Enlisting a so-called "master of horror" can't hurt when you're re-imagining a cult classic from the 1980s. In this case, the master is Chuck Russell, director of A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) and the hit Jim Carrey comedyThe Mask (1994). You won't see any laugh-out-loud moments in his new movie Witchboard, however. Technically, this is a modern-day reboot of the 1986 horror-thriller of the same name, as well as the fourth in a series of sequels. Like Witchboard 2 and Witchboard III, Russell's horror remake is a standalone feature, chronicling roughly the same events as the original. Centering on an ancient artifact whose users will face catastrophic results, the latest Witchboard offers some juicy hard-R scares and an engaging character journey. But there's little els

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