Genuinely Scary

Rating: 9/10 (27 December 2016)

Before watching this film I had heard very little about it, all I had been told was that it would make you very wary of younger children. So when I watched Sinster I was expecting something along the lines of insidious but this is far from it. One thing I like about it is that at first we are led to believe that there is definitely something wrong with the eldest child played by Michael Hall D'Addario as there is that very strange scene where he bursts out of a moving box. However, the finding of the projector and the home movies really sets this film apart from others. Ethan Hawke, who plays a author trying to break through the one hit wonder problem, lies to his family and tells them they are moving in to the house a few doors down to where a murder took place. This creates a sense of panic when he does discover the true horrors of the house and the supernatural being that haunts it because he can't tell his family, he has to try and deal with it by himself. This film has a very good story line and there are many places when you really jump out of your seat, but for me the best bit of the film has to be the finding and watching of the tapes because to watch something so gruesome and horrible and see that it is a child that is performing/carrying these deeds out really is sinister.