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One night at a party, Brandon Sinclair uses his Ouija board with Linda Brewster to contact the spirit of David, who he communicated with numerous times. However, her boyfriend Jim Morar insults David, provoking him to slash the tires of Brandon's car. The next day, Linda uses the board that Brandon accidentally left behind to contact David, who informs her where her lost engagement ring is. At the construction site where Jim works, his friend Lloyd is killed by fallen drywall. When Jim is questioned by Lieutenant Dewhurst at Lloyd's funeral, Linda contacts David about the accident, but the spirit says that he didn't cause it.

Slowly, Linda falls under progressive entrapment, where the spirit begins to terrorize the user for them to be weak enough to possess. Brandon brings over psychic medium Zarabeth Crawford to contact David through a séance, and exorcise him from the building if necessary. After David leaves, Zarabeth remains suspicious and wants to research the occurrence. Upon returning home, her throat is slashed before she is thrown out of a window, landing on a sundial. Brandon hears about her death the next morning, and suspects that David killed her.

When Brandon leaves for more information, Jim hears Linda screaming and witnesses her being thrown against the wall by the spirit, rendering her unconscious. He then contacts an ambulance to bring her to the hospital. During this time, Jim joins with Brandon to Big Bear to conduct research on David, who died at the lake. There, they use another board and learn that another spirit named Carlos Malfeitor has been terrorizing Linda all along. After Jim is knocked unconscious by fallen barrels, Malfeitor kills Brandon with a hatchet. Jim regains consciousness and grieves over Brandon's body. Later, he reads that Malfeitor was an notorious axe murderer shot by police in his home in 1930—the same home he and Linda reside in.

Meanwhile, Linda is released from the hospital, and is attacked by Malfeitor. The next morning, Jim finds the home in disarray, and a possessed Linda attacks him with a fire axe. Dewhurst enters and accuses Jim of the murders, but she strikes him with a fire poker. Jim takes his revolver, and the possessed Linda tells him that he is the "portal", taunting him into committing suicide. However, he instead shoots the board many times, before being pushed out of a window and landing on a car. After the events, Jim and a normalized Linda resume their lives, marrying each other at a church. While cleaning, the home landlady named Mrs. Moses finds the wrecked board, and wonders if it still works. Shortly after the board and the planchette are thrown into a box, the planchette moves to the word "yes" by itself.

Conception and writing

Tenney was writing the script while a student at the University of Southern California. Inspired to write a horror film based on a Ouija board, he began to research the concept of "progression entrapment," an element that figures briefly in The Exorcist (1973), in which an individual becomes progressively "entrapped" by a spirit. As some elements of the script were based on incidents he had heard of while researching the experiences close friends and others had with Ouija boards, he believed the viewers would "resonate" from this being based in the facts, despite it being fictitious. Though Tenney never believed in the board himself, he admitted the board was "creepy."

One of the central themes of the film was the "bromance" of Jim and Brandon, whose friendship was compromised in a love triangle with the character of Linda. Tenney viewed the film about the board, who he sees as a character, forcing Jim to reflect on his relationships with Linda and Brandon, the latter whom he had a falling out with. Once he knew this was the story, it was easy for him to work it around with the stories he had researched about. In writing the characters, he drew from his own background to make them "three-dimensional", and thought it would be interesting to see Jim's disestablished friendship with Brandon come back together. The character of Jim was based on Tenney himself, and wrote him to be a construction worker from when he, his brother Dennis Michael Tenney, and their friend James. W Quinn worked in construction before moving to Los Angeles. He stated in interviews that despite it being a horror film, he sought to create a character-driven film.

When Tenney's friend, Rolan Carol, had to drop out of university due to financial issues, he got a job at a commodities' firm where the owner, Walter Josten, was getting bored of commodities. Rolan mentioned Tenney's script to Josten, who had an interest in filmmaking. Tenney and his friend, Gerald Geoffray, pitched the film to Josten, who was impressed by the idea, and agreed to help finance the project. Tenney dropped out of his program at the University of Southern California, four units shy of earning his Master's degree, to begin shooting the film.

Casting

Todd Allen was cast as Jim, as Tenney felt he was the only one that was true to the role. Initially, Allen was worried that he lost the role when he saw Tenney laughing while sitting in the auditioning room, but he made him laugh because it reminded him of the way he talked and acted. He received the benefit of returning with the filmmakers to read the actresses that auditioned for the role of Linda, which Tawny Kitaen had read when he wasn't there.

Casting producer Rebecca Boss and Tenney found Kitaen ideal for the part as everyone the latter knew at his office, which were all males, noticed her the most. She had flown to New York prior to shooting so Tenney called up her agent about making a deal, and she flew back to arrive on set when filming began. When she met Allen, they both became very intimate with their relationship. Tenney saw that she brought an "appeal" that affected everyone at the time, which was something he initially didn't see.

Photographer J.P. Luebsen was hired to play Carlos Malfeitor, the villain, when he met Tenney through a friend at an independence day party. Whenever he was on set, Kitaen mentioned to him about being completely distant so that she can build herself up to be terrified of him. Other cast members include Quinn, Kenny Rhodes, and Kathleen Wilhoite. Although Wilhoite was the first to audition for Sarah "Zarabeth" Crawford, she initially didn't respond to Tenney about the part, but she later accepted it when they re-met at a place. Rhodes stated that Witchboard was the only film in his career where he didn't recall auditioning. The costumer gave him a bandanna to "toughen up" his role, which he kept as he was a Bruce Springsteen fan.

Filming

Principal photography was shot as Ouija in 1985, at the Higgins-Verbeck-Hirsch Mansion in Windsor Square, Los Angeles and Big Bear Valley in San Francisco, California. When the filmmakers had discovered that Parker Brothers didn't own the title, their attorney told them that they couldn't use the title, say "Ouija", or use a Parker Brothers board in the film. The Errors and Omissions carrier didn't approve of the filmmakers having already shot with the board, and they had to put up a $50 thousand bond to prevent any potential litigation. Though there was no lawsuit, Josten stated that this should've been cleared before they started filming. They received the insurance to change the title to Witchboard and were allowed to pay the bond, as well as to integrate the early board footage with the new board footage as shown when Jim and Brandon are at Big Bear. However, the filmmakers were divided about the title change, with many preferring Ouija while other felt that Witchboard was a "cooler" title.

Shooting the shower scene was difficult for Tawny as he didn't trust Tenney nor the camera crew to shoot the scene, but she assured trust in cinematographer Roy H. Wagner to do it when she saw his wedding ring. The crew a couple of effects when the spirit turns on hot blazing water in the shower that Linda was trapped including numbers of breakaway glassed shower doors, and a fog machine to represent the hot water's moisture. Kitaen became more comfortable shooting the scene when the set was cleared to only the director and second-camera loader assistant, but this was a big uproar as all of the men were temporarily kicked off-set.

On set, there were numerous running gags that Wagner was mostly involved in. In one, Kitaen devastatingly believed on-set that her poodle was accidentally run over by the prop's truck, but she was relieved to find that the dog was safe and it was only a gag prop with hair similar to her dog that was laid on the road. At the time, they did another gag where since Kitaen was dating O.J. Simpson at the time and he visited her on the set from time-to-time, and would call the production office under a pseudo name to speak with her. They had other gags where they rocked Kitaen's trailer back and forth, flipped the outhouses upside down with the actors inside, and locking the crew in rooms where they couldn't get out to the set on time.

They also, however, had their fair share of some eerie occurrences on set. Some of the crew, mostly those that came in earlier, had significant problems inside the 637 Lucerne Blvd house such as the crew bumping into things that weren't there, as well as things that have moved that no one else around could've done during that time frame. Wagner especially felt a strong presence at the staircase where someone was walking behind him, and numerous occurrences where the cast and crew heard whispering and talking.

The last scene shot was of Jim being pushed out of the window, which was done in one take at a distant park, using a builted replica of the window. Since there was a crane arm behind Allen, he couldn't flail his arms around and instead had to block it out with his shoulders.

Effects

The filmmakers hired Tassilo Baur to handle the special-effects for Witchboard. The nightmare sequence of Linda being decapitated by Malfeitor was shot with a stand-in ducking their head, and a Styrofoam head connected t