Starring Ethan Hawke, Juliet Rylance, Clare Foley and Michael Hall D'Addario. Written by C. Robert Cargill and Scott Derrickson. Directed by Scott Derrickson.
Haunted house genre is so trite in its horror parent, I wonder if there is room for something fresh in this lane. A happy family is lured into a house with unreasonably low closing price and then finds themselves chased around by folks from beyond. Think of all the haunted house movies and I am sure you'll be able to place them all in the aforementioned typecast.
In that sense, Sinister is no different. Yes, the whole beginning and the reason to move into a new house is atypical and very specific to the lead character's motif but still it boils down to nothing unique.
However, before it is too late, I must add Sinister is a decent film. It wins in the field of spookiness and for most of us, that's what counts in a horror film. If it can scare you, it's good. For these people, Sinister is a must watch!
Ellison Oswalt, a crime writer who gained unprecedented fame after his first book "Kentucky Blood", moves into a house with "dark" history in an effort to write the next big thing. Of course, the wife and the kids have had their share of undesired locations but little do they know this time they are on top of a homicidal scene. From this point on, Sinister trudges down a rather known path but thanks to its creative back story, the film weaves in some really spooky moments. And that's where it wins.
There is a constant feeling of horrifying claustrophobia as we don't see much of the outside world other than in the grainy 8 mm film reels which Oswalt mysteriously found in the attic If it was intentional, it is a cunning attempt at horror genre. On one hand, we have a haunted house revealing its macabre and on the other hand, we have these reels with sinister endings as our only gateway to the outside world. As film progresses and Oswalt tries to cope with the supernatural, the world seems to be closing in on us, choking us with horror.
I believe because Sinister is so sinister at its core that we, the audience, can't absorb it at one point as we are left horrified, scared and sick. And to hide that, we shrug away the film as implausible.
Haunted house genre is so trite in its horror parent, I wonder if there is room for something fresh in this lane. A happy family is lured into a house with unreasonably low closing price and then finds themselves chased around by folks from beyond. Think of all the haunted house movies and I am sure you'll be able to place them all in the aforementioned typecast.In that sense, Sinister is no different. Yes, the whole beginning and the reason to move into a new house is atypical and very specific to the lead character's motif but still it boils down to nothing unique.
However, before it is too late, I must add Sinister is a decent film. It wins in the field of spookiness and for most of us, that's what counts in a horror film. If it can scare you, it's good. For these people, Sinister is a must watch!
Ellison Oswalt, a crime writer who gained unprecedented fame after his first book "Kentucky Blood", moves into a house with "dark" history in an effort to write the next big thing. Of course, the wife and the kids have had their share of undesired locations but little do they know this time they are on top of a homicidal scene. From this point on, Sinister trudges down a rather known path but thanks to its creative back story, the film weaves in some really spooky moments. And that's where it wins.
I believe because Sinister is so sinister at its core that we, the audience, can't absorb it at one point as we are left horrified, scared and sick. And to hide that, we shrug away the film as implausible.
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