. Anyone in the staff or crew can keep their personal problems to themselves, or seek work elsewhere.. That's the reality. No Producer , in the business, would last the day, stating his/her set was 'haunted' and hire 'occultists'. That is beyond silly, not to mention, unforgivably unprofessional