A Deputy James Ransone helps him to find out where all of the murders caught on camera happened based on the years labelled, and he refers to college Professor Jonas Vincent D'Onofrio who has expertise on religion to decipher what the strange symbols mean, and he concludes that is to do with the Pagan deity named Bughuul who was known for eating children's souls, including killing a child and taking into a dark realm.
One night Ellis hears the projector running in the attic, and investigating he sees five children watching one of the films, all of them are the missing children from the murders, and then Bughuul the demon appears and Ellis falls causing an injury to his ankle. He and Tracy have an argument that he is spending too much time trying to write his new novel and that the family could be in danger or moving into the house of a murder scene, but eventually he realises she is right and the situation is becoming too dangerous, so he burns the projector and films and gets the family packed and ready to move back.
Having moved back into their old house Ellis is putting some boxes back, and he is shocked to see the projector and films intact in the box in the attic, but there is also a new film inside called Extended Endings, and when he watches it he sees all the murders again, but they follow with the missing child of the family coming on screen and revealing themselves as the murderers, before disappearing.
After getting some more insight from Professor Jonas about the symbols and the Bughuul legend he is visited by the Deputy, who he has been ignoring calls from, he gives him the information that all the murdered families lives in the same house the last murder took place, meaning Ellis has put him and his family in danger as the pattern may continue. Feeling lightheaded Ellis made himself a cup of coffee, and he notices a strange liquid left in it, and he sees a note from his daughter before passing out, and when he wakes up he and his family are tied up and gagged together just like the families before them.
Ashley walks in clutching the Super 8 film camera and an axe, she films as she murders her father, mother and brother, and paints the walls with images of unicorns, cats and dogs with their blood, and she watches the film back again where she also appears on screen, the other dead children appear but run away when Bugheel appears and takes Ashley into the film projection, and the last moment sees the box with the projector and films containing a film called House Painting '12 in the Oswalt attic.
Hawke gives a good performance as the man determined if not obsessed to get to the bottom of the crimes and write a successful book, the story is well paced and has a good amount of jumps and gripping moments, it is a good old fashioned scary movie, a terrific supernatural horror.
Very good! Desperate for another bestseller, struggling true-crime author Ellison Oswalt Ethan Hawke moves his family into a new home, conveniently forgetting to mention that it was the site of a gruesome multiple murder. A search of the supposedly empty attic turns up a box of home movies; as Ellison views the old reels of film, he learns of other murders that are connected to the case he is investigating, and following some strange supernatural occurrences, realises that, by taking up residence in this house, he has not only endangered his own life but those of his family as well.
Sinister drags all manner of tried and tested horror movie tricks out of the bag in an attempt at seriously scaring its audience, but all to no avail, the shadowy house, creepy children, loud noises and freaky faces rarely having the desired effect thanks to their sheer predictability.
Stick with it, though, and the film eventually gets under the skin, director Scott Derrickson very gradually building a sense of dread with an intriguing story that is clearly heading somewhere nasty; the real fun of Sinister is not in its cheap scare tactics, but in the carefully crafted foreboding atmosphere, and in trying to figure out the exact nature of the film's bizarre occurrences.
Sadly, the revelation of a child-eating demon named Bughool being responsible for the mysterious murders comes as a bit of a let down, and the final pay-off is nowhere near shocking as it should have been.
After all that has gone before, the previous murders seen in detail, the film wimps out on showing us what should have been the most brutal of them all. Sinister would have been infinitely more disturbing had the ultimate killings been depicted in nauseatingly graphic detail be honest, who doesn't enjoy a really gory axe murder or four?
Oh well, that's mainstream horror for you, I suppose. Oh dear God, this movie was such a horrible disappointment. The trailer looked interesting and the story sounded alright, but the movie itself was just far from scary and actually turned out to be somewhat of a joke.
Sure it was better than the recent crap that has flooded the horror genre, such as the "Paranormal Activity" series, but then again, it doesn't take much from a movie to do that. What made "Sinister" bearable to watch was the acting performances. Normally I am not much of a fan of Ethan Hawke, but he actually did a good job in this movie. And the movie does have some great moments where it builds up some suspense, just a shame that it never really climaxed into anything particularly worthwhile.
And also the cinematography in the movie made the movie bearable to suffer through. A lot of good camera work and great angles, but ultimately it was all struggling to best a horrible storyline and a lack of scares. The story does start out nice and does have a certain appeal, but it all takes a turn for the worse when you are let in on what is actually going on, and when you see the dead children in the house for the first time it all goes downhill fast.
I had expected "Sinister" to be a lot more than it turned out to be. I wasn't particularly spooked or thrilled at any given moment throughout the entire feature. There were some good moments, but they never really culminated into anything grand. And the story took a severe turn for the worse and ridiculous along the way.
If you enjoy a good scary movie, there are far better movies available out there. BandSAboutMovies 19 December For all the trash talking I do on modern horror, I tend to enjoy the films of Scott Derrickson. Strange and Deliver Us From Evil, his films have come from a unique place and have had surprises packed within them.
The two Sinister films - he only co-wrote the sequel - are darker and stranger than mainstream 's horror films have any right to be. Ellison Oswalt named for Harlan Ellison and Patton Oswalt; played by Ethan Hawke writes true crime and to get the material he needs for his next book, he's moved his family into the home where a family was lynched in their own backyard. He hopes that by living there, he'll discover the fate of the one family member who survived.
Inside the house, there's a box that contains a Super 8 projector and several home movies. They're actually snuff films of various families being wiped out as an unseen camerman records the death, always concentrating on a mysterious symbol.
These movies are the true heart of this film, shot on real Super 8 and appearing to come from another universe thanks to stark lighting and ambient music from black metal bands Ulver and Aghast, as well as Boards of Canada. In fact, the creature behind all of this throat slashing, drowing and burning is named Bughuul, a strange masked demon that also looks like he walked out of Helvete.
He's a Babylonian demon that coerces children to kill their families and then give their souls to him. After leaving the projector on one night leads to all of the missing children entering his house and Bughuul physically attacking him, Ellison decides to leave the house behind. He connects with occult expert Professor Jonas Vincent D'Onofrio , who tells him that the image of the demon is how it can possess children and enter our world. The real insight is that every murdered family had previously lived in the house where the last murder took place, and each new murder occurred shortly after the family moved from the crime scene into their new residence.
By moving, Ellison has doomed his family, as the projector and the films appear in his new house. Now, the missing children appear along with each murder on film, as Ellison's daughter Ashley methodically murders each of her family members with an axe before the demon lifts her into his arms and disappears, leaving behind a new film labelled "House Painting '12" so that the cycle of death can continue all over again.
This is but one film franchise where Ethan Hawke was killed in the first installment and I ended up liking the next movie much better. The other would be, of course, The Purge.
Coventry 8 January On one hand I had really high hopes that the film would be worthwhile, since I read several praising reviews from people, or in magazines and on websites, that I usually find very reliable and with tastes similar to mine. So what's the final verdict? Ellison Oswalt is a true-crime writer, but it's been more than a decade since he scored the huge bestseller hit "Kentucky Blood".
In his exaggeratedly fanatic search to surpass that success, he moves with his family into a house where — unbeknown to his wife and children — a horrible and still unsolved tragedy took place. But then our writer stumbles upon a box full of uncanny old-fashioned super-8 home videos in the attic and THEY undeniably form the eminence of "Sinister". Every self-respecting horror fanatic will consider these videos little masterpieces in their own right: shocking, morbid, raw and yet impossible to turn away from.
The videos depict the gruesome murder of the family in whose house Oswalt is now living with his family, but also the sick murders of several other once happy families all over the United States.
But still, like I assume every horror fan with me, I personally just kept looking forward to the each showing of the next super-8 video and didn't care all that much about the supernatural explanation connecting them. These little short films ought to be released separately on DVD, as far as I'm concerned, as every single one of them is a parental nightmare captured on film.
Loving family scenes degenerate into harrowing killings, now that is horror! IF only the script didn't revert to ancient mythologies to provide clarification and IF only the producers would have had the guts to make the murders explicit and brutal instead of suggestive, well than "Sinister" would have been the greatest genre hit of the new millennium. If only. Very good Gordon 22 August This is a very good psychological horror film.
It is very suspenseful, and literally draws you right in. Ellison Oswalt Eathan Hawke is a true-crime writer that moves his family to a new town in order to garner information for his new crime novel.
His previous books sold enough to have a following; but he is determined this new book will be the big ticket to fame and riches. His family doesn't realize than the house he picked out to buy is the scene of a horrific crime; where a family was found hanging from a tree in the backyard. The police don't welcome Ellison, because he has accused police departments of not being very bright in his books. In his investigations, he has found minor details that were overlooked and that info helped sell his real crime stories.
The writer finds a chest of old home movies in the attic; and when he starts watching them, he tries to solve the mystery behind the killings in his new home that also seem to be a link to other crimes. Each of those crimes involve missing children. The strange noises in the house and the fact his son is having stronger "night terrors", Ellison begins fearing for his family's life.
Some real tense and scary scenes. After moving himself and his family into a new house that was the scene of a horrendous crime, true-crime writer Ellison Oswalt Ethan Hawke finds a box of 8mm "snuff" films that suggest the murder he is currently researching is the work of a serial killer whose career dates some way back still further It is becoming the un-reviewable genre, horror that is, there are just too many splinters of horror to choose from and so many people to cater for.
There are many who stand up and proudly proclaim that they will watch any horror film and view it on its own terms, yet in this new millennium age that doesn't appear to be the case. I know I'm at fault, I hate torture porn and excessive grue type films, they just bore me, so can I review Hostel 9, Saw 27 and Wrong Turn 12 fairly? No, I don't think I can. I mean the human body can only be sliced up in so many different ways right? Vice Versa, can someone who loves Argento, Roth and the like, review fairly a boo-jump ghost story that caters for those who want to wet themselves when something jumps out of a cupboard?
I really don't think so, but I digress Behold, the best horror flick we've seen all year and our reasons why. What we love and hate about the current crop of horror flicks. The Script Subverts the Genre: A lot of what's teased in the TV spots is not really what's actually going in the film. And when is the last time you saw a scary flick without a hot young actress in the lead?
Although Juliet Rylance , who plays Hawke's wife, is easy on the eyes. Frankenweenie is alive: five ways Tim Burton brought his cool creation to life. Ethan Hawke Delivers His Best Performance in Years: Playing a guy who puts his family in the worst home ever to boost his career will never win any Father-of-the-Year awards.
Ellison's blind ambition to "break the story" makes him really reckless, which makes Hawke is mesmerizing. We want to see Ellison uncover the horrible truth of what really happened almost as much as we hope his own family gets as far away from him as possible. An Oscar-winners gets naked, Oprah's "powerful" tweet and more movie spoilers! The thumps from that attic can be deafening. Even more disturbing is the way the film's score by Christopher Young permeates each scene with an electronic, throbbing, skittery vibe.
Scarlett Johansson takes on Psycho 's shower scene. Scary can be defined by many things and ranges from person to person.
Some people are more scared by the drawn-out, gets-under-your-skin horror found in movies like Midsommar while others prefer the more in-your-face scares found in the likes of The Conjuring or Insidious. According to Forbes , a scientific study by broadbandchoices determined that no movie, however, is scarier than Sinister.
The study measured resting heart rates of 50 individuals of different ages while they watched over hours of scary movies. Sinister consistently taps into the ugliest, bleakest areas of life without ever lapsing into something that resembles, in any way, the cheesy or the campy. But if you want to see death at its most terrifying and evil at its most malicious — or hey, at its most sinister — then this film is definitely for you.
Like Like. Yes, definitely one of the scarier contemporary horror films. I thought the second was pretty good, too. Well said, I was also a fan of the second film. Join our FB horror group and share your work with us, Kalie! Like Liked by 1 person. That sounds great. Would you mind sending me a link to the page? I looked up Kubrick hall and could not find it. Here it is! I watched this movie when it first came out and thought it was decent scare but did not stick with me.
Fast forward to a Netflix impulsive rewatch and it is 10 times more horrifying. I guess its because Im older and analytic with what i watch. So this was the perfect to read after.
I wont be able to sleep. I want to follow on facebook too. So maybe Sinister will join the conjuring series and American Horror Story, both of which are on my current rewatch list. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. My journey through the depths of hitting rock bottom and how I faced my fears and have started to turn my life around.
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