Insultingly Bad

Rating: 5/10 (1 November 2012)

Judging by the trailer, I expected this movie to be right up my alley. What a disappointment. It wasn't intelligent, edgy, or disturbing. In fact, Sinister was so dumbed-down that I was pretty insulted by the time it was over. It became a very predictable rotation-Main character watches a film reel, hears a noise, walks around his pitch-black house, sees something creepy. We could predict the jumps like clockwork. My boyfriend called the entire plot about twenty minutes into the movie. The costumes and makeup were laughably bad, the 'possessed' children cliché, and the villain 'Mr. Boogie' (really?) looked like an emaciated member of KISS. The movie had many unnecessarily stylized sequences with no meaning, and it drove its point home to the point of torment. The. children. are. murdering. everyone. WE GET IT. The ONLY reason I am giving this movie any stars is because the music was fantastic, especially the use of Boards of Canada's 'Gyroscope' in the sequence where the moronic main character burns the film reels.
I really am baffled at the great reviews this movie got. I mean, yeah, if you are mentally incapacitated, I could see you being scared by this movie. I even saw a review that used the phrase 'deepy frightening'. DEEPLY FRIGHTENING?! If Sinister is deeply frightening then so is Casper the Friendly Ghost. Start thinking, people.
Also disappointed because the director was also behind Exorcism of Emily Rose and I loved that movie.
A complete waste of $20 and an evening.