Hasbro Courts Spiritual Disaster With an Exorcist Ouija Board

Hasbro has conscionable dropped its 2024 Halloween catalogue, highlighting immoderate of the seasonally spooky titles present disposable successful its scope of games. Tucked betwixt specified eerie delights arsenic a Clue peculiar edition themed astir What We Do successful the Shadows (the cardinal enigma is: who stole Laszlo’s witch-skin hat?) and a Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas-specific Yahtzee is possibly the astir sinister yet must-have committee crippled ever, for fearfulness fans astatine least: Ouija: The Exorcist.

Yes, you work that right: an honest-to-Satan Ouija committee paying licensed homage to 1973’s The Exorcist, a movie astir a small kid who becomes possessed by a demon aft the deceptively affable “Captain Howdy” responds to her connected a tone board. This merchandise is taking its spot alongside Hasbro’s scope of Ouija boards; there’s the classical version, a Wednesday edition, and 2 different caller titles: a “Salem Edition” that taps into witchy history, and a Beetlejuice variation (for times erstwhile calling retired his sanction 3 times is excessively easy, presumably). But if you’re successful the marketplace for a tie-in Ouija board, the prime is abundantly clear!

“The 1973 classical movie comes to beingness with this detailed, glow-in-the-dark collectors’ piece,” Hasbro’s selling transcript reads. “Grab a friend, airs your questions, and find retired what contented the different broadside has successful store utilizing the customized planchette and committee with elements from the film. Relive the fearfulness masterpiece with the boardgame… if you dare! If things spell wrong, there’s ever The Exorcist.”

Technically, you’ll request two exorcists to get the occupation done right, but if you tin flight being possessed Ouija: The Exorcist sounds similar conscionable the close crippled to prime up to play the adjacent clip you’re ticker William Friedkin’s unsettling masterpiece—and portion you’re awaiting Mike Flanagan’s purportedly terrifying remake too. (Maybe you tin inquire the spirits to assistance purge your memories of The Exorcist: Believer portion you’re astatine it?)

Here’s a look astatine the committee and planchette:

© Hasbro/Warner Bros.

And different featuring the box, depicting Regan MacNeil levitating portion nether the power of Pazuzu.

© Hasbro/Warner Bros.

Best of all, however, is Ouija: The Exorcist‘s glow-in-the-dark reveal, truthful genuinely startling the backmost of the container kindly lets you cognize what you’re successful for:

© Hasbro/Warner Bros.

“Keep away, the sow is mine!” and different legendary demonic taunts travel to light, successful a perfectly chosen shadiness of pea-soup green! Slow clap, Hasbro. Halloween volition ne'er beryllium the same, and neither volition our souls.

If you’re arsenic anxious to adhd Ouija: The Exorcist to your postulation arsenic we are, you tin snag it from the Op now for $30.

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