Ouija (PG-13)
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This came out in 2014, but I didn't see it until 2025. It was pretty heavily panned by critics, but I still wanted to check it out (at least partly because I was more interested in seeing the next movie, a prequel, but I thought I should watch this first). And... I thought it was okay. Not particularly good, but not really bad, either. Most critics will say it wasn't really scary, but there was some imagery that I thought was roughly as scary as the imagery in movies that critics like, so I dunno.

Anyway, it begins with two young girls, Debbie and Laine, playing with a Ouija board. They're momentarily interrupted by Laine's little sister, Sarah. Nothing much of importance happens in this scene, as far as I recall. Then the movie flashes forward to the present, when the girls are teenagers. Debbie has recently found an old Ouija board (I'm not sure if it was the same one they played with as kids, but I don't think so). And she plays with it by herself. Laine (Olivia Cooke) comes over and wants Debbie to go out with her, but Debbie refuses. She says she'll see Laine in the morning, but that night, she hangs herself.

Laine is convinced it wasn't a suicide, and wants to ask Debbie what really happened. So she uses the Ouija board, along with her boyfriend Trevor, her friend Isabelle, Sarah, and Debbie's boyfriend, Pete. They contact someone they think is Debbie, though it later turns out it wasn't her. Strange things start happening, and Laine's friends start dying, one by one. And I don't want to spoil any details of Laine's investigation into the reasons all this is happening, and how to stop it. But... like I said, I thought the movie was okay. Oh, but I do want to say that Wikipedia's description of the plot ends with something I did not see when I watched the movie, so that's weird.

Followed by a prequel, "Ouija: Origin of Evil"