My Review

Rating: 9/10 (9 May 2014)

Sinister is imho the best horror film of recent years, in large part to the incredible soundtrack "Silence Teaches You How To Sing" by Ulver. Amazing work, I played it last Halloween on the porch, and it's super creepy stuff...
Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, soundtrack by Ulver, written and directed by Scott Derrickson, definitely his best work.
Sinister has a respectable horror film rating of 6.8 on IMDb, and a 63% on Rotten Tomatoes, so I think it's better than the average moviegoer, but they don't think it's that bad. I'm just more forgiving because of the elements I mentioned, plus I love the writing, the pacing, the music, I love mythology based weirdness.
I think I've always been a sucker for found footage horror, even before it was its own genre, it was used sparingly, like in Prince of Darkness, The Ring, Hexen all the way back in the '20s is technically the very first found footage horror film ever made.
Blair Witch brought it back as a genre, Grave Encounters is a personal favorite because it's also a parody of the show Ghost Adventures.