Lanie reluctantly leaves and Debbie goes back inside the house, eats dinner by herself and feels a presence in the house (door opens by itself and stove lights up). She goes up to her bedroom and sees the Ouija board on the bed, untouched. She decides to look into the board’s eye and becomes possessed by an evil spirit and hangs herself. The next day, Lanie, Isabella and her boyfriend Trevor wait at a neighbourhood cafe for Debbie while planning to watch a movie later tonight. Then, Lanie gets an urgent text from her Dad and when she gets home she gets the news that Debbie committed suicide last night. Lanie goes to Debbie’s house to mourn with Debbie’s family and the like the rest of her friends and family, they were filled with questions about her ‘suicide’. Lanie hugs Pete, Debbie’s boyfriend and goes up to Debbie’s room where she sees the Ouija board and was convinced that it may have played a part in her friend’s death.
Lanie talks to Debbie’s mom and they discuss how full of optimism Debbie was for college. She agrees to house-sit for them while they stay at another friend’s house. While Lanie was cleaning up a bit Debbie’s house, her boyfriend Trevor covered up the pool. She hears sounds from Debbie’s room and goes up to investigate and sees the Ouija board again. She decides to enlist Trevor’s help to use the board to contact Debbie and they are later joined by their friend Isabelle, Debbie’s boyfriend, Pete and her sister Sarah. On the first time that they play the board, the group was able to contact a spirit named “D”, whom they believe was Debbie. The board spells out ‘Hi Friend’ but Lanie at first thinks that it was Sarah pushing the planchette. Lanie starts to ask Debbie some questions and tell her they miss her then suddenly the power goes out.
The group scatter out into the darkness with Lanie and Trevor going to the kitchen to find the stove burner turned on...it’s a creepy scene while they move stealthily inside the darkened house and Pete approaches a mirror and gets pushed by ‘someone’ from behind, shattering the glass. The friends leave the house and as Trevor drops off Lanie at her house, he worried that she brought the board home and instead advised her to move on, anyway she was already able to say her goodbyes (if it was indeed Debbie they were talking to)
As days passed, Lanie and Isabelle decide not to talk about what happened but Lanie thanked her for doing it with her even if she does not believe in it. Lanie’s grandmother sees the board inside her room and made her promise to stop trying to contact the dead...and she did. However, Pete starts seeing the message ‘Hi Friend’ written on the wall of a creepy tunnel he normally passes by while biking; while Isabelle sees the message written in the windshield of her car; Trevor gets a message, too, etched on his desk; Lanie and Sarah meanwhile gets a visit from a spirit in their own home who was banging doors and just freaking them out, when the noise subsides and they get out of the closet they hid in, they see the same cryptic message on their laptop screen.
The friends decide that maybe it was Debbie’s way of trying to reach them and so they use the board again to ask her why she had been sending ‘Hi Friend’ messages. This time, however, they start asking Debbie if she killed herself and they find out that she did not but someone else did. Pete decided to ask a question he knew Debbie would know and it made them realize that it was not truly Debbie they were talking to but someone named DZ...the spirit that even Debbie contacted when she played the board by herself. Lanie decided to look into the ‘eye’ or glass window of the ‘planchette’ and she sees DZ’s spirit, a young girl with her mouth sewn shut. Then the board spells out ‘RUN’, ‘SHE’S COMING’, ‘MOTHER’. So Lanie looks into the eye once again and sees a woman with a gaping mouth and the board flies up from the table. They scream and run from the house vowing not to play the board again. But Sarah was fearful that maybe they started something like what Debbie did and may also end up dead.
Lanie begins to investigate what happened to Debbie and she discovers a USB with some sort of a video diary in it. Lanie discovers that Debbie found an antique Ouija board while cleaning up their attic and she broke the cardinal rule of never playing alone. That same night, Isabelle is killed by the same spirit that haunted Debbie and which possessed her as she was flossing her teeth. Her mouth gets sewn shut with the floss and then banged her head on the sink, killing her. The guidance counsellor starts to talk to Lanie to teach her how to cope with loss but she brushed him off saying he had no idea what they were going through. Lanie insists that they did not need his help and she doesn’t know who could help them at all.
Lanie decides to talk to Pete and Trevor who seem mad at her for making them play the Ouija and she admits she would never forgive herself for unknowingly causing Isabelle’s death. She was able to convince Pete to go with her to Debbie’s house and she goes up into the attic and finds a box that includes pictures of a mother with two daughters. Before she was able to go down, though, a presence made itself felt to her and she sees a shadow of someone in there. Through further internet research, they learn about a missing girl named Doris Zander who lived in Debbie’s house in the 50s. The mother was the suspect in her mysterious disappearance while the other sister murdered her mother and was taken to a mental institution. They search for and find Paulina, Doris’ sister, in the asylum and Lanie learns that their mom was a medium. She shared with Lanie that their mother used the Ouija board in her séances and Doris was her vessel for the spirits. But something went wrong and their mom went insane as she cannot turn the spirits off so she sews Doris’ mouth shut to keep the spirits from talking. She also admitted that Doris was still inside the house and that’s why she had to kill her own mother.
Paulina also learned that Lanie and her friends used a spirit board that was why they were able to open a channel to the spirit world that awakened their mother and Doris as well. Paulina told Lanie about a secret room in the basement of their house where she thinks their Mother hid Doris’ body. They were told to cut the stitches from Doris’ mouth and pray that Doris can deal with their mother. She told Lanie not to go alone as she won’t be strong enough to fight the spirits. Lanie went with Trevor, Pete and Sarah but Trevor was attacked first by the spirit’s shadow, Pete ran after to save him and the door sealed shut behind them. Lanie continued on to a small opening to get to the secret room and proceeded to cut the stitches from her mouth. Doris was able to overcome her mother’s spirit so Lanie and her friends are now safe. Then, when Pete gets home she sees Debbie in his room who transforms into Doris and kills him.
Laine goes to Paulina to ask why Pete still died when they did everything she asked them to do. She soon realized that Paulina lied to her and it was their mom who was preventing them from using the board. It was Doris who was evil and they helped Paulina to set her free. They approach their grandmother who tells them that they have to destroy both the board and the girl’s body. They seek Trevor’s help who arrives at Debbie’s house early but is killed by Doris by drowning him in the pool. Sarah and Laine go on to the basement and they light up the furnace but Doris takes Sarah away so Laine plays the board alone, to call Doris out. Doris appears and twists her arm, trying to possess her but Debbie arrives to save her friend and while they were busy Sarah takes Doris’ body out and throws it into the furnace. Doris spirit is finally banished and she bursts into ashes. In the end, Lanie and Sarah talk about missing their friends and moving on but when Lanie goes into her room she finds the planchette and she picks it up and peers into the eye but we are not shown what she sees as the movie ends there. Creepy ending, really but it just means that someone else is out there. Overall, I guess the story is kinda spooky as it is based on a creepy board game and though the jump scares are quite predictable, it delivers just the right amount of fright factor for the kids who watched it with me.
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