Sinister
Occult horror starring Ethan Hawke as a true-crime novelist who discovers a box of mysterious, disturbing home movies that plunge his family into a nightmarish experience of supernatural terror. Also stars Law and Order veterans Vincent D’Onofrio and Fred Dalton Thompson. From the director of The Exorcism of Emily Rose.
2012Rating: MA15+, Strong horror themes and violence110 minsUSA
Horror
- Director:
- Scott Derrickson ('The Exorcism of Emily Rose', 'The Day the Earth Stood Still')
- Writer:
- Scott DerricksonC. Robert Cargill
- Cast:
- Ethan HawkeVincent D'OnofrioJames RansoneFred Dalton ThompsonClare FoleyVictoria Leigh
Sinister / Reviews
Total Film
An enjoyable, if boilerplate, boo-flick that maintains an enviable rate of scares per minute by throwing everything - demons, ghosts, snakes, loud noises - at the screen.
Full reviewTime Out
This so-so, occasionally effective horror film combines found-footage creepiness and haunted-house scares - but is stronger on mood than story.
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The Guardian
There isn't an ounce of ingenuity in the way the movie is concluded, but some generic expertise in the way it is put together.
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Roger Ebert
An undeniably scary movie, with performances adding enough human interest to give depth to the basic building blocks of horror.
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Los Angeles Times
As the best horror stories so often do, Sinister makes clear that we are our own boogeymen, the worst monsters of all.
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Hollywood Reporter
Enjoyably edgy fright flick meshes serial-killer and haunted house ingredients.
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Empire Magazine
Derrickson bounces back from his insipid redo of The Day The Earth Stood Still with an effective chiller that's got a skeleton or two in its closet.
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