Ouija: Origin of Evil. Now that I've seen all of Mike Flannagin's catalog of feature length films I kinda feel like he's the "pretty good, but not great" horror director outside Oculus which was pretty great (and I liked his first full budget film Absentia just for the spider dimensional troll monster). Like Ouija was pretty well directed and acted, had a handful of subplots, had some mystery, had that nice retro feel to it (I really liked the burn marks for reel changes in the top right corner throughout), had some spookiness, blah blah blah it's solid. But at the same time it's just sorta excorcist wannabe evil kid crawling on walls and ceilings going AHHHHHHHHH for like the end 25% and kinda silly. Like I felt there was tension before that but by the end instead of "the spooky shit you can't see" it's just a bunch of screaming little demon girl and I don't find this scary at all. So in the end I was kinda /shrug but it was fine.
Saw that he's the one directing Dr. Sleep with McGregor. Considering the novel is the definition of /shrug meh, I don't have high expectations on him pulling a Kuberick Shining changing it all for the better. Probably just be a "pretty good, not great" solid adaptation of an ok-ish book. Can't say I'm too excited. Maybe if he starts making some less safe horror films I'll be excited for his stuff again.
