Sinister

Rating: 6/10 (5 December 2012)

We have all heard the saying "what goes around comes around", which normally is meant to be said towards a bad guy, but have you heard that same saying used towards a good guy? No. The horror movie Sinister directed by Scott Derrickson tells us that this saying is not always meant to be towards bad guys but it can be for good guys as well. The movie shows that Karma can played on anyone, not just bad people. In the beginning of the film, Super 8 footage shows a family of four standing underneath a tree with bags over their heads and nooses around their necks. An unseen figure makes one of the tree limb falls as the family are rising up being hung. Several months later, a crime novelist, Ellison Oswalt (played well by Ethan Hawke), now moves into the same house as the murder family of four with his wife Tracy (played well by Juliet Rylance) and their two children Ashley (played well by Clare Foley) and Trevor (played well by Michaek Hall D'Addario). Ellison uses these types of murders for his new book. Supposedly, there were five members of the family and one of them went missing after the murders. Throughout the film, there is foreshadowing in that he says to his family that he is going to be famous. In the middle of the night something falls in the attic and he finds a box of super 8 footage. Each film that he finds has a family dying at the end in some gruesome way. He begins to put together the mystery by watching these films until he see's an unknown figure in each film. When Scott started shooting the film Sinister, it began in the autumn of 2011. Sinster was released in 2011 at the SXSW festival in United States. Sinister premiered in the United Kingdom at the London Fright Fest and in Spain. Film.com stated that Sinister was a deeply freighting horror movie. Crickets and reviewers give it a three out of four stars calling it a "Undeniably" scary movie. What I really like about the movie sinister was its visual effects, their acting and some of their comedy. The visual effects came out at me in surprising way. Neat colors, no glitches just perfect. There was a part in the movie where Ellison is on the phone and he turns his back on the computer. Now there was an image of a person on the computer when he paused it. As he was on the phone while the computer was still put on paused, just some how the person move its head side to side then back to its normal position. The acting and comedy played with everybody. The things I didn't like about this movie was the plot. We all know when we see a scary movie there has to be some type of plot in it. Well this one kind of did but it really didn't make any sense. This "unseen" figure name is Boogieman. They say he was some type of demon creature from ancient Babylon that can take kids soul and put his soul into theirs even know the kid is still alive. Basically the kids are being possessed. The movie did not provide enough information about this Boogieman or how this could happen etc. Also in some parts of the movie it will make you confused because you don't have any idea what they are talking about half of the time.