We’ve got another weird mix of old and new this time around. We’ll begin with the new “Forgive Us All,” then discuss “Insidious Chapter 3,” “Godzilla vs. Biollante” and then both the original “Witchboard” (1986) and the brand-new remake from 2025.
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Mainstream Films:
2025 Forgive Us All
Directed by: Jordana Stott
Written by: Jordana Stott, Lance Giles, Alex Makauskas
Stars: Lily Sullivan, Callan Mulvey, Richard Roxburgh
Run Time: 1 Hour, 33 Minutes
Trailer:
Spoiler-Free Judgment Zone
In a beautiful location in New Zealand, we see a slice of a zombie apocalypse. And we quickly see that living jerks are just as dangerous as the infected in the aftermath. A woman in mourning finds a wounded traveler being pursued, and we gradually piece together what life and politics are like now. Rather than a non-stop action take, this is more of a story that takes its time, focusing on the people trying to survive. We give it a moderate thumbs up.
Spoilery Synopsis
A woman cries and screams next to a fresh grave. As she carries her pistol back to the house, we see that a struggle took place that resulted in a shooting. She then looks in on her sleeping child, who is also covered in blood and barely breathing. Although it looks like she’s dying, Maddie sits up and looks possessed. Maddie leaps, and we hear a gunshot. Credits roll.
Two years later, Rory still wakes up with nightmares over that whole situation. She listens to a radio report that sounds bleak. She passes Otto on the way out, and it’s clear that they live way out in the wilderness.
We cut to a rider leaving Camp 13, zooming right past the sign that says, “GMA Quarantine Processing.” Two other horseback riders are right behind him, in pursuit. The man’s partner gets caught instead. They torture him for the first rider’s location, but he dies rather than give it up.
Back with Rory, who still grieves about Maddie, she’s considering killing herself, but doesn’t. She finds the horse, who leads her to the unconscious rider. He looks like he’s dying, but she takes his bag, slings him over the saddle, and sets off leading the horse.
Meanwhile, Otto finds a bunch of bones that belonged to their neighbor, Henry. The body appears to be mostly eaten. He sees three men, GMA agents, on horseback and hides, but there’s also something screaming in the woods nearby.
Rory takes the wounded man home and looks him over before locking him inside the barn. She opens his package and finds medicine inside that says “Take within 72 hours of infection.” When Otto returns, she shows him the still-unconscious stranger. Otto’s not happy. Also there’s a storm coming, “They’ll be out in force tonight.” At dinner, they argue about life in general.
That night, she reminisces about Maddie and her drawing of a dragonfly. Her father was off helping the sick people, but Rory doesn’t know much about the virus. Suddenly, Connor, the father, opens the door, and he’s clearly not right. He jumps at them and– Rory wakes up.
She goes out to the barn to check on her prisoner, and he’s up and around now. They hear a “Howler” outside and have a quick scuffle. He’s Noah, and she patches up his wounds. Noah broke into the GMA base and stole the antidote for his own sick son. It’s still dark, so if he leaves now, the Howlers will get him. Still, his time to use the antidote on his son is running out.
Not far away, the three trackers, Logan, Scout, and Brooks, find Rory’s house and wait to see what happens. Rory and Otto argue about what to do about the sick boy whose time is running out. As they bicker, the GMA agents ride up.
Rory and Noah take the horse as Otto stays behind to stall the agents. There’s a gunfight, and Brooks dies, as does Otto. Logan is injured, but he’ll live. Scout tells Logan she’s not going with him; she doesn’t want to be a part of this anymore, so Logan goes on alone after Noah and Rory.
Rory continues on alone as Noah and Logan brawl without their horses or guns. After much back and forth, Noah shoots Logan, which attracts a group of Howlers which finishes him off as well.
Rory continues through the dark forest, now at night, and all the Howlers are out at night. She hides and runs from a group of the nasty infected people. In one of the scuffles, she gets bitten. After that, the infected begin to ignore her; she’s one of them now.
In the morning, Rory finally comes to Noah’s house. Did she get there in time to save Noah’s son before the infection is too far gone? She leaves the cure with the old woman who’s watching Noah’s son and walks on back to the river.
Rory visualizes Maddie as she puts her pistol to her head and pulls the trigger before the disease gets her.
Brian’s Commentary
It’s a just-barely sci-fi post-zombie-apocalyptic story set in the always-beautiful New Zealand wilderness. Everything is filmed with either a brown or green filter, so everything has a very “Western” feel to it.
The acting is fine, the situation is interesting enough, but the plot is very generic. It’s more of a good-guys-and-bad-guys movie than really leaning into the zombies, which are just sort of there in the background a few times until the ending.
It looks great, has good acting, but it was awfully slow moving.
Kevin’s Commentary
Wow, the scenery is nice in this one. Lily Sullivan, as Rory, kept reminding me of a young Geena Davis - which is a fine thing. She’s very good in the role, as is the rest of the cast.
I liked the direction this one took, with the zombie story a real threat, but not the entire focus. There are plenty of terrifying moments while kind of being on the slow side following the trials of the living. It’s not a happy movie, but it’s quite good.
2015 Insidious: Chapter 3
Directed by: Leigh Whannell
Written by: Leigh Whannell
Stars: Dermot Mulroney, Stefanie Scott, Angus Sampson
Run Time: 1 Hour, 37 Minutes
Trailer:
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Spoiler-Free Judgment Zone
It’s a prequel to the haunting of the Lambert family, showing how Elise got into the business along with Specs and Tucker. So pretend that they all look younger than they did in the previous movies that take place after this. But age discrepancies aside, it’s well made and works perfectly with the other films. If you’re an Insidious fan, you’ll probably like this one.
Spoilery Synopsis
This takes place a few years before the previous films.
Quinn goes to see Elise; she’s looking for a psychic. She wants to talk to her dead mother and has been trying to contact her on her own. After a bit of discussion, Elise is willing to help. She contacts the spirit world and senses something bad. She warns Quinn not to call on her mother. “If you call out to one of the dead, all of them can hear you.”
Quinn goes home, but she keeps talking to her dead mother. Her father works a lot and her brother Alex is weird. She goes to an audition that afternoon, and doesn’t go well. She whines to her friend Maggie. She sees another strange dead-looking person and then gets hit by a car.
Quinn dies on the operating table, but then they bring her back. While dead, she sees something scary. Three weeks later, Quinn talks to an old woman who speaks of the man who lives in the vents. “He up there right now, standing in your room.” Quinn’s in two leg casts and a wheelchair, at least for a while.
Across town, Elise goes to bed. She dreams about Quinn. She considers opening up her padlocked reading room but doesn’t.
Quinn sees someone on her ceiling, and her father Sean investigates the weirdness. Quinn tells him about seeing Elise a month or so ago, and he warns her not to do that.
Elise calls Quinn’s mother on her own one night. She knows someone is bothering Quinn, and it’s not her mother. She sees it, and it’s definitely not a nice ghost. Meanwhile, Quinn has a run-in with the same entity, and she soon realizes it’s not her mother. Around the same time, the old woman next door dies.
Quinn has a nightmare about the various creatures and dead people. Sean finds her in the empty apartment upstairs.
Sean goes to see Elise, and they talk about dead spouses. She talks about going to “The Dark Place” looking for her dead husband, but some evil woman followed her back to the real world. She hasn’t been able to do a reading since then. Still, she tries, and quickly goes into a trance. She sees all sorts of weird things and is attacked by the woman in black, her nemesis.
Sean calls in Specs and Tucker, a couple of ghost-chasers from YouTube. Elise talks to Carl, an old friend, about her spirit problem.
Quinn beats up Sean, Specs, and Tucker, and then breaks the casts off her legs. Elise shows up to get rid of the parasite inside Quinn. The group does a seance so that she can go to a different plane, “The Further,” and help Quinn.
Elise confronts the ghosts, and this time, she beats up the woman in black and defeats her. She runs into her dead husband, and he tempts her to join him in the world of the dead. She recognizes that he would never suggest she kill herself and that he’s actually the bad ghost in disguise. As she steals Quinn away from “The Man Who Can’t Breathe,” there’s an earthquake in the real world. Elise calls on Lily, Quinn’s dead mother, to help.
Quinn returns to the real world, and gets to talk to her mother through Elise.
Later, Elise talks to Specs and Tucker about them never having really seen a ghost before. Maybe they could all go into business together? They’d have to wear shirts and ties.
Brian’s Commentary
This is a prequel to the first two films, and the character of Elise is the main thing that ties the films together. It’s got foggy corridors, lanterns, and weird creatures, so it fits in with the other films just fine.
It’s not my favorite series in general, but this is a solid entry if you liked the others.
Kevin’s Commentary
I recognize that the Insidious movies are well made, and they have a loyal fandom. They are not my cup of tea. But I’m in agreement with Brian, this one is consistent with the others and fits well with them. If you’ve enjoyed the previous films, which take place after this one, you’ll probably enjoy this one as well.
1989 Godzilla vs. Biollante
Directed by: Kazuko Omori, Koji Hashimoto, Kenjiro Ohmori
Written by: Shinichiro Kobayashi, Kazuki Omori
Stars: Kunihiko Mitamura, Yoshiko Tanaka, Masanobu Takashima
Run Time: 1 Hour, 44 Minutes
Trailer:
Spoiler-Free Judgment Zone
Who knew that Godzilla would be back? After he was trapped in a volcano in the last movie, years have passed, and a scientist has accidentally created a giant plant/animal hybrid monster. Surprising no one, they fight. The budget is bigger, the effects are a little better, and the story moves well. It’s a good entry in the series.
Spoilery Synopsis
Credits roll as we see clips from the previous film, “The Return of Godzilla” (1984). Afterward, scientists pick up some of Godzilla’s skin from the wreckage and take it to be examined. There’s suddenly a shootout between a group of soldiers and another group. The winning group is killed by a lone assassin, who takes the sample.
We see that man again on a boat heading to a biotechnology laboratory in an oil-producing country. They hope to splice the cells with a fast-growing grain to end world hunger. Suddenly, there’s an explosion and Erika, Dr. Shiragami’s daughter is killed.
Five years later, Shiragami has been working with ESP and roses. Miki may be able to communicate with plants. His group is being spied on by the Americans, who may be planning to steal their discoveries. Asuka and her boyfriend, Kirishima, go to the Godzilla Memorial Lounge to talk about his going to MIT to study.
Meanwhile, a volcano is threatening to erupt on an island nearby. All the children at a school have had the same dream, that Godzilla is coming back. Miki believes that Godzilla has awakened. Gondo is the man tasked with watching the island for Godzilla’s return, and he’s looking for job security.
The scientists have invented a bacteria that eats nuclear material for use if there was ever a nuclear accident. They think they might be able to use that against Godzilla. They need the Godzilla cells to create the final product. They go to Dr. Shiragami for help, and he turns them down because of his daughter’s death; he eventually changes his mind under the condition that he can use some of the Godzilla cells for his own side project.
Dr. Shiragami starts working with the cells. He also does something with the cells of the telepathic roses. He combines the two types of cells into something new. Kirishima warns that this thing could possibly evolve to be worse than Godzilla.
Meanwhile, the Super X-2 has been completed. It’s a new and improved version of the one in the previous film. It’s got a new kind of weapon that can reflect Godzilla’s heat ray.
The two Americans break into the lab and try to steal the plans for the anti-radiation bacteria, but then the newly designed creature kills them both.
The next morning, Shiragami tells Kirishima what he’s done and admits it might have been a mistake. A competing company, BioMajor, demands the bacteria or they’ll blow up the mountain that restrains Godzilla.
Suddenly, a monstrous thing with a rose on its head appears in the nearby lake. Kirishima, Shiragami, Asuka, and Miki go to see it. “That plant has a human spirit,” says Shiragami. Miki says dead-Erika’s spirit is in there.
The ransom switch at BioTech goes badly. Godzilla is released from the volcano, and the assassin from earlier gets the radiation-eating bacteria. The navy can’t do anything to stop Godzilla, so they launch the Super X-2.
Miki and Asuka report to Shiragami that they can’t detect any of Erika inside the new plant-monster. It knows Godzilla is coming, though, and heads in his direction.
The two monsters finally meet. There’s lots of staring and explosions as they fight. Biollante is eventually defeated and burns up in a fiery blaze. No, Shirigama says it can’t die, it’s immortal.
Godzilla, on the other hand, has used a lot of energy fighting Biollante and Super X-2, so it’s going to head toward a nuclear reactor to refuel. The military predicts the wrong target, leaving Osaka with no defenses.
Godzilla closes in on Osaka, but Miki concentrates with her plant-ESP. Will it work on Godzilla? They come face to face, but Miki faints. Gondo and Kirishima arrive in town and go to the Sarandia Oil Company, the people who stole the bacteria. They retrieve it far too easily. The head of Sarandia calls his assassin in to take out Shiragami.
Godzilla rampages through Osaka. Super X-2 arrives to fight, but the secret weapon is broken and won’t work. They unload everything they have, but it’s not enough; they crash. Gondo shoots bazookas full of the radiation-eating bacteria and makes wisecracks until Godzilla drops a building on him.
The bacteria isn’t working on Godzilla fast enough. It should have been lethal, but it’s not working. That might be due to Godzilla’s low body temperature. Major Kuroki thinks he knows of an experimental device that does something with thunder that they can use to raise Godzilla’s body temperature.
They use the TC weapon to make Godzilla heat up with generated lightning. The bacteria still isn’t working.
Miki runs outside and uses her ESP to make Biollante-dust rain down from the sky. The plant creature re-integrates and attacks Godzilla. Biollante is evolving and changing into a huge, tentacled thing. Lots of tentacles, more than Godzilla can deal with. He’s way bigger and tougher than Godzilla, and it’s looking bad for our favorite lizard.
Godzilla turns and heads back to the ocean, but falls down before he can get there. The bacteria has finally taken effect. Billante then turns back into glowing spores and goes up into the sky. We see dead-Erika’s face as he ascends. Dr. Shiragami is then shot in the back by the assassin. Kirishima takes off after him, but the baddie is finished off by the lightning machine.
Everyone watches as Godzilla gets back up; the ocean must have made his body temperature drop again. He marches back off to his home…
Brian’s Commentary
This one has moved on from the talky, suspense-filled previous episodes and is paced much more like an action movie. The pumped-up soundtrack makes this obvious in the opening scenes.
There is some early CGI graphics used for maps and diagrams, sometimes in 3D, which were probably really cool at the time. The monster and all the important stuff is still done with miniatures and men in suits, but the computer age was coming.
In a 2014 poll of Japanese fans, this was ranked the best of all the Godzilla movies. I don’t know if I’d go that far, but this one of the better ones.
Kevin’s Commentary
It kind of felt like the movie happened in the first hour. But then there was more. It had a bigger budget this time around, the biggest budget of a Godzilla movie up to this point, and it shows. It is still a guy in a big rubber suit, but they’ve come a long way since the 1950s. This one is pretty good.
1986 Witchboard
Directed by: Kevin Tenney
Written by: Kevin Tenney
Stars: Todd Allen, Tawny Kitaen, Stephen Nichols
Run Time: 1 Hour, 38 Minutes
Trailer:
Spoiler-Free Judgment Zone
The movie was made in the mid 1980s and looks like it, which is fun. While it does have a small body count, it’s pretty tame and dated for today’s audiences. It’s easy to see where the story is going, and it’s well made enough to still entertain. We wouldn’t call it a tremendous classic, but it’s worth checking out if you haven’t seen it already.
Spoilery Synopsis
As credits roll, people arrive at a big house for a party. It’s very… 80s. Jim watches Brandon and Roger argue over the existence of God. Lloyd and Mike show up, and they’re Jim’s underdressed friends. Linda consoles Jim over how nasty Brandon got. Meanwhile, Brandon explains the pronunciation of the word “Ouija.” Then he describes the process as if none of the many partygoers had ever seen one before.
Brandon talks Linda into trying the Ouija board. Brandon explains that this particular board is dominated by a little boy named David. Through the board, David answers a few questions but then gets upset by Jim mocking the process. Suddenly, Brandon’s tires on his car outside explode.
Later that night, as Linda and Jim have sex, the Ouija board in the living room sits there doing nothing, but it’s doing nothing ominously.
In the morning, Linda uses the board to try to contact David by herself. She’s just gotten a positive pregnancy test, and she wants David to enter her baby. David says no, because he doesn’t like Jim. Meanwhile, Jim and Lloyd talk at the construction site where Jim works until a bunch of material falls and kills Lloyd.
David tells Linda where to find her lost diamond ring: in the bathroom drain. Jim comes in and she tells him what happened. She actually found her ring where David said it would be.
At Lloyd’s funeral, Homicide department detective Dewhurst comes to Jim and Linda. He thinks Lloyd was murdered; could the killer have been aiming for Jim? When the couple argues later, she tells him that she’s pregnant.
Linda tells David that she’s giving the board back to Brandon today, and there’s nothing he can do about it. He soon sends her a sign that there is something he can do about it.
Brandon comes to talk to Jim about the Ouija board and David. Jim laughs, but Brandon takes it all very seriously. He explains that spirits will take advantage of her, and the board becomes very obsessive. Then the spirit starts to get mean and will eventually possess her. Jim just laughs. Brandon wants to call in a medium to exorcise the spirit. Brandon and Jim have a lot of history, and Jim doesn’t care about anything. Linda calls, and Jim decides to allow the medium into his house.
Zarabeth is weird, but she’s supposed to be the best medium in the region. The group decides to do a seance to talk to David. David says he’ll leave, and then a bunch of weird stuff happens in the room. Zarabeth says David chose to leave on his own.
Zarabeth tells Brandon that David seemed way too strong for a ten-year-old. After going home, Zarabeth dies a nasty death.
Brandon comes to Jim the next day and suggests that all the deaths are connected to David. Brandon thinks maybe David has been lying to them about his age and everything else. As Brandon leaves, Jim notices the detective outside watching the house.
Linda watches as David moves the Ouija’s planchette on his own and then throws her around the room. At the hospital, the doctor says Linda was never pregnant.
Brandon and Jim do research about David’s real life and death at the library, which soon sends them to the cemetery– at night. David’s parents both died just two weeks ago.
Brandon and Jim contact David through the board again, and this time, David says it’s not him. David says it’s “Evil” who has done the killings. It’s Malfeitor who’s been doing all this. “Malfeitor is here,” it says as barrels fall on the two men. That’s not so bad until a hatchet whacks Brandon in the head.
Jim researches Malfeitor, who was a major serial killer back in the ‘30s– in their house! Meanwhile, Linda gets stuck in the shower and has to break out. Then she sees Malfeitor, and he’s not so friendly anymore.
Jim comes home to find that Malfeitor has possessed Linda. They fight until Dewhurst comes in, gun drawn. He thinks Jim has been behind everything. The detective is almost immediately knocked out by Linda/Malfeitor, who says Jim is the portal, not Linda. They say the only way to close the portal is for Jim to shoot himself. Instead, Jim shoots the Ouija board just as it throws him out the window.
Later, we see Jim and Linda getting married. He’s in a neck brace. Back at the house, the landlady finds the Ouija board and wonders if it still works, even if it is full of holes…
Brian’s Commentary
It’s pretty formulaic, but it doesn’t get boring and the story moves along at a good pace. The acting isn’t bad, but not impressive either. This is one of those 80s films where all the young 20-somethings with perfect hair live in multimillion-dollar houses and drive sports cars while working in construction.
The whole existence of Detective Dewhurst seems unreasonable. Lloyd clearly died in an accident, so there’s no reason he would even be assigned as a case.
It’s very “80s” and seems pretty tame and dated today. There’s nothing at all wrong with it– it just feels too dated.
Kevin’s Commentary
Ooooo noooo, not progressive entrapment. Saying things like that gives an air of science to the process. This is set back in the days when you could still smoke in the hospital, it’s a very 80s kind of movie. I’d rate it above average for the era, it’s not great, but it’s quite good. Or good enough to do the job anyhow.
2025 Witchboard
Directed by: Chuck Russell
Written by: Greg McKay, Aaron Russell, Kevin Tenney
Stars: Madison Iseman, Aaron Dominguez, Mel Jarnson
Run Time: 1 Hour, 53 Minutes
Trailer:
Spoiler-Free Judgment Zone
It’s an updated remake of the 1986 film by the same name, with a pendulum board instead of a ouija board this time around. There is a bit too much reliance on digital effects that are pretty obvious. It does a decent job of updating things while keeping the core of the story from the first movie - there is more to it this time around.
Spoilery Synopsis
We open in France, 1693 with witches dancing around a bonfire in the woods. There are skulls and body parts hanging from trees. They have a man tied to a tree, and the chief sorceress orders one of her followers to cut off the man’s arm. Suddenly, men on horseback arrive and kill many of the witches. In the scuffle, the “witchboard” falls to the ground [Kevin said it’d also be good for darts]. Credits roll.
In the present, two men break into a museum to steal the board. They fight and one guy shoots the other before being beaten with a tire iron. The shot man makes it outside, but he’s not doing well.
Elsewhere, Emily, Christian, and Richie forage for mushrooms, getting ready to open a new restaurant. She’s given up on the search for her parents. Emily hears someone crying in the woods and goes to look. All she finds is a cat, but it leads her to the board lying in the dirt. She doesn’t see the dead body of the thief nearby.
The other thief reports to his rich boss, who says the other thief has died. They don’t know where the board has wound up. The man’s three identical women cut the surviving thief’s throat.
Christian introduces his friends to his Creole menu. Richie invited Brooke, who is also Christian’s ex-girlfriend. Emily is engaged to Christian, but she’s lost her ring already. Brooke is an expert on antiquities, and she examines the antique probably-pagan pendulum board. The two of them try using it to answer a question, “Will our restaurant be a success?” Suddenly, a flaming bird shoots out of the fireplace; they should have gotten it cleaned.
The restaurant is nearing completion, and we see a whole bunch of dangerous-looking equipment in the kitchen. Meanwhile, at home, Emily plays around with the witchboard and finds that she was using the wrong kind of pendant with it last night. She hears on the news about the board being stolen from the museum just recently. She uses the board to point the way to her lost engagement ring. Downstairs, a weird chain of events leads to Richie losing his hand– to a cat! The lost hand is the least of his problems as he bleeds out in the kitchen.
At the funeral, Jesse shows up. He had her addicted to some drugs, but now Emily is clean. After, Christian notices that Emily has a new cat, the same one she saw in the woods and the same one who stole Richie’s hand.
That night, the witchboard activates on its own and gives Emily a nightmare about the witches’ coven back in the 1600s. The head witch, Naga Soth, is especially creepy.
Christian does some research, and he doesn’t want her to use that board anymore. He goes to talk to Vrooke, who knows an expert on the subject of Wiccanism.
Meanwhile, Emily gets a weird flashback while in the shower at home. She’s in the position of the witch as Pastor Grogan breaks down her door. He arrests her as a witch and has her exiled. She vows to get her revenge on Grogan. Emily wakes up in the shower after all that.
Brooke and Christian go to see Alexander, who is busy getting ready for the summer solstice. We see that Alexander is the man who hired the thieves in the first place. Solstice is a fertility festival, and Alexander says that Christian and Brooke will fit right in, and Christian gets a fantasy about that. Alexander tells the story of Naga Soth and her curse on the villagers. Alexander is a distant descendant of Pastor Grogan.
Christian goes home and finds that Emily knows he’s spent the afternoon with his ex. The board told her that Jesse will never bother her again, so she wants to celebrate with some sexy time.
We cut to Jesse, selling drugs on the roof of a building. We see that the cat is there as well as he prepares to inject a girl. He ends up going over the edge and falling to his rather excessive death.
The next day, Alexander and Brook come over to see the board. Christian and Emily want his help. Under hypnosis, he takes her back in time to Naga Soth in jail. Grogan brings her the board, wanting to know how to use it. The room starts to shake, both in the past and in the present. When Emily wakes up, we see, but the others don’t, that Naga Soth has possessed her in a kind of time-travel transfer. “Emily” then gives Alexander the witchboard, not needing it anymore.
In the past, Emily wakes up in jail, not understanding the old-time French that everyone else speaks. The witch in the next cell laughs at Soth’s successful escape.
In the present, evil Emily picks out some special mushrooms and takes them to Christian’s grand opening. It’s opening night, and a full house. The food critic arrives, as does Alexander and Brooke. At Alexander’s place, the board activates. We see those special mushrooms in almost every dish. Alexander knows what Emily/Naga Soth is up to and encourages her. He tells Brooke not to eat the mushrooms.
Everyone in the place starts laughing feeling odd. The main course comes out, and each one has a very sharp knife with it. The food critic sees a rotten hand on his plate. Everyone starts fighting and stabbing each other as Emily watches. Naga Soth takes her revenge on the locals, as promised. Alexander is quite entertained, but Brooke is horrified. He, along with Emily, makes their exit as Christian tries to follow. Christian gets picked up by Brooke, who had no idea what was going to happen.
Turns out, Brooke is on Alexander’s side and turns Christian over to them. Alexander then gives his villain speech; he wants to be Naga Soth’s master.
Meanwhile, in 17th century France, the real Emily is tied to a stake, about to be burned as a witch by Grogan and his crowd.
Alexander explains that Emily’s mother was a witch who was killed in a ritual. Emily has inherited the power, since she’s directly related to Naga Soth. Alexander then morphs into Grogan as Christian throws the witchboard into the fire. As the board burns, Naga Soth dissipates, leaving only Emily behind.
Alexander shoots Christian and fishes the board out of the fire. Emily wakes up and shoots Alexander. The police arrive and force Emily and Brooke out; Christian and Alexander have died.
Except Alexander might not really be dead…
Later, at the Vatican, Brooke has taken them the witchboard and sold it to them for a bag of diamonds. Naga Soth then comes for the cardinal who bought it.
Brian’s Commentary
The witchboard here is not a Ouija board, it looks more like an old dartboard. It’s still more or less the same idea; a haunted board that predicts the future. This one is obviously more modern and updated from the original, but it does keep some of the same aspects of the story.
It’s fine. The CGI isn’t very good, but everything else looks good and it moves along at a good pace. I liked it more than disliked it.
Kevin’s Commentary
Wicca, founded in the 1940s, is referred to as an ancient religion here. From the look of many of the shots, you’d think it was filmed with 3D in mind, but it was never released with that feature.
I thought it was pretty good, but too stretched out. Things happen, but a little too far apart. I did enjoy it more than the original.
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