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We Want to Hear Your Spooky Ouija Board Stories!

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Do you dare play with the board?

The big Halloween horror movie this year is Universal’s board game-based prequel Ouija: Origin of Evil (read our review), which promises to be the rare follow-up film that’s actually better than its predecessor. But we’re not here to talk about movies today. Rather, we’re here to gather around the virtual campfire and invite you to tell spooky stories of your own.

There’s a good chance that at some point in your life you’ve gotten together with friends and played around with a Ouija Board – either a creepy homemade one or, more than likely, one of Hasbro’s mass-produced games that you can pick up at your local Toys R Us. Nothing creepy about a toy you can buy from the toy store, right? Or is there…?

Listen. I’m not sure I actually believe that Ouija Boards can allow one to make contact with spirits on the other side, but at the same time, I’ve gotta be honest: Ouija Boards freak me right the hell out. I own one, but I keep it locked away in the basement because the mere sight of the thing just spooks me. Only a small handful of times throughout my life have I busted it out and messed around with it, and though nothing bad has ever happened as a result, I’m always left feeling a little uneasy as I attempt to drift off to sleep.

I always feel like I’ve invited something in… so I guess I do kind of believe, huh?

My most recent Ouija Board experience was back in 2010, shortly after my wife and I moved into a new house. We had some friends over, and once the alcohol started flowing, we decided to break out the ole “mystifying oracle.” We attempted to make contact with a girl from our high school who had passed away some years before, and though the planchette never moved an inch, the weather took a turn for the worse almost at the exact moment we asked if she was present in the room; the wind became rather violent, and rain began falling.

As soon as we stopped, so did the wind. And so did the rain.

Coincidence? Sure. Probably. But it damn sure freaked us all out.

Maybe there is something to the whole thing…

Do you have any scary Ouija stories? We’d love to hear them!

Writer in the horror community since 2008. Editor in Chief of Bloody Disgusting. Owns Eli Roth's prop corpse from Piranha 3D. Has four awesome cats. Still plays with toys.

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Stephen King, James Wan & Osgood Perkins Horror Movie ‘The Monkey’ Wraps Filming; Meet the Cast

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Three horror powerhouses are coming together for The Monkey, an adaptation of the Stephen King story that’s being produced by James Wan and directed by Osgood Perkins.

The Monkey is a short horror story that appeared in Skeleton Crew, a 1985 collection that also featured The Mist, The Jaunt, The Raft, Survivor Type, The Reach, and more.

Deadline reports today that filming on The Monkey has wrapped, and the website has revealed the full cast for the upcoming horror movie. Read on for everything you need to know.

Theo James (The White Lotus) stars alongside Tatiana Maslany (SheHulkAttorney at Law), Elijah Wood (Maniac), Christian Convery (Sweet Tooth), Colin O’Brien (Wonka), Rohan Campbell (Halloween Ends) and Sarah Levy (Schitt’s Creek).

Osgood Perkins (The Blackcoat’s Daughter, Gretel & Hansel, the upcoming Longlegs) wrote the screenplay for the feature film adaptation and he also directed the upcoming movie.

“In The Monkey, when twin brothers Hal and Bill discover their father’s old monkey toy in the attic, a series of gruesome deaths starts occurring all around them. The brothers decide to throw the monkey away and move on with their lives, growing apart over the years.

“But when the mysterious deaths begin again, the brothers must reunite to find a way to destroy the monkey for good before it takes the lives of everyone close to them.”

James Wan is producing with Atomic Monster partner Michael Clear (M3GAN), and C2 Motion Picture Group’s Jason Cloth (Joker) and Dave Caplan (Babylon).

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Elijah Wood in ‘Maniac’

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