☆ ☆
Sinister (2012) – S. Derrickson
Terrifyingly awful – the kind of film that
makes you feel you need a shower just for having watched it. Ethan Hawke is a true crime writer who moves
his family into a house where some shocking murders have taken place (they don’t
know). He finds a box of snuff films in
the attic. I should have turned it off
at that point. Soon, he’s haunted, the
house is haunted, and we have to keep seeing these snuff film images (shot on
Super 8), as he tries to figure out whether he is onto an elderly serial killer
or a Babylonian demon-worshipping cult. Potentially
abducted children play a key role. Hawke
is no match for the script that sees him walking around in the pitch black
house doing things that no sane man would do.
Sure, it is scary and tense but in a gruesome unpleasant way. Perhaps I have reached the bottom of the
barrel of supernatural horror films…
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