Seance movie stills11/23/2023 ![]() I can’t imagine why a lawyer would want important papers dumped on the doorstep of an abandoned house many miles from civilization instead of his office. I also can’t count how many movies I’ve criticized for using the same setup of college friends partying at an isolated place in the forest. However, a red tape snafu requires her to drop off paperwork directly at the house in the middle of nowhere. Sarah posted the property for sale sight unseen and it’s slated for demolition. Sarah inherited a house in the deep countryside from a grandmother she never met. Weekend plans involve heading to a party with Barbara’s arrogant boyfriend Guillame as well as Rico, who harbors a romantic interest in Sarah.īureaucracy gets in the way when Sarah receives a phone call from an electric company’s lawyer. Nearing the end of her term and just two weeks from returning home, Sarah sets her sights on celebrating with best friend Barbara. “Ouija Séance” opens on Sarah, an American studying abroad in Italy, from where the maternal side of her family hails. Still, the basic premise has been done to death and then some, though “Ouija Séance” picks a bafflingly roundabout path to get there. The one-line summary essentially boils down “Ouija Séance” to a movie where four friends run afoul of paranormal possession after using a spirit board while partying at a remote house in the woods. I don’t necessarily mean that in a strictly unflattering way, although I definitely don’t mean to imply it has “Beyond the Black Rainbow” or “Killer Klowns from Outer Space” oddity appeal either. Strengthened by seeing a portrait of her mother, Sarah removes the knife from her chest and uses it to kill Rico. Dante realizes that the shadow jumped from Guillame to Rico when he discovers Guillame’s dead body in a discarded bathtub outside. While Sarah treats Rico’s stab wound, Dante goes to look for Guillame. However, Guillame breaks free and attacks Rico. Rico remains downstairs with Guillame, who is retrained to a chair. Dante advises that Sarah must face the shadows in the secret room in order to free herself from the family curse.ĭante and Sarah go to the secret room to destroy the cursed board. However, Dante arrives and knocks Guillame unconscious from behind.ĭante finally explains that Sarah’s grandmother Teresa was so distraught by Sarah’s mother leaving Italy, Teresa cursed her to suffer the same pain of losing a daughter. When Sarah and Rico return, Guillame seemingly becomes possessed and moves to attack them. Guillame stays at the house while Sarah and Rico go searching for Bar in the woods.Īfter the power goes out, Guillame violently attacks a figure in the shadows that turns out to be Barbara, whom he inadvertently beats to death. Tension between the quartet as well as a misunderstanding leads Bar to walk off into the night alone. Upon returning to the house, Sarah finds strange pictures her mother drew as a child. Dante gives Sarah a necklace that belonged to her mother. The next day, Sarah has a run-in with Dante, who offers frustratingly little information about her mother or grandmother. That night, Sarah has a nightmare flashback to her mother committing suicide when Sarah was three. A sudden, seemingly supernatural gust from a storm outside spooks the group and promptly puts an end to their séance. The quartet discovers a hidden door leading to a room containing tinctures, a grimoire, and a Ouija board carved from a tree stump. Sarah, Bar, Guillame, and Rico agree to salvage their broken weekend plans by staying at the house to party. ![]() Sarah explains that her mother claimed to have amnesia and did not remember anything about her life in Italy. ![]() Sarah and Bar explore a bedroom that belonged to Sarah’s mother. Upon arriving at the house, the four friends are startled by disfigured property caretaker Dante, who utters a cryptic warning about going upstairs before leaving. On their drive to the remote home in deep country, Sarah, Bar, Guillame, and Rico find out that the party was cancelled. However, Sarah learns from a lawyer that she must first drop off paperwork at a deserted house slated for demolition that she inherited from her grandmother Teresa whom she never met. Nearing the end of her term as an art restoration student in Italy, American Sarah Williams plans to attend a party with her best friend and roommate Barbara, Barbara’s arrogant boyfriend Guillame, and Rico, who has a romantic interest in Sarah.
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