Hmmm, well it doesn't surprise me they are digging up old ideas since this is what movies do nowadays rather than trying anything new. Horror movies in particular seem to try and be derivative and simply re-do what others have already gotten away with to avoid negative attention and publicity, especially seeing as real horror movies make people uncomfortable. The last real bit of creativity we saw with horror was the advent of the whole "Torture Porn" genera which sort of peaked with Saw and it's imitators, and then sort of died out except for occasional low-budget, low-quality revivals. That was arguably real horror, which you could tell, by how many casuals recoiled from it due to being made uncomfortable and using arguments that "it wasn't scary, just bloody", while in many cases also making it clear that it sort of got to them.
I decided to pass on "Ouija" unless I heard spectacular things about it, because I figured the idea was pretty played out after the "Witchboard" movies (I think there were 3, as it was fairly popular for a while) and of course a few other key uses of the Ouija board in horror movies. Indeed I was half expecting it to basically be a remake of an older movie from when the idea was still fairly fresh.
In my mind a "Ouija Board" doesn't work well as the focus or driving force of a movie, but can make a convenient way for an unknown entity to communicate as a small part of a movie during a horror film, it being a genera trapping, rather than something that should properly be a movie's entire focus.
Years like this I sort of mourn the "Saw" franchise, but they had already beaten it into the ground and I suppose it was time for them to stop. I say that mainly because it had become sort of a yearly tradition to go see one, and at least it would have a couple of entertaining (though often ridiculous) kill scenes.
Those who haven't seen it yet might want to check out "The Collection" on Netflix, not really scary, but I'll give it points for that the beginning nightclub scene which was entertainingly over the top, the rest of the movie was just 'okay'. A decent Halloween "funhouse" type movie that will inspire several (and almost definatly at least one) "WTF did I just watch" moments.