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Sinister


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The New Yorker
Sinister is a joyless ride, and its frights are too contrived to be surprising, yet somewhere, stashed in the attic, is a mu...
USA Today
Relies more on "gotcha" moments than storytelling.
The Boston Globe
As much as Sinister wants to tell a story, there isn't much of a story to be told.
New York Daily News
In its plot and even its title, the movie feels like a grab bag of every popular horror trope of the last 30 years.
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.
Washington Post
The hero of Sinister is almost unaccountably dumb. So, unfortunately, is the movie.
New York Post
C'mon, Ethan Hawke, you're better than this. Isn't there a Before Sunset sequel that needs your attention?
Entertainment Weekly
When a horror movie is damn bloody derivative, that's usually, in my book, a point against it. But Sinister, a mash-up of ha...
Telegraph
Ethan Hawke stars in this decent Horror film about a true-crime writer in need of inspiration
ReelViews
Someone finally figured out a way to make the concept of "found footage" interesting, and it's by incorporating it into the ...
Chicago Sun-Times
"Sinister" is a story made of darkness: mysterious loud bangs in the attic, distant moans from the dead
Hollywood Reporter
Enjoyably edgy fright flick meshes serial-killer and haunted house ingredients.
The Guardian
The title suggests something oblique, even subtle. But nothing could be further from the case.
Total Film
An enjoyable, if boilerplate, boo-flick that maintains an enviable rate of scares per minute by throwing everything demons,...
Telegraph
The wearisome 'found footage' horror film formula is wittily subverted in Sinister
Joblo
Probably my only issue with SINISTER is that I felt it was maybe a shade long at times, and possibly loosing a few minutes h...
Film Fracture
Sinister has several kinds of tension, and all of it makes for an exciting and nerve-racking experience.
Joblo
However, Bagul (or Mr. Boogie, as he's "affectionately" known) is the movie's real scene-stealer; his brief appearances are ...

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Partial Film Information

Director: Scott Derrickson
Writer: Scott Derrickson
Studio: Summit Entertainment
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, James Ransone

Release: October 5, 2012
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