A Breath Of Fresh Scare

Rating: 7/10 (1 August 2013)

In a time where we seem to see a new "Found Footage" movie on a weekly basis and filming already well underway for Paranormal Activity 5 I was pleasantly surprised by Sinister. Sure i had heard this was meant to be a genuinely scary movie, but i hear that a lot and am very rarely impressed. Although none of Sinister idea's of particularly original and as mentioned before its not the first of its kind but still found myself enjoying the movie the further i got into it. Although this isn't strictly a found footage movie it plays on the premises of finding home movies of murders and the effect it is having on the lead character much like the Ring movies did. The one thing that really sets Sinister apart for me was the quality of acting in the movie which really help draw the watcher in as a pose to wonder how the actor was related to the director in order to get the part.
Despite the fact i think the studio put this movie together to be a combination of Paranormal Activity and Insidious Sinister is a good horror movie and i would swing in more in favour of V/H/S that i would the more mainstream counterparts.