SINISTER REVIEW By Kirkland Morris
Nothing says you are about to watch a horror film like an opening scene of a family of four, hands tied behind their backs and sacks over their heads. Sinister is a very small but very effective horror film that goes the distance in doing what horror movies are made to do ““ scare the crap out of the audience. Ellison Oswalt (played well by Ethan Hawke) is a non-fiction crime writer who moves his wife Tracy (Juliet Rylance), his son Trevor (Michael Hall D’Addario) and daughter Ashley (Clare Foley) into a new home that sets in a rural area.
They are greeted by the local
Oswalt is quickly entranced by the find and queues up more footage. In the interim”¦ Oswalt’s daughter is trying to adjust while his son is having night terrors that cause him to sleep walk and “˜turn up’ in places that evoke explosive screams from the audience at a moment’s notice. It’s not long before Oswalt is hearing things go bump in the night but he keeps the old footage rolling.
Suddenly he realizes that he might have a glimpse of the suspected serial murderer on one of the footage reels; a glimpse that’s all too creepy in its own right. Oswalt soon realizes that this same sinister figure is present at all of the filmed murdersOswalt enlists the help of a quirky local deputy (James Ransone) to help do some research into the victims, which he is more than happy to do behind the
