Pretty good

Rating: 7/10 (19 January 2013)

This review contains spoiler, please don't read it before watching the movie.
Sinister is about a true-crime writer who moves into houses that were the scenes of the crimes he is writing about and he is also dragging his family with him. This time they move into a house where four members of a family of five were hung in the backyard while the youngest kid went missing. After writing a bestseller, the guy decides to repeat the success, just making it even better. The story really starts when he finds a box with "home movies" that are super 8 footages of several murders covering a 40-year period, including the one he is working on. As time is going on many paranormal things are happening which slowly lead back to an ancient legend.
Well, as the story is unfolding it's not hard to find out what will happen, but this time it wasn't disturbing. Is the movie using clichés? You bet it is. But the story is so nicely built and feels like a whole that it's just fine. Besides I found it quite scary too in spite of using many well-known cheap scare tricks. So if you are a horror fan, you won't get anything new in terms of horror raw material, but I always like when clichés are used to make something new and the strong story with this interesting redefinition of found footage is quite enjoyable, so give it a try.