So much potential....

Rating: 2/10 (25 July 2015)

This movie had so much potential to be a really good crime, mystery film; but instead it tried to be so much more.
Pros: There are few, but still present. Ethan Hawke was pretty good. He played a believable role as someone dealing will the mess he found on the Super 8 tapes. The idea of finding the tapes and a historic serial killer had potential, except ruined by jump scares and horror.
Cons: The demon. For me, the demon ruined the entire movie and made me completely hate the entire film. Sinister had a good thing going with the mystery case of solving the Super 8 tape murders, except it wanted to fall into the horror genre. By turning an intriguing serial killer into a child-soul eating demon, completely ruined the entire thing.
If the movie stayed as a mystery instead of a horror it could've been much better, but instead it tried to be too much, thus ruining the entire project.