Review of Sinister (2012) by Norman B — 22 Sep 2013
Found footage helps a true-crime novelist realize how and why a family was murdered in his new home, though his discoveries put his entire family in the path of a supernatural entity. Scott Derrickson did his best to make viewers believe that Ethan Hawke's vanity and greed would lead him to put his family in a bad situation along with his drinking problem, his obsessive myopia, and his possible hallucinations, there are shades of Jack Torrance in The Shining.
As usual with ghost stories or stories of the occult the fear dissipates a little once the mythology comes into focus, and they've tossed in a boy with night terrors just to crank it up a little more plus add some plot twist here and there.
The forecast for the atmosphere was definitely eerie and Sinister moves with a full throttle intensity and residual creepiness even though there were some clichés of course, but this still managed to be one of the best horror films I've seen in the last two years.
This review of Sinister (2012) was written by Norman B on 22 Sep 2013.
Sinister has generally received positive reviews.
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