Another cliché horror flick

Rating: 6/10 (15 October 2012)

You know, every once in a while there comes a film that startles audiences in ways you can't even imagine. This is not that film. Sinister is a mediocre horror film that disappointed me. My girlfriend and I had been waiting to see this movie since we saw the trailer at around July. We were really pumped. We went to see it Friday during the first showing, and needless to say we were disappointed. Ethan Hawke plays a writer whose only famous writing is a book titled "Kentucky Blood". He moves to a rural town where he decides to write his next book based on the murders that occurred in that area. Well guess what? The house that he bought is where the murders occurred! Acting wise I think Ethan Hawke did an OK job. One of the things that bugged me is that every time that him and his wife would get into a yelling match, he would YELL and then whisper.... Every scene. This is not what broke the movie for me. What did that is what every other horror film has done in the past 20 years: It doesn't scare. There was one moment where I jumped because he yelled like a girl and it was completely unintentional hilarity. Horror films nowadays try to scare by shock value. The key to a good horror film is to want th main characters to persevere and live another day! I did not like this family so I did not care what happened to them. The "jumpy" moments are very predictable, and you know what's going to happen. Now I will say this: I did very much enjoy the ending to this movie as it does not end the same way as other "scary" movies. I won't give it away but it's interesting... Sinister is an average scary movie that doesn't work as well as I thought it would. Here's to the future and hoping that scary movies actually get it right for once. 6/10