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【Movie Title】 Sinister
【Starring】Ethan Hawke, Juliet Rylance, Fred Dalton Thompson, James Ransone, Michael Hall D'Addario, Clare Foley
【Year】 2012
【Genre】 Mystery/Horror
【Rating 】★★★★✭(that's suppose to be 4 1/2 stars)
Konnichiwa~ Time for another movie review! Contains spoilers!!
At first, I wasn't so sure about this movie. Wasn't sure if I even was going to like it. But ah ha! It surprised me, as well as Otousan, who I watched it the second time with... And besides... I love Ethan Hawke!♥
This movie starts off with a Super 8 footage of four people being hung from a tree branch. Ellison(Ethan Hawke) and his family were moving into their new house. The house they moved into, belonged to the murdered family in the Super 8 footage. Only Ellison had knowledge of this, however, he moved in to be closer to the scene of the crime(which is his backyard), to write his next book, in hopes to solve the case. He goes into his attic to discover a box which contained a projector and 8mm film reels. Once Ellison watches one of the films, he discovered that they are snuff films(if you don't know what snuff films are, they are films of actual deaths).
❶ The first film he watched, there was a little girl playing with her family. It abruptly cuts to the scene in the beginning.
② In the second film, a family is hanging out by a lake in the woods. It cuts to a scene of someone filming them, taped up in their car, which was chained up. Then someone threw a petrol bomb into the back window.
❸ The third film displayed a family playing in their pool. Then it cuts to a scene where they are taped and tied to lawn chairs and dragged into the pool. Ellison notices an ominous image in the bottom of the pool.
④ Forth film displayed someone holding the camera, walking around the house to the bedrooms to slit the throats of parents and a little boy, taped and tied down to their beds.
❺ In this film, they didn't show much because Ellison shut the film off. It showed someone filming a family outside of their home, watching tv. Then it cuts to a scene of the person holding the film, pushing a lawn mower to someone's face. This part made everyone jump(from what I've read) because it was quiet and once the person's face showed up, there was a loud shriek.
Ellison starts noticing all types of disturbances in his house; night terrors of his son being in a box and outside in the bushes, his son drawing the crime scene from the first film on a chalk board, his daughter drawing images of the crime scene, as well as a drawing of the missing girl from the first film. He sees a poisonous snake in the attic and falls through the attic(Otousan was like that's what you get for walking on Sheetrock). Prior to that, the lights had went out and he heard noises in the attic. He recorded himself from in the attic from seeing the top of the box with illustrations of each murder. Later he views the recording from his phone, to see that there were hands pulling him through the hole in the floor. I won't go into anymore details of this movie, just watch it. Basically the children who were missing, were sacrifices for a Pagan deity Bughuul.
I guess at the end of the movie, Ellison realized that he should have taken the Sheriff's advice and left town before they even moved in. But it was too late, because he had already released the terror upon himself and his family, by viewing the snuff films. The little girl sliced them up like a Japanese chef in the kitchen and they turned into the next snuff film.
I guess at the end of the movie, Ellison realized that he should have taken the Sheriff's advice and left town before they even moved in. But it was too late, because he had already released the terror upon himself and his family, by viewing the snuff films. The little girl sliced them up like a Japanese chef in the kitchen and they turned into the next snuff film.
I can concur with the majority, that this movie was SCARY! From beginning to end, there was no time wasted, it was down right creepy! What intrigued me the most about this movie, was the MUSIC. One song reminded me of old 80s slasher movies(Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out! comes to mind) and another reminded me of ritual music from the 70s(Edit- I meant to write that the music also reminded me of that Japanese horror movie entitled The Unidentified). I was having all types of flash backs while watching this movie. I was telling Otousan that this is what horror films these days are missing nowadays, the music! I remember when the music made me jump in films back then, not in your face, bass noises.
I read that the director of this film, used a nightmare of the Ring as a basis for this. That's funny because I do the same thing. That's the best aspirations for all of my work! All types of shit be in your head, and you won't find out until you have a yume(dream) about it. lol Wes Craven got the idea of Freddy from his dream of a man with a hat being outside of his window, telling him to make a movie about him. :]
From what I've read, a lot of people hated the ending. Ha... Well, there can't always be a happy ending in horror movies. There wasn't a happy ending in the Cabin in the Woods. Lets go further, there wasn't a happy ending in the Wicker Man either. If you want to watch a Paranormal/Supernatural/Metaphysical movie where the family survives, watch the last Amiteyville Horror film, starring Ryan Reynolds.
In conclusion, I really enjoyed this movie. I wasn't sure at first, if I was going to like the movie because of the disappointment with previous horror films(PA4). But I'm glad that I gave it a chance, because when it comes to horror(as you can read from the titles I've mentioned), I'm a hardcore horror film fanatic, and couldn't pass up the opportunity to watch this one. Should have been longer though... I watched this movie late at night, with the lights off. Yeah... 0_0 lol Enjoy the film, minna-san. Yoi Ichinichi Oi~
