What actually happens
A fake psychic and a very real foreclosure notice
Alice Zander, a widow in 1967 Los Angeles, makes a living as a fake spiritual medium from her suburban house, helped by her daughters, fifteen-year-old Lina and nine-year-old Doris. Their father Roger died recently, and the family is still raw about it. Alice adds a Ouija board to her readings without realizing she has reached a real spirit called Marcus, who begins to possess Doris. Then a foreclosure notice arrives. Doris asks the board for help, believing she is talking to her dead father, and it leads her to a hidden compartment in the basement wall with a pouch of cash inside. The family holds a Ouija session with the money in hand, and Alice is thrilled when the board correctly answers a question that only Roger could have known. She decides the family has a line to him.
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Polish homework from a nine-year-old
Doris soon becomes fully possessed. She throws tantrums whenever anyone says the word school, because she would rather stay home with the board. Lina finds pages that Doris wrote in fluent Polish, a language neither of them speaks, and takes them to Father Tom Hogan, who is her school principal. He comes over for a session, saying he wants to reach his dead wife, Gloria. Afterward he explains that Doris never reached Gloria. She was reading his mind and repeating whatever he was thinking. The pages are the writing of Marcus, a Polish immigrant held in the house's basement during World War II by a sadistic Nazi doctor, who experimented on him and other captives. Those spirits have been watching the family since they moved in. When Father Tom asks what they want, Doris says one word: "Voice."
A doll with its mouth stitched shut
This is the stretch to brace for. When Lina's new boyfriend, Mikey, comes over, Doris kills him. Father Tom, Alice and Lina put the Ouija board in the basement furnace to burn it, and shortly afterward find it sitting undamaged on a table upstairs. Next to the furnace, Father Tom discovers the hidden room where the experiments took place, and the spirits possess him. Doris later kills him. Alice is captured, and Roger's spirit carries Lina, unconscious, to her bed. Lina remembers that her father's spirit once stitched the mouth of Doris's doll shut to shut out the voices, and decides she has to do the same to her sister. Near the end of the story she sews Doris's mouth closed, and Doris dies in the process. The doll is your warning, since it appears well before this scene does.
The ending, explained
Doris wakes as a ghost, delighted to see her father again. The spirits possess Lina, and she stabs Alice, who tells her with her last words that none of it was her fault. Lina is left an orphan and is admitted to a mental hospital for her mother's death and her sister's disappearance. Alone in her room, she draws a Ouija board on the floor in her own blood and tries to call Doris, but an evil spirit in Doris's form answers instead. A scene during the credits jumps ahead 46 years. Lina is elderly and still institutionalized when someone claiming to be her niece visits, and she greets them with a wide smile.
The post-credits ruling
Yes, there is a scene during the credits. It jumps ahead 46 years to an elderly Lina, who is still institutionalized and smiling at a visitor who says she is her niece.
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Questions people ask at 1am
Is Ouija: Origin of Evil scary?
Yes, Ouija: Origin of Evil is a 5 out of 10 with a Medium dread level. The jump scares come often, and the fear comes from a possessed child and a house with a history.
How does Ouija: Origin of Evil end?
Lina sews Doris's mouth shut and Doris dies in the process, then the spirits possess Lina and she stabs her mother Alice. Lina ends up in a mental hospital, where she tries to summon Doris and gets something else.
Does the dog die in Ouija: Origin of Evil?
There is no dog in Ouija: Origin of Evil, so none dies. No animals appear in the movie at all.
Is there a post-credits scene in Ouija: Origin of Evil?
Yes. A scene during the credits jumps ahead 46 years to an elderly Lina, who is still institutionalized and greets a visitor claiming to be her niece with a wide smile.
What do the spirits want in Ouija: Origin of Evil?
The spirits belong to captives who were experimented on in the house's basement during World War II, including a Polish immigrant named Marcus. When Father Tom asks what they want, Doris answers with one word: voice.
