Ouija Hosts

If you like the Paranormal Activity movies, you will probably enjoy this. Personally, I think they're a snooze-fest. Boring, with a capital BORE.

The movie follows a group of paranormal "investigators" looking for ghosts in an abandoned mansion in England. It's about as boring as you would expect that activity to be. And... just like the "Paranormal Activity" movies, the only "interesting" bits - if you can call anything about this movie "interesting" - happens in the last five to ten minutes. I swear, the director / writer must have seen "Paranormal Activity" and said.. "oh, yeah? Here.. hold my beer."

The actors where.. meh. Jenny is the only one who I think could MAYBE make it as an actress, but Sara... Good Lord, that woman's voice is annoying!

Sure, I had never heard about this 2021 horror movie titled "Ouija Hosts". But I still opted to sit down and watch it, since it was a horror movie that I hadn't already seen. And yeah, the movies with the word 'Ouija' in its title are usually shoddy movies hardly worth the time of day, yet I still opted to give director Steven M. Smith's 2021 movie the benefit of the doubt.

However, writers Tom Jolliffe and Steven M. Smith put together a script and storyline that was dull, boring and mundane. The movie was essentially just a bunch of people sitting around a laughably hipster Ouija board, asking questions while strange bumps sounded in the vicinity around them. Yeah, you're not in for anything grand, should you opt to sit down and watch "Ouija Hosts".

Needles to say that I wasn't familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list here. Well, aside from Louisa Warren, as I have seen more than my fair share of low budget questionable horror movies.

Visually then you're not in for anything at all here, unless you consider hand-held, wobbly camera work as being interesting. And the movie doesn't have a speck of special effects in it either to spruce it up.

If you are a horror fan, do yourself a favor and skip on director Steven M. Smith's "Ouija Hosts", because it just simply isn't worth the time, money or effort, take it from someone who suffered through the ordeal, so you don't have to.

My rating of "Ouija Hosts" lands on a two out of ten stars.

Okay guys, so hear me out. This isn't the worst Steven m smith film out there. I believe that this is 2nd place in his list along with Ghosts of Bordet Rectory being the best one. He obviously teams up with J Taveenor and Louisa Warren yet again in another cheap horror movie where all of the budget went towards probably the location and the scary movie poster. Ouija Hosts doesn't have much to offer however there are plenty of terrible Steve M Smith films out there that it kinda redeems yourself into watching it. I wouldn't recommend it but I'll give credit where credit is due. It's not badly made.

This movie starts off slow then puts on the brakes to slow down even further. Nothing happens, ever. I don't really know how this is a horror. I mean the nothing is annoying, it's some "paranormal" investigator saying over and over "Are there any spirits here?" And, "I'm sorry I invaded your space." Meaningless drivel that just slowed the thing down to a crawl. Better to miss this one. Now IMDb has gone insane and requires 600 words for review to be.posted so I am writing my complaint about the ridiculous minimum word count. It is stupid but I expect nothing less from the assh0ole oligarch that owns this site.

So I've watched an awful lot of the recent glut of cheap British horror movies. They range from fun and relatively entertaining (Think the Asylum but with English accents) to dire in every way. Unfortunately Ouija Hosts is very much into the dire category.

The set up of ghost hunters in a haunted house for a TV show has been done to death but this was bad even for that sub genre.

The location is totally not scary and the use of light, direction and script are terrible.

A lot of it feels unscripted and as if the actors are making up their lines as they go along.

The narrator is annoying and detracts from any distant hope of atmosphere.

I noticed one reviewer picked Chelsea Greenwood out for specific criticism which I thought was a bit unfair as the other actors were way worse. I thought she looked invested in the character unlike the others who seem to be messing about and as far as her delivery her facial expressions and mannerisms were good and possibly her delivery seemed delayed because of her Yorkshire accent.

But in all honesty I couldn't recommend this movie to anyone for any reason (Sorry Chelsea) you'd do better watching a chair or shutting your head repeatedly in a door.

• 1 star for making this film in the first place

+ 1 star because I love Chelsea Greenwood's accent.