As the headline suggests, I'm speechless and not in a good way. I don't even know where to began, this is the first piece of cinema that I can sincerely say I was unable to find one positive element out of its entirety. My cinema professor used to say that there was only one movie during his entire profession that he wasn't able to watch to completion. I requested that he give this movie a try and when I asked for his thoughts during our next class meeting, he ignored me (wouldn't even look in my direction) and at the end of class he said that he would be adding this movie to his list.
The title is peculiar considering they adopted many washed up and cliche horror themes and story elements in the film and yet decided to incorporate only one of those underlying themes/elements with the 'blood ritual' title. This movie could have simply been called "Blood Ritual" and yet, the title includes "Ouija"; one could easily infer that the word "Ouija" was included in the title in attempts to establish this low budget indie film with the already established and profitable Ouija film series released by Universal. In other words, this entire film felt like one big gimmick designed to draw in cash from the non-expecting and blissfully unaware movie goer who thinks that they are about to watch an installment of the established Ouija film series.
It's also noteworthy that the only 9/10 review left on this movie has a 2018 post date and the movie was released in mid-2020; so either, someone has a time machine and travelled into the future just to watch this abomination of a film or someone with a connection to the film left a high rating review (during development/pre-production stage) while incorporating some criticism in their writing in an attempt to fool potential watchers of said abominable film.
I'm a live and let live type of person and I don't really believe in telling other people how they should live their lives, but life is precious and because of that I'm begging you.....please don't waste your precious time watching this movie like I did. Learn from my mistakes. Godspeed.
Ouija Blood Ritual
2020
Action / Horror
Ouija Blood Ritual
2020
Action / Horror
Plot summary
The footage of three filmmakers shooting a web series has been recovered. Intending to debunk famous Internet urban legends and rituals, they perform a blood ritual that summons an ancient primordial entity in the process. As the spirit's unstoppable evil seeps into their daily lives the trio are left with a single choice: Submit to its will - or die.
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Speechless
No wonder they couldn't make a show...
Ouija Blood Ritual is just another of the 100 found footage knockoffs made each year.
The plot of a crew investigating urban legends but finds a real one is hardly original but is a reliable one. The problem here is that the 'show' makes up less than ten minutes of the mercifully short runtime. The rest consists of the three talking about the show and each other with the fat nerd cameraman waving the camera around for no reason.
Seriously, it gets extremely annoying that this supposed camera and sound man can't hold the camera still for 2.3 seconds and just records entire car ride conversations while we watch the road for zero reason.
The only positive I can say is the entity itself was done pretty well and did look creepy in it's limited screen time.
The problem with trash like this is the complete lack of care or thought. Blair Witch Project worked because they spent time to develop a lore, set things up and then saw what their characters did. Here things just happen because they need to get a feature run time. Absolutely horrible garbage.
Ouija in name only.
A clear case of a sub-par Found Footage movie adopting an established franchise's name in the hope of selling copies. As a FF film, there is nothing new here and hits the same, tired cliches you've seen countless times and, while I applaud the creation of a new urban legend, this is so weak as to be laughable. Save yourself the pain and skip this tired, plodding cash-in.