Occult horror starring Ethan Hawke as a true-crime novelist who discovers a box of mysterious, disturbing home movies that plunge...
Occult horror starring Ethan Hawke as a true-crime novelist who discovers a box of mysterious, disturbing home movies that plunge his family into a nightmarish experience of supernatural terror. Also stars Law and Order veterans Vincent D’Onofrio and Fred Dalton Thompson. From the director of The Exorcism of Emily Rose.
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63 %158 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
62 %80,473 reviewsAudience score rating
"The scares are not just intense but unyielding in this compelling horror yarn."
Variety"An enjoyable, if boilerplate, boo-flick that maintains an enviable rate of scares per minute by throwing everything - demons, ghosts, snakes, loud noises - at the screen."
Total Film"This so-so, occasionally effective horror film combines found-footage creepiness and haunted-house scares - but is stronger on mood than story."
Time Out"There isn't an ounce of ingenuity in the way the movie is concluded, but some generic expertise in the way it is put together."
The Guardian"An undeniably scary movie, with performances adding enough human interest to give depth to the basic building blocks of horror."
Roger Ebert"As the best horror stories so often do, Sinister makes clear that we are our own boogeymen, the worst monsters of all."
Los Angeles Times"Enjoyably edgy fright flick meshes serial-killer and haunted house ingredients."
Hollywood Reporter"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."
Empire Magazine"An occult thriller that scares with an absolute relentlessness."
A.V. ClubSinister | Details
- Runtime
- 110
- Genre
- Horror
- Country of origin
- USA
