Sinister achieves something most horror films do not in my mind, Perhaps its because as a child I was graced by movies like Ju-On and The red shoes in the cinema. The local cinema near my house used to have friday night horror and they would bring in the latest korean horror movie subtitled every friday one night only. Well since then nothing has been scary. Until Sinister.This movie isnt some cthullu scared for days type horror movie. But lots of very jumpy scenes, I believe at one point my friend watching it with me fell out of his chair.
We have here a story of a man who moves his family into a house where a family had been hung in order to try and write a "true crime" novel about the former residents however he quickly discovers he has bitten off more than he can chew as he discovers tapes in his attic of previous murders by the same person. These tapes get progressively more gruesome with more than one of them requiring the main character to reach IMMEDIATELY for the whiskey. His family life starts to suffer and bad things begin to happen.
It was a scary movie and it will continue to be scary on multiple playings, its only short coming is that they failed the element of "this could happen to me" that they were trying to go for even still the characters are relatible and more than once he did exactly what I told him to do moments after i had thought it.
DVD? Yes, keep it handy for your horror movie nights, its scary and good but lets you recover enough after to watch another scary movie, i recommend The red shoes (2005)
BluRay? Im undecided. It is worth buying because its good and bluray would look good but I normally reserve bluray for shiny movies. Im undecided but I think you can get away with just the DVD.
Overall? 7/10
I rewatched this movie again last night. It still holds up its scare factor on multiple viewings. Which is a telling sign that this is in fact an amazing horror movie.
ReplyDelete