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Was I the only one confused by this whole movie!

posted 10 years ago by Queen_BC
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Really from start to finish I was lost. When the movie first came on I didn't understand why Debbie didn't want to go out if she was scared to be alone in the house because she thought she was haunted. Then I didn't understand why the parents left their house after she died, at least for an extended period like they did. Then how and why did the dead girl and her mom get to start the others? And what was the lie that the older woman said she told them. I understand the dead girls mouth was sewn shut, but what did them opening it do? She was already haunting them and killing them so did it matter if her mouth was open or shut? To me this movie was horrible mix of Insidious 2 (the mother being behind the haunting and killings of others) and Scream. The story line was so hard to follow for this story because they seem to have wanted to go in 3 different directions. Another thing that caught me was the video's the friend got after her friend died, who video tapes themselves cleaning?

[–] nl_pics 10 years ago

Well the entire movie was essentially re-shot, so the storyline was butchered in the process. There was a user on these boards who said over 50% of the film was re-shot, and that originally Debbie did not die by hanging herself, she went up on the banister on a chair to remove the beeping smoke detector from the ceiling, then DZ pushed her over the banister off the chair. DZ was a burnt girl originally and there was no mother storyline or anything with her sister Doris, that was all added with the re-shoots.

In the first draft script that user put out for the movie, DZ (although the spirit of a boy) was an evil spirit that lived inside the Ouija board that would latch itself onto people who came in contact with him, and literally mark them with a handprint. Then, he would kill them and move onto the next players. I believe that same essential storyline was what the original Ouija movie was about. Debbie made contact with DZ, who pretends to be a little girl but is actually a demon who uses the ouija board to kill. And a huge theme in that script was Debbie not wanting Laine to play the game because Laine would then die, which I think explains Debbie trying to get Laine to just leave her house at the beginning.

[–] PiinkDanzer 10 years ago

Why didn't they keep that? That would've made more sense

[–] nl_pics 10 years ago

I guess Universal screened the movie in early spring of 2014, and the screening did so bad, they did week long re-shoots at the beginning of June and drastically altered the entire film. They added Lin Shaye and changed the look of Doris Zander from a burnt girl to a girl with stitches in her mouth, and re-did her entire back story.

You could even see the different makeup for Doris here: http://makeupmedia.net/portfolio-page/#/ouija (Big Mike Smithson fan)

I don't know... it's silly that they went and so drastically changed the film when it was made on such a low budget already. It was already guaranteed to make a lot of money anyway, so I don't really see the point...

[–] Goodbye_from_Fox_In_A_Box 9 years ago

To me this movie was horrible mix of Insidious 2 (the mother being behind the haunting and killings of others)

Thanks for the spoiler.

It's only been out for 2 years, WELL out of the "I don't have to say it's a spoiler because the movie has been out for soooooo long" excuse.

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[–] Kelea7 9 years ago

Thanks for the spoiler.

It's only been out for 2 years, WELL out of the "I don't have to say it's a spoiler because the movie has been out for soooooo long" excuse.

But the title of this thread is Was I the only one confused by this whole movie...this implies that the ending of the movie will be discussed. I don't think anyone should have to give warnings about spoilers given the nature of the OP.

[–] Goodbye_from_Fox_In_A_Box 8 years ago

You misinterpreted my point. I was talking about the spoiler for Insidious 2, not Ouija.

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[–] Kelea7 8 years ago

Gotcha. Sorry about that.

[–] preschiousb 9 years ago

I dont understand why Debbie didn't want to leave the house either. She would have obviously been safer at the game full of other people. I understand why the parents wanted to leave the house. Their daughter died there. It would obviously take them quite some time to be able to go back in and live their lives as normal. Its kind of like you didn't watch the movie though because there's an entire scene where we see Laine and the others try and contact Debbie in the house which instead ended up contacting the mother and daughter.Opening the girls mouth got rid of the mother. The mother had been trying to protect them and opening the mouth of the girl which had been keeping her more at bay was what really did them in. The woman lied about the mother being the evil one. My assumption is that she had gone to far with being a medium and accidentally let a lot of bad spirits into her daughter and sewed her daughters mouth shut to keep them out and ended up killing her. I imagine her sister wanted to help her and so she ended up killing her mother in order to help. I feel like a lot of these plot holes can be easily cleared up if you watch the movie. Not saying its a good movie or anything or that it doesn't have plot holes but the ones you pointed out had multiple scenes explaining them.