The game of calling ghosts is one of the mysterious stories exploited by many filmmakers, horror movies with customs or beliefs always make viewers afraid. Revolving around paranormal stories along with creepy scenes make for a successful horror film. With this topic, there are now a lot of attractive movies, let's learn about the scariest horror movies about the game.
1 Ouija
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Ouija
Ouija is a 2014 American supernatural horror film directed by Stiles White. It stars Olivia Cooke, Daren Kagasoff, Douglas Smith, and Bianca A. Santos as teenagers who have released souls from the Ouija board. The film was a commercial success, grossing $103.6 million worldwide on a total budget of $5 million. The film, after its premiere, quickly received the attention of the audience, becoming the best horror film of 2014.
As the name suggests, Ouija exploits the spiritual and mystical elements through the Ouija board. The film is a story revolving around a group of young people participating in a game of summoning spirits. They accidentally awakened a powerful ghost in the ancient Ouija board. Mysteries and terrible troubles keep happening that force them to fight together to get rid of evil spirits. The only way is to destroy the Ouija board and the haunted Ouija board.
2 Ouija: Origin of Evil
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Ouija: Origin of Evil
Ouija: Origin of Evil is a 2016 American supernatural horror film directed by Mike Flanagan. The film is a prequel to the 2014 film Ouija and stars Elizabeth Reaser, Annalise Basso, and Henry Thomas A widow and her family introduce an Ouija board into their fake business, thus inviting a spirit to possess the youngest daughter.
Ouija: Origin of Evil was released in the United States in 2016, by Universal Pictures. The film grossed over $81 million worldwide and received generally positive reviews, with many hailing it as a significant step up from its predecessor. Ouija 2 is actually a prequel, taking the audience back 50 years before part 1. Still in that house, anomalous phenomena occur when a widow and two daughters participate in a summoning session to support illicit business. They continued to participate in the game at the Ouija board and accidentally invited the devil to come to the world. They angrily take over the soul of the youngest daughter and the whole family must face dangers to find a peaceful life again.
3 The Other Side of the Door
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The Other Side of the Door
The Other Side of the Door is a 2016 American-British supernatural horror film directed by Johannes Roberts and co-written by Roberts and Ernest Riera. Starring Sarah Wayne Callies, Jeremy Sisto, Javier Botet and Sofia Rosinsky, the film was released in the United Kingdom and the United States on March 4, 2016. It grossed over $14 million worldwide. from a budget of 5 million dollars.
The story revolves around a foreign family living a happy and simple life in Mumbai - India, until a car accident causes them to lose their son Oliver. That horrible accident left the mother feeling hopeless and guilty for not being able to save her son. She turned to an ancient Hindu ritual to say a final goodbye to her son. Following the instructions, Maria went to the ancient abandoned temple, which contained a door that acted as a mysterious portal between two worlds. It all happened when Maria disobeyed a sacred and terrifying warning: Never, no matter what, never open that door. But when she heard her son's weak call, she couldn't help but feel. It was Maria's actions that upset the balance between life and death.
4 A Dark Song
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A Dark Song
A Dark Song is a 2016 British-Irish independent horror film, written and directed by Liam Gavin, and starring Steve Oram and Catherine Walker. It was released to select cinemas and digital streaming platforms on April 28, 2017. This is Gavin's directorial debut. The film received mostly positive reviews. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, it has a 91% approval rating based on 36 reviews, with an average review score of 7.4/10. Its consensus is: "A Dark Song delivers unsettling horror atmosphere and marks writer-director Liam Gavin as one to watch.
Sophia rents an isolated home in the Welsh countryside to convince the occultist Joseph Solomon to lead her into a grueling, months-long ritual quoted from the Book of Abramelin to summon her guardian angel, whom Sophia can then ask to speak to her dead seven-year-old son. Solomon explains that once they begin, if they leave the house before the ritual is over, they will be in grave danger and Sophia must undergo months of punitive exercises in which they will deal with real devils and angels.
5 The Possession of Michael King
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The Possession of Michael King
The Possession of Michael King is a 2014 American scene-thriller film written and directed by David Jung, in his directorial debut, from a story by himself and Tedi Sarafian. The film had its world premiere on August 14, 2014 in Singapore, and had a limited theatrical release in the United States on August 22 of the same year. It was released on video-on-demand on August 26, 2014. It stars Shane Johnson as a widowed atheist filmmaker who finds herself the target of evil forces.
Michael King was someone who never believed in God or the devil. After the sudden death of his wife, Michael decided to make his next movie about the search for the existence of the supernatural. But after a series of discoveries and experiments, Michael has been possessed by a demonic force, and it will not let Michael get away from it easily.
6 The Others
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The Others
The Others is an American thriller thriller film released in 2001. The film was directed by Alejandro Amenábar. The Others revolves around the character Grace Stewart (Nicole Kidman), a single mother living with two children in a mysterious house in the post-World War II era. The film also stars Fionnula Flanagan as the family's housekeeper.
The Others received positive reviews from experts, being considered one of the best horror films of 2001 and of the 2000s. It is also considered by many to be a work of art. was inspired by the 1898 novel The Turn of the Screw[3]. The film was also well received at the box office, when it grossed over $200 million worldwide. The Others were honored in many international award categories, mainly for Kidman and Flanagan's performances, and Amenábar's screenplay.
7 Bunshinsaba
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Bunshinsaba
Bunshinsaba is a 2004 South Korean horror film directed by Ahn Byeong-ki. In 2004, it was screened at the 8th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival. The film had its US premiere at the 2005 New York Korean Film Festival, and screened later that year at the 5th annual Screamfest Horror Film Festival.
The film is about a group of students who rent an abandoned house for many years that is cursed by a ghost in the house, which locals say that the properties in the house are haunted. To prove that, young people have started playing Ouija to discover the truth of the story...
8 Ringu
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Ringu
Ringu is a 1998 Japanese horror film directed by Hideo Nakata, based on the 1991 novel by Koji Suzuki. It stars Nanako Matsushima, Miki Nakatani, and Hiroyuki Sanada, and follows a reporter racing to investigate the mystery behind a cursed tape that kills viewers seven days after viewing it. It was titled The Ring (stylized as ring) in English in Japan and released as Ringu in North America. Ringu and its sequel Spiral were released in Japan at the same time. Upon its release, Ringu was a huge success at the Japanese box office and was critically acclaimed. It inspired numerous follow-ups within the franchise, popularized J-horror internationally, and sparked a trend of Western remakes, beginning with the 2002 American film The Ring.
The film is about a videotape that was accidentally recorded in the Izu region, Japan. Anyone who watches the tape will die within a week of viewing the tape. The first victims of the tape were four schoolgirls, including Tomoko, Asakawa's niece. While investigating Tomoko's death, she accidentally gets caught in the tape's curse, taking the lives of her son and ex-husband. The determination not to let their son die has led the two to work day and night to find the culprit of the mysterious videotape while the lives of all three.
9 The Conjuring 2
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The Conjuring 2
The Conjuring 2 is a 2016 American supernatural horror film directed by James Wan. This is the second installment of the 2013 film, The Conjuring, with Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga reprising their roles as ghost-hunting detectives Ed and Lorraine Warren. The film follows them to England to help the Hodgson family when they are attacked by a series of haunted phenomena known later as the Enfield Poltergeist at their home in the year 2000. 1977. Creative film based on real notes and documents. The Conjuring 2 was released in the US in 2016. The film was critically acclaimed and was a huge commercial success.
The context of The Conjuring 2 takes place in a house in the county of Enfield, England in the late 70s. Here, a single mother lives with her 4 children. The daughter in the family accidentally brought the Ouija board home and tried to call a certain spirit. Things turned scary when the evil spirit took over her soul.
10 The Exorcist
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The Exorcist
The Exorcist is a 1973 American supernatural horror film. The film is directed by William Friedkin and is an adaptation of William Peter Blatty's 1971 novel of the same name. The plot of the film was inspired by a 1949 exorcism case by Roland Doe, when it was about a girl who faced a demonic possession at the age of 12 and her mother regained her child. in despair, thanks to the intervention of two pastors.
The film stars Linda Blair, Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Jason Miller, Lee J. Cobb and Mercedes McCambridge. This is one of a number of horror series themed "demon-possessed" released between the late 1960s and mid-1970s, the most prominent of which is Rosemary's Baby. 1968) and The Omen (1976).
