A well made creepy horror movie

Rating: 8/10 (6 October 2012)

WARNING CONTAINS SPOILERS: Only read if you have seen the movie or if you don't really care about the film.
From the spooky makers of Paranormal Activity and Insidious comes Sinister.
This is the story of novelist Ellison Osborne and his family moving into a new home. While sorting and searching the house, Ellison discovers a box in the attic containing super 8 films which hold disturbing content which puts him and his family in danger of a paranormal entity. So yeah the plot is simple and easy and follow. As the movie goes on you'll soon be hooked into the story.
The acting in this movie I must say was well done. Ethan Hawke playing as the gritty novelist and parent was a good performance for a horror film, he's just a normal guy hoping to start again with the new book he will be writing and to keep his family happy. As he finds the films and watches them he becomes more disturbed, afraid and makes him frustrated. Once some of the weird events happen, you know why he continues the investigation of the murdered families because he isn't the stupid characters you get in horror movies who can just get the hell out of there as soon as possible. The rest of the family were good too. You get the worried, frustrated mother and wife, the two little kids who eventually start acting weird. There is also the paranormal expert who informs Ellison of the strange symbol in the super 8 films when the murders happened, the fanboy police officer who helps Ellison find out more about the murdered family cases. So the characters are well done in this movie and all have a purpose in the movie.
The music. Something about the music in this move disturbs me. It's dark, gritty, suspenseful and makes the film even better.
Not only the music disturbed me but some of the scenes in this movie creeped me out. The scene where Ellison is walking through the hall to see a cardboard box in a room, at the end of the hall. Once he is close the box opens and his son is in it, in this abnormal position and screams horrifically, I knew it was coming but it was so loud and disturbing it's something I will never forget. Also some of the super 8 film footage in the movie disturbed me. It had a sense of realism as if it really happened. The family getting hanged, the family drowning, the family getting throat sliced and the worst of all, the lawnmower. The lawnmower made me jump big time, only because of the scream as the family is shredded by it. It was so loud it hurt my ears a bit. There are a few more scenes which will scare you but I've said enough.
I found the jump scares in the movie to be a little predictable but that's a minor nitpick.
Also the demon in this movie, Bagul looks like Death from Darksider's 2 and Mick Thompson, the guitarist from the band Slipknot. So I found it a little hard to take him seriously but he is still a creepy entity.
So yeah I thought the movie was pretty good. If you are into movies with great suspense, jump scares, scary demons and interesting characters you might just enjoy this flick. Originally I give it a 4/5