Ouija Board (2004)

A high school girl moves from Seoul to a small remote village, where she is constantly harassed and bullied by the jealous common village girls. In a desperate bid to get back at her classmates, she tries to conjure a ghost to haunt them.

Director:

Byeong-ki Ahn

Writer:

Byeong-ki Ahn

Stars:

Gyu-ri Kim, Se-eun Lee, Yu-ri Lee

Cast

Credited cast:
Gyu-ri Kim	...	Lee Eun-ju
Se-eun Lee	...	Lee Yu-jin
Yu-ri Lee	...	Kim In-suk
Seong-min Choi	...	Han Jae-hun
Jeong-yun Choi	...	Ho-kyeong
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Yoo-jin Im
Jeong-hwa Kang
Seong-eun Tak

Storyline

Yu-jin and her blind mother move to a small village from Seoul. On her first day at the new school, Yu-jin gets picked on by her classmates. Along with other victims of hatred, Yu-jin puts a curse on the four girls tormenting them through a Ouija Board. On her second day at school, one of the spellbound bursts into flames and dies just as she sits down where Yu-jin used the board. The next day, another victim burns to death, and now the school is enclosed by horror.

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Plot Keywords:

school | ouija board | curse | death | psychopath | 

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Taglines:

Being the new kid in school... can be hell.

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Genres:

Horror | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong violence and disturbing images

Did You Know?

Quotes

Lee Yu-jin: Something strange... Has entered my body.

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Soundtracks

Ya li v pole da ne travushka byla? (Was I Not a Little Blade of Grass?), Op.47-7
Written by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (as Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
Lyrics by Ivan Zakharievich Surikov

User Reviews

It's not terribly original or scary, but it's nice

Vengeful ghosts return to haunt and destroy the people that caused their death. You might recognize a little of The Ring, as the mother had special mental powers. The ghosts, of course, have that hair effect with the eyes looking ... ghastly.

A nice plot element is that the ghosts in this film really do have purpose, other than just killing and avenging. They do that beautifully, of course, but as a hobby not as a full time job :)

The problem with the film is that it is not scary. The good ideas in the script are not fully capitalized. When people from a small isolated village see their children die inexplicably one would expect great turmoil and a lot of interesting things happening. Alas it was too low a budget to cover for this. Therefore everything in the movie seems shrunk, detached, to fit the budget.

So, it's a nice film to watch for cultists and horror fans, but not a great movie, almost not a good one.

Details

Country:

South Korea

Language:

Korean

Release Date:

30 July 2004 (South Korea)

Also Known As:

Witch Board

Box Office

Budget:

$2,500,000 (estimated)

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$2,117,269

Company Credits

Production Co:

A-Post Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

120 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1