Co-written (with C. Robert Cargill) and directed by Scott Derrickson (
The Exorcism of Emily Rose),
Sinister is
an atmospheric and often-terrifying suburban-set haunted house thriller
with grounds in a grisly crime mystery, and a twist of paranoia and the
supernatural.
A washed up true crime writer, Ellison Oswalt (Ethan Hawke) has just
moved his wife (Juliet Rylance) and two children into a new home to
start working on a new novel. He solely possesses the knowledge that the
previous occupants died a horrible death in the backyard. Ellison has
decided to investigate and utilise this case as the basis for his book,
which he hopes will result in another bestseller and repair his
reputation.
Not long after moving Ellison finds a box in the attic containing a
projector and a series of 8mm films. What he first believes to be
innocent home movies turn out to be violent snuff films shot by the
killer. Who filmed them? How did they get into the attic? Rattled by
these questions Ellison begins to obsess. But when he notices a masked
figure watching on in one of the films, strange things begin to go bump
in the night. He finds his tough nerves shredded, his sanity suffering
and his family threatened.
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