"Sinister" is overselling it...

Rating: 5/10 (5 September 2017)

Amityville with an unlikable crime writer. It basically amounts to Ethan Hawke wandering around a dark house for nearly two hours, pretending to be scared, like an unwitting Pied Piper.
It has all the elements for a spooky story, but either overuses images that could be creepy in isolation too many times to be consistently effective, or else doesn't want to put any proper meat on the bones of its central idea. Like a cheap fairground ride, there are a few jump scares, but any substance of true terror vanishes the second you emerge into daylight.