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Sinister

2012

Scott Derrickson

Ethan Hawke, James Ransone, Juliet Rylance, Vincent D'Onofrio ...

5.9

22,071

Horror. Thriller Found footage helps a true-crime novelist realize how and why a family was murdered in his new home, though his discoveries put his entire family in the path of a supernatural entity.

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"The scares are not just intense but unyielding in this compelling horror yarn"	POS
United States	Wesley Morris Boston Globe	"A cheap chiller (...) As much as 'Sinister' wants to tell a story, there isn't much of a story to be told (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"Derrickson bounces back from his insipid redo of The Day The Earth Stood Still with an effective chiller that's got a skeleton or two in its closet. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"An undeniably scary movie, with performances adding enough human interest to give depth to the basic building blocks of horror (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"For its sheer claustrophobic nastiness, this run-of-the-mill horror film deserves some points (...) Explicit shocks, with crashing musical stabs, are the order of the day (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	The Hollywood Reporter	"Occasionally stupid (stretching even fright-flick conventions) but scary nonetheless, the pic should please horror fans."	POS

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