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Based on the Hasbro board game of the same name, 2014’s Ouija tells the story of a group of teenagers that accidentally establish a connection with a malignant entity while trying to contact their dead friend. With a contrived plot and numerous rules about how to strike up conversations with the spirits, the movie has a particularly confusing ending, made all the more puzzling by its purposefully dubious final shot. Was Laine (Olivia Cooke) able to see any spirits through the planchette? Was the connection to the otherworld finally severed? What was Doris’ (Sierra Hawkins) role in all this? The film has just hit Netflix, so if you've watched Ouija for the first time and aren’t quite sure of what to make of its ending, or if you have been obsessing about it ever since 2014, here’s a breakdown of what happens in the movie and in that befuddling final scene.

Chicago – Out of respect for the filmmakers and actors, I don’t walk out on films. I hold true to that even when I know in the first 10 minutes the film’s not for me. Perhaps the second act could surprise me. Maybe the whole film is a flop but it redeems itself with shock and awe in the last 5 minutes.

Rating: 1.0/5.0

But let’s be honest: As much as you can tell yourself you’ll walk into “Ouija” with an open mind, it’s impossible to have high hopes about this latest “horror” film in a tiresome string of formulaic attempts. You’re not expecting Oscar-caliber performances and that’s why these kinds of films can get away with casting no one you’ve ever heard of.

This time, Olivia Cooke takes center stage. You might remember her if you saw this year’s sci-fi flop “The Signal” with Laurence Fishburne.

Chicago – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 40 pairs of advance-screening movie passes up for grabs to the new horror film “Ouija” from Jason Blum (producer of the “Paranormal Activity,” “Insidious” and “The Purge” films) and the producer of “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”!

“Ouija,” which opens on Oct. 24, 2014 and is rated “PG-13,” stars Olivia Cooke, Daren Kagasoff, Ana Coto, Douglas Smith, Shelley Hennig, Sierra Heuermann and Bianca Santos from writer and director Stiles White and writer Juliet Snowden.

To win your free “Ouija” passes courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just get interactive with our social media widget below. That’s it! This screening is on Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014 at 7 p.m. in downtown Chicago. The more social actions you complete, the more points you score and the higher yours odds of winning! Completing these social actions only increases your odds of winning; this doesn’t intensify your competition!

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