By Haley McNulty – Entertainment Editor

How far would you go to say that final goodbye?

“Ouija,” a new horror film based on the supernatural game used to come in contact with the dead, scared its way into theaters on October 24 with a highly-praised debut.

After Debbie Galardi plays with a Ouija board she found in her old house, soon after she turns up dead. When Laine Morris, her best friend, mysteriously finds the same board along with footage of Debbie using it, Laine insists on contacting Debbie with her sister, Sarah, their friends, Trevor and Isabelle, and Debbie’s boyfriend, Pete. But what they come in contact with is much more than just their friend.

Soon after, mysterious notes and symbols turn up wherever the friends go, whether it be carved into a desk, written on the window of their car, or spray-painted on a wall on their run. One by one, the friends turn up dead, until Laine refuses to let the innocent game go any further.

Lies are told, the past is uncovered and, with help from her sister, Laine uncovers the truth of the strange Ouija board- and the strange house her friend once inhabited.

Overall, the movie was another great idea that was simply not carried out properly. At first, it felt like the generic “girl goes hears something and then shuts the lights off, going upstairs to see what it was” type of horror film. But by the end of the movie, it got in some great heart-pounding scares (a few people even left the movie midway through), as well as some great plot twists that kept it interesting.

While some aspects of the movie, like how her friends mysteriously started turning up dead (they was never a follow-up on what had actually happened to them, like there was with Debbie) were negatives, I really liked the original plot and how they stuck with it. Who knew an old lady in a nursing home could be so sneaky?

Disappointingly, the messages that the spirit leaves for the friends are always the same thing: “Hello, friend.” They could have come up with more original scares, and more scares in general.

Overall, the movie was a great concept that was simply not produced very well. While it had a great plot, keeping things interesting with plot twists and great graphics, it felt slightly unfinished though it had an understandable resolution.

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars