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Like its characters crafting a planchette out of lipstick and a phone case, “Seance” mashes ideas together and hopes for the best.

He ventured into the occult—organizing séances and planchette sessions at home, or meeting his friends to meditate at a crematorium at night.

She seems to drift, like the planchette on a Ouija board.

But as a teenager — bored, lonely, with a vague taste for the occult — I read tarot cards and messed around with Ouija boards, mortified when the planchette would glide toward some crush’s name.

But although the portentous air isn’t entirely earned, still you keep reading, half-believing that dark forces are stirring, the way you might feel a planchette sliding across a Ouija board.