Blumhouse knows you hated ‘Ouija.’ Here’s how they’re making it up to you.
Blumhouse knows you didn”t like Ouija — and they”re doing their best to make it up to you.
With a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 7% and a “C” CinemaScore, it”s fair to say the Stiles White-directed horror film wasn”t one of last year”s better-received fright flicks. And yet the Blumhouse-produced movie made an undeniable $100 million-plus worldwide on a $5 million budget, making a sequel seem all but certain.
So where to go with the follow-up to a film that a lot of people saw and most of those people hated? To their credit, Blumhouse seems intent on making the next film in the series — October”s Ouija: Origin of Evil — a more quality production by hiring a tried-and-tested auteur to take the helm. That would be Mike Flanagan, who scored a critical and commercial hit with 2013″s Oculus and won plaudits for this year”s bare-bones Netflix-premiered horror/thriller Hush, which made best possible use of its $1 million production budget (he also did some uncredited — and unspecified — work on the first Ouija). Not only is Origin of Evil a prequel rather than a sequel to the first film, it feels as close as possible to being a reboot without actually being dubbed as such.
Guess that's up to us.