I chose to start my reviews with the movie Sinister because honestly in the last ten years the Bughuul a.k.a "Mr. Boogey" character has been one of my favorite icons to grace the screen.
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Sinister is by far one of the most interesting plots I've ever seen unfold in a horror movie. This probably being in part that while I'm an incredibly huge horror fanatic I am also a morbidly avid fan of true crime novels as well.
The plot alone at first glance looks like you're in for a ride seeing the ever amazing Ethan Hawke portraying an investigative true crime author jonesing for a fix of fame his first book brought him leads him to follow a rabbit hole of murder when finding home movies with twisted, and horrible family murders relating to the one he's now writing about.
The movie starts out with seeing the family murder that brings Hawke's character, and subsequently his family too into the house of the victims for him to work on a new novel investigating the crime. Unwelcomed by the local sheriff, and marital rift from two recent novels not going his way putting him in a slump has overextending himself to make this new book the best one yet.
Upon moving in, and setting everything up he finds a box of super 8 films, and projector hidden under the floorboards in the attic each cutely titled, but horribly themed detailing other massacres of entire families where a child went missing. Further investigating into these show something truly morbid as he finds a figure who appears in every movie he finds.
Thinking it's the killer he soon finds out he is something truly worse than he was expecting.
I personally loved how this looked like at first glance just a realistic psychological thriller, and slowly transitioned into something paranormal in the reality of it. I loved the characters, and the icon made as the story progresses.
The change from real, to paranormal haunting I thought was done quite well. The acting despite commentary I thought was great though I think the sheriff(Fred Thompson) was overdone giving such a great actor such little actual screen time.
Overall I personally think out of most of the movies to hit the horror genre in the last ten years Sinister definitely warrants the watch, and praise in comparison to other titles shoveled into our cinemas.
