Blum let Flanagan work on the type of horror film he wanted which was a period piece that dealt with a family dynamic. This appealed to Flanagan who stated in an interview that he has an "allergy to sequels". īlum wanted to make a film that was significantly different from the original. Although the film’s critical reception was less than stellar, Blum was impressed by Flanagan’s contributions and, upon the first film’s box-office success, spoke with Flanagan about a potential follow-up. While in post-production on the first installment, producer Jason Blum brought Flanagan in to direct ten days of reshoots. Annalise Basso as Paulina "Lina" Zander.In a post-credits scene, 47 years later in 2014, a now elderly and still institutionalized Lina receives a visit from someone claiming to be her niece.
Afterwards, Doris then attacks Lina's doctor. Lina uses the makeshift Ouija to summon Doris' spirit, which succeeds in summoning an evil spirit in Doris’ form. As Lina is left in her room, she tears up the carpet and creates a Ouija board on the wooden floor with her blood. She tells her doctor that she knows she will never be alone again. Lina is later on committed in a mental hospital for the suspected murder of her mother and sister. Alice then sees Roger and Doris happily together watching them and then dies, leaving Lina devastated over her mother's death. Alice tells Lina that it was not her fault but her own, for getting the board, and also tells Lina that she loves her. The spirits unpossess Lina, who is shocked to see what she did. The spirits then possess Lina and stabs Alice with a knife. Lina explains to Alice that she had to sew her mouth in order to stop the voices. The ghost Doris wakes up and Roger appears and Doris is happily reunited with her father. She fights off the embodied evil spirits and sews her mouth shut but kills Doris in the process. Recalling an earlier moment when her doll's mouth was stitched by her father's spirit "to shut out the voices", Lina realizes she must sew Doris' mouth shut to quiet the spirits' voices and stop the evil. Alice is captured, while Roger's spirit carries an unconscious Lina to her bed. He attacks Alice and Lina, but momentarily seizes clarity, only to be killed by Doris. Father Tom finds the secret room where the experiments were conducted, and is possessed by the spirits. When they find the body, Father Tom, Alice, and Lina burn the Ouija board in the furnace. Meanwhile, Doris kills Lina's new boyfriend Mikey when he comes to visit. These spirits knew answers that only Roger would know because they have been watching the family since the day they moved in. He reveals that the pages are entries written by a Polish immigrant named Marcus, who was taken captive during World War II by a sadistic doctor who conducted experiments on him and other captives inside the house's basement. Instead, for every question he asked, she read his thoughts and repeated the answers he was thinking in his mind. Although the session appears to be successful, Father Tom later explains to Alice and Lina that Doris did not contact Gloria. Troubled, Father Tom visits them for a Ouija session under the pretense of contacting his dead wife Gloria. Lina, who is becoming disturbed by the changes in her sister, finds papers written by Doris in fluent Polish, a language she does not know, and brings them to Father Tom Hogan, her School Principal, to translate. Soon, Doris becomes fully possessed by the shadowy spirit. When the board answers a question only Roger would know the answer to, a thrilled Alice begins believing that they are in contact with her dead husband. When she gives the money to her mother, the family has a Ouija session, believing they can contact Roger.
The spirit leads her to a secret compartment behind the basement wall containing a pouch of cash. Doris contacts the board for help, believing she is communicating with her dead father.
While trying out the board, she unknowingly contacts a spirit named Marcus that begins to possess Doris.Īlice receives a notice that the bank intends to foreclose on their home. At Lina's casual suggestion, Alice incorporates a Ouija board into her readings. The family is still reeling over the recent death of Roger, Alice's husband and the kids' father. In 1967 Los Angeles, a young widow named Alice Zander works out of her suburban home as a spiritual medium, accompanied by her daughters, 15-year-old Paulina "Lina" and 9-year-old Doris.