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Ouija (2014 Film)
''Ouija'' is a 2014 American supernatural horror film directed by Stiles White in his directorial debut, produced by Jason Blum, Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Bradley Fuller, and Bennett Schneir and written by Juliet Snowden and White, who previously together wrote ''The Possession''. It stars Olivia Cooke, Daren Kagasoff, Douglas Smith, and Bianca A. Santos as teenagers who have unleashed spirits from a Ouija board. ''Ouija'' was released on October 24, 2014, by Universal Pictures. The film was a commercial success, grossing $103.6 million worldwide over a $5–8 million budget, but was overwhelmingly panned by critics, with many criticizing its performances, inconsistent tone, characters and story. A prequel, '' Ouija: Origin of Evil'', was released in 2016, and was far better critically received. Plot Debbie Galardi recalls playing Ouija with her best friend Laine Morris as children. In present day, she throws her Ouija board into the fire and implies to Laine that somethin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stiles White
Stiles White is an American special effects artist, television writer, television producer, screenwriter, film producer, and film director. He is best known for writing the film '' Knowing'' and writing and directing the film ''Ouija''. He is also known for co-writing screenplays with his wife Juliet Snowden. Career White began his career as a production assistant for Stan Winston Studios, working on projects ranging from ''Interview with the Vampire'' to ''Galaxy Quest''. In 2004, he co-created the short-lived animated television series ''Da Boom Crew''. White made his screenwriting debut co-writing the 2005 horror film ''Boogeyman'' with his future spouse, Juliet Snowden. In 2014, White made his directing debut with the supernatural horror film ''Ouija'', based on the Hasbro's board game of same name whose script he once again co-wrote with Snowden. The film was released on October 24, 2014 by Universal Pictures, grossing more than $102 million with a budget of just $5 m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Board Of Film Classification
The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC, previously the British Board of Film Censors) is a non-governmental organisation founded by the British film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of films exhibited at cinemas and video works (such as television programmes, trailers, adverts, public information/campaigning films, menus, bonus content, etc.) released on physical media within the United Kingdom. It has a statutory requirement to classify all video works released on VHS, DVD, Blu-ray (including 3D and 4K UHD formats), and, to a lesser extent, some video games under the Video Recordings Act 1984. The BBFC was also the designated regulator for the UK age-verification scheme which was abandoned before being implemented. History and overview The BBFC was established in 1912 as the British Board of Film Censors by members of the film industry, who preferred to manage their own censorship than to have national or local g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robyn Lively
Robyn Elaine Lively Johnson (born February 7, 1972) is an American actress. She is known for her roles in the 1989 films ''Teen Witch'' and '' The Karate Kid Part III.'' She is also known for her roles in the TV shows '' Doogie Howser, M.D.''; ''Twin Peaks''; ''Savannah''; and '' Saving Grace''. Early life Robyn Lively was born into a family of actors in Powder Springs, Georgia; her mother, adoptive father, and all four siblings are, or have been,in the entertainment industry. She is the daughter of talent manager Elaine Lively (''née'' McAlpin) and her first husband Ronald Otis (Ronnie) Lively. Her siblings are sister Lori and brother Jason, and her half-siblings are Eric and Blake. Career Lively began her career as a child actress: at age six, she made her screen debut in the television movie '' Summer of My German Soldier'' in 1978. Throughout the 1980s, she appeared in several television shows including '' Silver Spoons'', '' Punky Brewster'' and ''Starman''. She appear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lin Shaye
Linda Shaye (born October 12, 1943) is an American film, television, and theater actress. In a career spanning over forty years, she has appeared in more than a hundred feature films. She is perhaps best known for her starring role as Elise Rainier in the ''Insidious'' film series (2010–2018), and as Magda in '' There's Something About Mary''. Shaye is regarded as a scream queen due to her roles in various horror films, including '' Alone in the Dark'' (1982), ''A Nightmare on Elm Street'' (1984), '' Critters'' (1986) and its sequel '' Critters 2: The Main Course'' (1988), '' Amityville: A New Generation'' (1993), '' Wes Craven's New Nightmare'' (1994), '' Dead End'' (2003), ''2001 Maniacs'' (2005) and its sequel '' 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams'' (2010), ''Ouija'' (2014) and its prequel '' Ouija: Origin of Evil'' (2016), ''Tales of Halloween'' (2015), ''Abattoir'' (2016), '' The Final Wish'' (2018), '' Room for Rent'' (2019), ''The Grudge'' (2020), and the '' Insidious '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shelley Hennig
Shelley Catherine Hennig (born January 2, 1987) is an American actress and model. She is the recipient of several accolades, including a Teen Choice Award and two Daytime Emmy Award nominations. Prior to pursuing an acting career, Hennig competed in beauty pageants and won the Miss Teen USA 2004 competition. She landed her first major role as Stephanie Johnson on the soap opera ''Days of Our Lives'' (2007–2011, 2017) and went on to appear in The CW supernatural teen drama '' The Secret Circle'' (2011–2012). She gained further prominence for portraying Malia Tate on the MTV supernatural drama series ''Teen Wolf'' (2014–2017) and has appeared in the films ''Ouija'' (2014), ''Unfriended'' (2014), and ''When We First Met'' (2018). Early life Hennig was born in Metairie, Louisiana, on January 2, 1987, the daughter of Cathy Distefano Gosset and Glenn H. Hennig Sr. She lived in St. Rose, Louisiana, and later moved to Destrehan, Louisiana. Three years before she won the Miss Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Coto
Ana Cristina Coto (born October 17, 1990) is an American actress, best known for playing the lead role of Sarah Morris in the film ''Ouija''. Life and career Coto was born in Puerto Rico, to Cuban parents. She later moved to Miami with her parents, and was raised there. In 2014, Coto played the lead role of Sarah Morris in the supernatural horror film ''Ouija'' along with Olivia Cooke. Stiles White directed the film, which released on October 24, 2014, by Universal Pictures. In 2015, Coto appeared as a guest in the comedy television series ''Comedy Bang! Bang!'' as Kelly Mulligan. Coto plays the titular role in the upcoming dramatic short film, "The Sleeping Life Of Sofia." In the film, Coto plays Sofia Morales, a lonely painter who sleeps to escape her depression. TikTok As of April 2021, Coto has 2.1 million followers on the short video sharing platform TikTok. In late April 2020, she gained fame on the platform for a viral video of her roller skating to the song "Jenny ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Planchette
A planchette ( or ), from the French for "little plank", is a small, usually heart-shaped flat piece of wood equipped with two wheeled casters and a pencil-holding aperture pointing downwards, used to facilitate automatic writing. The use of planchettes to produce mysterious written messages gave rise to the belief that the devices foster communication with spirits as a form of mediumship. The devices were popular in séances during the Victorian era, before their eventual evolution into the simpler, non-writing pointing devices for ouija boards that eclipsed the popularity of their original form. Scientists explain the motion is due to the ideomotor effect, but paranormal advocates believe the planchette is moved by the presence of spirits or some form of subtle energy. Planchettes took on a variety of forms during the height of their popularity. American planchettes were traditionally heart- or shield-shaped, but manufacturers produced a wide range of shapes and sizes hop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paranormal Activity
Paranormal events are purported phenomena described in popular culture, folk, and other non-scientific bodies of knowledge, whose existence within these contexts is described as being beyond the scope of normal scientific understanding. Notable paranormal beliefs include those that pertain to extrasensory perception (for example, telepathy), spiritualism and the pseudosciences of ghost hunting, cryptozoology, and ufology. Proposals regarding the paranormal are different from scientific hypotheses or speculations extrapolated from scientific evidence because scientific ideas are grounded in empirical observations and experimental data gained through the scientific method. In contrast, those who argue for the existence of the paranormal explicitly do not base their arguments on empirical evidence but rather on anecdote, testimony, and suspicion. The standard scientific models give the explanation that what appears to be paranormal phenomena is usually a misinterpretation, mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Psychiatric Hospital
Psychiatric hospitals, also known as mental health hospitals, behavioral health hospitals, are hospitals or wards specializing in the treatment of severe mental disorders, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, dissociative identity disorder, major depressive disorder and many others. Psychiatric hospitals vary widely in their size and grading. Some hospitals may specialize only in short-term or outpatient therapy for low-risk patients. Others may specialize in the temporary or permanent containment of patients who need routine assistance, treatment, or a specialized and controlled environment due to a psychiatric disorder. Patients often choose voluntary commitment, but those whom psychiatrists believe to pose significant danger to themselves or others may be subject to involuntary commitment and involuntary treatment. Psychiatric hospitals may also be called psychiatric wards/units (or "psych" wards/units) when they are a subunit of a regular hospital. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suicide By Hanging
Suicide by hanging is the intentional killing of oneself (suicide) via suspension from an anchor-point such as an overhead beam or hook, by a rope or cord or by jumping from a height with a noose around the neck. Hanging is often considered to be a simple suicide method that does not require complicated techniques; a study of people who attempted suicide by hanging and lived usually suggests that this perception may not be accurate. It is one of the most commonly used suicide methods and has a high mortality rate; Gunnell ''et al''. gives a figure of at least 70 percent. The materials required are easily available, making it a difficult method to prevent. In the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, suicides by hanging are classified under the code X70: "Intentional self-harm by hanging, strangulation, and suffocation.""Trends". Hanging is divided into suspension hanging and the much rarer drop hanging — the latter ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ouija Board
The ouija ( , ), also known as a spirit board or talking board, is a flat board marked with the letters of the Latin alphabet, the numbers 0–9, the words "yes", "no", occasionally "hello" and "goodbye", along with various symbols and graphics. It uses a planchette (small heart-shaped piece of wood or plastic) as a movable indicator to spell out messages during a séance. Participants place their fingers on the planchette, and it is moved about the board to spell out words. "Ouija" is a trademark of Hasbro, but is often used generically to refer to any talking board. Spiritualists in the United States believed that the dead were able to contact the living and reportedly used a talking board very similar to a modern Ouija board at their camps in the U.S. state of Ohio in 1886 to ostensibly enable faster communication with spirits. Following its commercial introduction by businessman Elijah Bond on 1 July 1890, the Ouija board was regarded as an innocent parlor game unre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Origin Of Evil
''Ouija: Origin of Evil'' is a 2016 American supernatural horror film directed and edited by Mike Flanagan and written by Flanagan and Jeff Howard. The film is a prequel to the 2014 film ''Ouija'' and stars Elizabeth Reaser, Annalise Basso, and Henry Thomas. A widow and her family introduce a Ouija board into their phony seance business, thereby inviting a spirit that possesses the youngest daughter. ''Ouija: Origin of Evil'' was released in the United States on October 21, 2016, by Universal Pictures. The film grossed over $81 million worldwide and received critical acclaim, with many praising it as a significant improvement over its predecessor. Plot In 1967 Los Angeles, a young widow named Alice Zander works out of her suburban home as a spiritual medium, accompanied by her daughters, 15-year-old Paulina "Lina" and 9-year-old Doris. The family is reeling over the recent death of Roger, Alice's husband and the kids' father. Alice incorporates a Ouija board into her readi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
