Spirits near I call to you is anyone
with me
today that doesn't make sense if you
move it to no then somebody has to be
there hey that is just
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rude hello and internet welcome to film
Theory the show that bends over
backwards to deliver you scarily good
theories hello and when I say backwards
I mean really bends over backwards now
with Halloween fast approaching we're
about to experience one of Falls
spookiest Trends and no I don't mean
people dressing up as clowns trying to
lure children into the woods but while
we're on the subject this trend is
freaking me out sorry all you
trick-or-treaters but any of you who
show up in my house this Halloween
dressed as clowns might get yourself
reflexed kicked in the chest consider
this your first and last warning anyway
the trend ey was referring to was the
Halloween Horror cash grab as every year
movie studios rush in to make cheap
scary movie sequels that will get them a
quick buck and often in their Collective
race to the bottom their greenlighting
projects that no one liked in the first
place case in point the topic for today
Ouija a movie series rocking a solid 7%
fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes I think
it's safe to say that the movie going
audience wasn't clamoring for a sequel
on this one and can you blame him it's a
movie based on a board game and we saw
how well that worked out with Battleship
a few years ago except here I hesitate
to even give it the credit of calling it
a game since it requires someone to move
that little plastic piece as though it's
possessed by a ghost and then lie about
it to the rest of the group which means
if you have a bunch of honest friends
like good old mtat here and no one moves
the darn thing you just have to wait
there and nothing happens here's a
better name for it sit there and look
like an idiot there's your truth and
advertising slap that one onto the Box
sorry the rage pad is strong with this
one I'm just upset that I spent $20 on a
piece of cardboard and a crappy plastic
triangle so why am I talking about these
movies when I could be out there pumpkin
picking or sampling some exotic Butters
well as I watch the trailers for this
year's new installment Ouija origin of
evil something clicked in my little
brainy head this lame modern horror
franchise may actually be connected to
one of the greatest classic horror
franchises of all time The Exorcist in
fact rean the main character from The
Exorcist you know the one the vomit
spewing conduit for Satanic demons yeah
her she may be the one to blame for all
of the events of the Ouija series Ouija
Ouija I I pronounce it Ouiji as in
creepy Luigi I just double check the
Cambridge English dictionary and it is
in fact Ouija in the US and in the UK
boom knowledge dropped okay maybe not in
the UK only in the US but you know what
it's one of those things GIF GIF let's
all just get along and pronounce GIF GIF
GIF GIF how about we pronounce it piece
of [ __ ] board how about that you heard
me right I'm saying Ouiji 1 and 2 may
just be the unofficial sequels to The
Exorcist how cool would that be well get
ready cuz we're going to have ourselves
a devilishly good time today and be
warned because of the subject material
there are some graphic images ahead now
before we begin here's what you need to
know about both movies in less than 60
seconds start the clock now The Exorcist
starts at Washington DC where a tween
girl is living with her mother who
happens to be a famous actress the girl
rean starts behaving strangely
convulsing peeing in front of company
and using very creative profanity your
mother sucks after a battery of medical
tests Regan's mom suggests that she is
possessed by the devil and seeks an
exorcism two priests are assigned to the
task after rean redecorates the walls of
it the priests are separated the old one
has a heart attack and dies the young
one says to the demon come at me bro the
demon does indeed possessing the young
priest who then jumps out the window to
his death supposedly ridding the world
of the demon Regan is back to normal and
life goes on or does it it does at least
until the sequel Ouija starts out with
two young girls playing with a Ouija
board and talking about the dos and
don'ts of playing years later one of
them commits suicide so the other tries
to contact her using the exact same
board except dun dun dun they actually
contact the spirit of another dead girl
named Doris who starts to terrorize the
group of friends and forced them to kill
themselves they eventually burn Doris's
old mummified body and the Ouija board
and they live happily ever after with
their PTSD or do they they do probably
until the sequel woo y'all caught up
good now a bunch of you are still
probably saying that I'm crazy for
thinking that there's some kind of
connection between these two movies so
let's just start off with the one that
sparked my interest in this Theory to
begin with the Ouija board now obviously
the Ouija board is important in the
movie named after it it serves as a
conduit through which Spirits enter the
real world but now let's look at the
Exorcist sure everybody remembers the
big moments like the head spin and lines
like the power of Christ compels you but
I bet most of you have forgotten how
rean herself got possessed in the first
place early in the movie rean tells her
mother that she's found a Ouija board in
the closet that she plays with it with
her invisible friend Captain howdy okay
time out if someone introduces
themselves to you as Captain howdy
you're at best a child molester and at
worst a demon so just walk away this has
been a film Theory Public Service
Announcement now before she found this
Ouija board Gan was fine but after she
starts communing with Captain howdy
everything goes to hell hell get it
jokes are great now all you st theorists
might be thinking that correlation is in
causation that we can't just say because
weird stuff started happening after rean
started playing with the Ouija board
that the Ouija board is to blame but
let's turn back to Ouija the movie which
sets forth three rules for safe Spirit
contact one never play in a graveyard to
always say goodbye oh God it's so dumb
that's the reason you have a 7% rating
on rot Tomatoes Ouija and three never
play alone it's rule number three that's
important here in the first Ouija movie
Debbie uses the board by herself and
it's what causes Doris to start haunting
her and it's the same thing with rean
and Captain howdy she plays alone and
she gets possessed and mind you these
aren't some general rules from the board
game they're made up in the movie
universe so there's really no reason why
the boards would behave so similarly in
both movies unless this happened to be a
shared Universe now there's another
problem here that some of you are
probably thinking in Ouija the teenagers
aren't possessed they summon the spirit
of Doris the angry ghost of an evil girl
that's nothing like rean and The
Exorcist who actually gets possessed by
the devil so how on Earth could I say
that these boards function in the same
way well let's clear some things up
first rean isn't actually possessed by
the devil it's a common misconception
and you can't be faulted for making it
when rean says things like and I am the
devil but in The Exorcist to the heretic
it's actually revealed that rean was
possessed by Pazuzu in ancient
Babylonian wind demon if that seems
completely random it's actually not
remember in the first movie that we see
an archaeological dig site in Iraq where
father Marin the soon Tobe puke
receptacle discovers a figurine of a
demon well that demon is Pazuzu and if
you look carefully there's actually a
good shot of rean reaching out to Pazuzu
during the exorcism scene at the end of
the movie look at that smart film making
guys now obviously I'm not going to
argue that Doris the little girl from
Ouija is an ancient Middle Eastern demon
but I am going to point out that the new
movie Ouija origin of evil is a prequel
about Doris's origin story we can see in
the trailers that she didn't start off
as just some angry ghost it appears that
she uses a Ouija board alone back in the
late 1960s and gets herself possessed by
you guessed it a demon spirit that comes
out of the board so in both Exorcist and
the Ouija prequel the boards function
the same way you play alone you get
yourself possessed by a demon but whip
out those rosary beads loyal theorists
because not only did the boards act the
same way but the demons do too it's time
to do some Demon alysis similarity
number one they're targets Pazuzu and LU
oua demon not only come into the world
the same way but they also use similar
people as conduits both Doris and rean
are pre-teen girls without a father
figure in fact in the trailer for Ouija
origin of evil Doris looks like she's
trying to contact what we assume is her
dead father through the board before she
gets herself throat punched by the
leather daddy [ __ ] demon Regan's father
meanwhile isn't dead but he does abroad
in Italy and doesn't bother to talk to
his daughter even on her own birthday in
both cases we've got young women without
a strong male presence in their lives
which makes it much easier for them to
be seduced and corrupted by a male
spiritual presence similarity number two
the eyes perhaps the thing that most
shocked audiences about The Exorcist was
the battery of grotesque physical
Transformations rean undergoes
throughout the movie you probably
remember her cracked skin and janky
teeth but on a number of occasions
Regan's eyes roll into the back of her
head and look all white we gives us way
fewer visual Clues to tell us that
people are possessed but we do see the
group's eyes turn that same milky white
when they're attacked by Doris but
that's just what your eyes do when
you're possessed by a demon object those
of you who are suddenly experts on
demonic possession well here's the thing
I'd be willing to overlook this if white
eyes were a universally accepted movie
Trope like how you have to walk slowly
away from something that you blow up but
it's not The Exorcism of Emily Rose
Dexter's sister's eyes just dilate and
turn black when they're possessed and
Sister Mary Eunice's eyes turn read in
season 2 of American Horror Story the
white eyes shared by rean the kids in
Ouija and Doris in the origin story
isn't necessarily The Smoking Gun but it
is another prominent connection of these
sorts of possessions and we're still not
done just look at similarity number
three the Demon's Powers probably the
best way to draw parallels between the
demons we see in The Exorcist and Ouija
is by comparing how they act and what
they're able to do and the overlap here
is actually surprising both demons have
the unusual ability to enable their
pessi to speak in tongues when pizu
possesses is Regan she's suddenly able
to speak several different languages
from Latin to French to Italian fair
enough but then in the trailer for Ouija
origin of evil it's revealed that after
Doris starts acting strangely she writes
a number of letters in Polish huh
interesting shared connection there
seems like both of our demons happen to
be Linguistics majors and then there's
the subject of levitation some of the
earliest hij Jinks the demon causes in
The Exorcist include making Regan's bed
levitate off the ground which by the end
of the movie has graduated to making
rean herself levitate into the air
similarly Doris's victims in Ouija
levitate cleanly off the ground and even
Doris herself seems to be able to defy
gravity as evidenced by this clip that
we get of the new movie in which Doris
crawls her way up the side of the
staircase with her eyes in that glossy
white possessed look a scene mind you
that is very reminiscent of The
exorcists Nightmare inducing body
contorting spider walk down the stairs
and speaking of demons compelling their
conduits to move down the stairs in
creepy ways how about that classic
Exorcist flexibility well in the opening
of the Ouija orig of Evil trailer we see
Doris being bent backwards in a position
that would allow her to do something
like the spider walk in fact both
Regan's demon and Doris's demons seem to
be able to defy human anatomy contorting
the body in ways that should be breaking
the little girl's bones and joints be it
the owl head spin in The Exorcist or
Doris's jaw drop so there are a lot of
similarities here yes some are shared in
large part with possessions in general
but a lot of this like the languages and
the back bends are specific to this
movie franchise but still at the
beginning of all this I claim that rean
may have started the events of Ouija and
for all the similar possession rules and
demonic powers in order to really
connect Doris and rean we need to Simply
connect them via time and place and
believe it or not we can do that too
although the events of The Exorcist are
never given a specific date we know it
occurs sometime after 1954 since Ran's
mother Chris is set to St in a movie
about the Vietnam War protests and 1954
is the year that that war started but we
also know that the Exorcist takes place
before 1971 one since that's the year
The Exorcist book which prompted the
movie was written based on the early
release promotional materials we know
that the events of Ouija origin of evil
are set in the 1960s the late 1960s so
the timing of these two movies lines up
but what about the location well The
Exorcist famously takes place in the
Georgetown area of Washington DC whereas
Ouija origin of evil is taking place in
Los Angeles seems like we're kind of out
of luck right but at the end of The
Exorcist we see rean and her mother
packing up to move out of Washington DC
eager to get away from the horrors they
just went through and where are they
moving to I bet you can guess it's Los
Angeles Regan's mother is an actress
after all that puts ran and all her
stuff including one possessed Ouija
board back in La the same city origin of
evil will soon happen in fact the
trailer for the new Ouija shows that
Doris goes to a Catholic School in LA
and if you were Regan's mom with a
daughter who just was possessed by a
spawn of Satan wouldn't you put rean in
a Catholic School the second you got
back to LA yes in other words all the
details line up for the same Ouija board
that possessed rean in Georgetown to be
present in Los Angeles and ready to
possess Doris in Los Angeles just a few
years later let me put it this way when
it comes to the Ouija movies rean and
The Exorcist might just be the true
origin of evil but hey that's just a
theory a film Theory and
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