Crew
Director/Screenplay/Creature Designs – John Migliore, Producer – Angela Migliore, Music – Mike Trebilcock, Special Effects – Survival Zombie FX. Production Company – Survival Zombie Films.
Cast
John Migliore (Anthony Struggle), Deborah Jayne Reilly Smith (Cressida), Kylie Gough (Illyana), Simon Wheeldon (Caldura), Lena Montecalvo (Terra), Jay Macaulay (Terra), Emmalene Pruden (Bikini Betty), Somer Bettles (Bikini Britney), Thea Munster (Bikini Beatrice)
Plot
Anthony Struggle has gone to Hell in his attempts to banish the Ouija Shark. He travels through Hell where he comes up against the demon Caldura who controls the ouija shark. Anthony’s wife Cressida goes to the medium Illyana in an attempt to bring him back. Illyana’s spells drag Anthony back into the physical world and he and Cressida are happily reunited. However, this also serves to bring Caldura through too where he lets the ouija shark against the world.
Ouija Shark (2020) was an entry in the Gonzo Killer Shark Film from Canadian director Brett Kelly. For the sequel Ouija Shark 2, Brett Kelly has dropped out and the directing/writing chair has been inherited by John Migliore, the actor who played Steph Goodwin’s father in the original. The sequel features repeat performances from Migliore, Kylie Gough as the gypsy fortune teller and Simon Wheeldon playing a different role, although the quartet of girls who were at the centre of the first film are gone, while Steph Goodwin’s heroine has been replaced by Migliore’s own daughter Sabrina in a single scene.
There’s quite a WTF element to Ouija Shark 2. These include scenes of John Migliore’s journey through Hell where for some reason he encounters a group of people in ape suits also wearing goggles. The demon Caldura is accompanied by a group of dancing girls outfitted in bikinis, who he is wont to have killed and resurrected at various intervals. Caldura and the girls even get a song and dance number.
Unlike Ouija Shark, which planted its feet squarely in the Gonzo Killer Shark film, Ouija Shark 2 heads in the direction of more of the nonsensical mystic mumbo jumbo that took over at the end of the first film and involves much of John Migliore wandering through Hell searching for meaning, along with people conjuring Doctor Strange-like magical force shields and animated blasts.
The latter third of the show has Migliore bought back to the world of the living, which also opens the way for Calgura and the ouija shark to emerge too whereupon they go amok with the sort of wake of destruction usually associated with Japanese Monster Movies. You are not sure whether to regard these scenes as comedy or not, although by the time that Migliore and associates decide to fight the menace by conjuring up a tarot alligator (!) it is clear you are meant to.
There are marginally better shark effects than the first film but most of the effects are pitiful. At one point the Ouija Shark and Tarot Gator are represented as silhouettes fighting beyond mocked-up buildings, while the shark seems to sprout a pair of arms to swing the tarot gator around by its tail. Lording over all of this, Simon Wheeldon’s Caldura stands randomly moving the planchette around the ouija board to control the shark, while even flying in on top of the board at one point.
Trailer here