Its difficult to make a board game scary.
1995sJumanjiscared younger viewers because of the way its premise evoked the terrors of kidnapping and child abuse.
Plus, that movies board game was made up, allowing it to remain mysterious and unexpectedly horrifying.
She will later grow up to be the villain of the 2014Ouijafilm.
The motives and origin of the villainous ghost are a little unexplained (Nazis are involved somehow?
), as is the standard for bizarre occurrences in this universe.
As a result, the movie has no room to build dramatic tension or psychological horror.
Instead, it relies mostly on jump scares and demonic special effects.
