FilmRSupernatural Witchcraft & Occult Found Footage

Sinister2012

Name: Sinister
Genre: Supernatural, Witchcraft & Occult, Found Footage, Psychological
Released: 2012-10-04
Rating: 6.7

“Once you see him, nothing can save you.”

Directed by Scott Derrickson

6.7

Crypt Score

Blended from 4 sources

IMDb 6.8Rotten Tomatoes 64%Metacritic 53TMDB 6.9

✍ Review

On the charts

#3·Top Horror Movies of 2012 #12·Top Found Footage Films

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Year

2012

Runtime

110 min

Box Office

Budget

$3,000,000

Revenue (worldwide)

$82,515,113

Domestic

$48,086,903

🏆 3 wins & 14 nominations total

The premise

True-crime writer Ellison Oswalt is in a slump; he hasn't had a best seller in more than 10 years and is becoming increasingly desperate for a hit. So, when he discovers the existence of a snuff film showing the deaths of a family, he vows to solve the mystery. He moves his own family into the victims' home and gets to work. However, when old film footage and other clues hint at the presence of a supernatural force, Ellison learns that living in the house may be fatal.

Horror Vault's take

A struggling true-crime writer moves his unsuspecting family into a house where a brutal killing took place, convinced the story inside its walls will resurrect his faded career. What he uncovers in the attic — a box of Super 8 home movies depicting gruesome deaths across decades — opens a door he cannot close. As the footage draws him deeper into a pattern of occult horror, the line between investigator and victim begins to blur. Sinister is a slow-burn descent into dread that weaponizes domesticity against the audience.

Content: Graphic Depictions Of Murder Including Drowning And Hanging, Child Death And Child Endangerment, Disturbing Snuff-Style Home Movie Footage, Jump Scares, Dark Themes Around Family Violence