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Witchboard
Sign in to saveWitchboard is a 1986 American supernatural horror film written and directed by Kevin Tenney in his directorial debut, and starring Tawny Kitaen, Stephen Nichols, and Todd Allen. The plot centers on college student Linda Brewster who becomes entranced into using her friend's Ouija board alone after it was left behind at her party. She is subsequently terrorized and eventually possessed by the spirit of malevolent serial killer Carlos Malfeitor, who committed a series of axe murders in the 1930s.
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5.7Playing around with a Ouija board, a trio of friends succeeds in contacting the spirit of a young boy. Trouble begins when the evil spirit, Malfeitor, takes over one of their bodies.
Cast
- Todd Allen as Jim Morar
- Tawny Kitaen as Linda Brewster
- Stephen Nichols as Brandon Sinclair
- Kathleen Wilhoite as Zarabeth
- Burke Byrnes as Lt. Dewhurst
- James W. Quinn as Lloyd
Themes
- medium
- possession
- evil spirit
- psychic power
- ouija board
- ouija
- ax
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Ratings
IMDb
5.7/10
8,806 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
50%
Metacritic
45/100
- Year
- 1986
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Genres
- Horror, Mystery, Thriller
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 1 nomination total
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Key facts
- Film.name
- Witchboard
- Film.image
- Witchboard.jpg
- Film.caption
- Theatrical release poster
- Film.director
- Kevin Tenney
- Film.producer
- Gerald Geoffray
- Film.writer
- Kevin Tenney
- Film.music
- Dennis Michael Tenney
- Film.cinematography
- Roy H. Wagner
- Film.runtime
- 98 minutes
- Film.country
- United States
- Film.studio
- Paragon Arts International
- Film.distributor
- Cinema Group
- Film.language
- English
- Film.budget
- $1.5 million–2 million
- Film.gross
- $7.4 million
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 94
- FilmAffinity ID
- 940973
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- publication date
- 1986-01-01
- title
- Witchboard
- review score
- 50%
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Article
20 sectionsContents
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- Development
- Casting
- Filming
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- Contemporary
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- Sequels and remake
- See also
- References
- Sources
- External links
Witchboard is a 1986 American supernatural horror film written and directed by Kevin Tenney in his directorial debut, and starring Tawny Kitaen, Stephen Nichols, and Todd Allen. The plot centers on college student Linda Brewster who becomes entranced into using her friend's Ouija board alone after it was left behind at her party. She is subsequently terrorized and eventually possessed by the spirit of malevolent serial killer Carlos Malfeitor, who committed a series of axe murders in the 1930s.
Tenney wrote the screenplay while a student at the University of Southern California, inspired after attending a party in which a friend brought a Ouija board for partygoers to use. The film focuses on the notion of "progressive entrapment," the process by which a malevolent entity or demon takes control of a human being, a theme that was also touched on in The Exorcist (1973) after Regan MacNeil (Linda Blair) dabbles with a Ouija board. Filming took place in 1985 in Los Angeles, San Bernardino, and San Francisco.