It’s not often you hear people begging for a prequel to a critically panned movie based on a Hasbro board game. But in 2016, Mike Flanagan (the mind behind The Haunting of Hill House ) did the impossible: he turned a generic franchise into a legitimate horror standout with . A New Game in 1967

Set decades before the first film, the story follows Alice Zander ( Elizabeth Reaser ), a widowed mother running a "spiritual medium" scam out of her home. To spice up her act, she introduces a Ouija board—accidentally opening a door to the house's malevolent history. Unlike the original, this film thrives on:

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