Ouija Shark (2020) Review

Ouija Shark (2020) Review

A group of teenage girls summon an ancient man-eating shark after messing with a spirit board that washes up on the beach. An occult specialist must enter the shark’s realm to rid this world of the deadly spirit ghost once and for all.

With a running time of just seventy minutes you’d been forgiven for thinking that OUIJA SHARK would race by time-wise. Unfortunately it doesn’t. Instead this latest offering from Brett Kelly (credited here as Scott Patrick), the director of RAIDERS OF THE LOST SHARK (2015) and JURASSIC SHARK (2012), fast becomes a chore and a bore to sit through.

The film’s opening credits should give you a heads-up to the film’s continual random splurge of unconnected ideas – ancient art depicting sharks/sea creatures that has no real bearing on where the ensuing storyline goes – and things don’t exactly get much better from that point on. Nothing about OUIJA SHARK works on any level. It evidently wants to play the subject matter for laughs – and there’s certainly potential for that – but fails to elicit any, it’s not even bad enough to be unintentionally funny.

Right from the word go very little about OUIJA SHARK makes much sense. A young lady turns up at a public car park and upon vacating her vehicle makes a phone call. No one answers. She gets the hump and toddles off to a swimming area alone. I can understand her getting the hump if she’d been waiting an age but she hadn’t, she’d only just arrived herself. We soon find out that her friends are actually at a suburban house to that has a swimming pool in the back yard – so why would she have gone to the other location to start with when that never appeared to be the plan?

Anyhow if she hadn’t gone for a quick feet dip in freshwater then she wouldn’t have found a Ouija board floating around the shoreline and there would have been no story, not that there’s much story anyway. OUIJA SHARK plays like a badly put together montage of random scenes, most of which are redundant – such as the scene where one of the young ladies helps a neighbour clean his car.

Elsewhere we have a BBQ scene where no food is actually cooked or consumed (couldn’t they have at least tried to make it look such a simple scene play real?) and then there’s the ghost shark that’s just awful – check out the trailer link below and you’ll see what I mean. The story then cuts to a young couple who pick a spot to sunbath and enjoy a picnic. They pick the least likely spot you’d want to sunbath or picnic; I mean who sunbathes in the shade? The ghost shark appears and starts roaring like a lion/tiger, for some reason, and it was at this point that I just couldn’t stop myself from switching the film off.

At the time of watching this film, its rating on IMDB is an abysmal 1.3, and for once I concur with the site. There was so much potential to make this film zing in a daft zany B-movie kind-of-way, instead it’s badly put together and criminally dull. 

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