This ambitious horror film rejects graphic violence and instead spins a spooky tale of the supernatural. In it Linda Brewster (Tawny Kitaen) becomes obsessed with a Ouija board that has a direct line to the spirit of David, a friendly 10-year-old who died 30 years previously. Linda ignores
the rule never to use the board alone and gets tricked by the evil spirit of a savage axe-murderer, who pretends to be David. Instead of simply depicting a series of deaths of cardboard cutouts, WITCHBOARD takes the high road and actually tries to develop relatively complex relationships between
the main characters. While the movie suffers at times from some clumsy scripting, wea...
Released:
1987
Rated:
R
Length:
98 mins