Sinister is a tape that in 2012 was able to scare many fans of the horror genre. The ominous scenes of violence performed by young children shown in the film excited hearts and made you think. A separate vivid memory of the mystical film was the image of Bagul, the demon of the underworld, who gathered little killers under his wing. He was a kind of mysterious creature who did evil, but did not appear to the viewer to the end.
In 2015, the second Sinister was released. This film was shot by another director, so it was radically different from the first.
Fans of the horror genre in the cinema can be recommended to watch both films. And then the review of the film "Sinister" everyone will have their own, based on personal impressions. Well, we will begin to consider the film with a brief overview of the storyline.
The film "Sinister": a description of the plot
It all starts with ominous shots. A family of four with bags on their heads stands under a tree. Shots succeed each other, and we see how someone helps these people pass away by removing the branch that served as a counterweight ...
In a minute we meet the family of Ellison Oswalt, a writer. He, together with his wife, daughter and son, moved to a new house, in which this mysterious murder occurred. Oswalt is a very enthusiastic creative person. He creates his novels, based on really committed brutal crimes.
At the stage of moving things, the writer's family does not go well. Allison himself has long been unable to create a worthwhile work, so there are few livelihoods, and the spouses' dissatisfaction with each other is growing. But in reality it will be even worse.
Video Box
Only the head of the family knows that the house the Oswaltes moved to belonged to people with a terrible video recording. In the attic, he finds a video box with the most innocent names. Our hero decides to watch the first film and realizes that in front of him is a snuff. The film “Pool'66” captures the murder of an entire family. All its members, tied to sunbeds, are drowning. Barbecue'79 is another scene of a brutal murder. On the record, people with gagged mouth burned alive in a car.
Oswalt understands that all these killings are interconnected. What will the film Sinister continue to talk about? The plot is developing rapidly.
Connecting link
Looking carefully at the films, Oswalt notices that each of them has a terrible blurry face. In the freeze frame, the hero manages to examine it closer. In addition, each film has the same symbol, the meaning of which is unknown to the writer.
A local policeman, whom Oswalt meets, says that such crimes occur throughout the country with a frequency of several years, starting in the 60s. Someone kills entire families, using different methods, but one thing remains unchanged - the disappearance of one child.
Oswalt turns to the local professor of demonology and occultism and finds out that the symbol that he saw on the video boxes at home is a sign of Bagul, the demon of hell. This creature makes the children kill their loved ones, and then takes their little black souls for themselves.
With the children of Oswalt himself, something was wrong from the very move. 12-year-old Trevor is suffering from terrible nightmares, and 7-year-old Ashley is unperturbed. Perhaps the girl had never been so calm and decisive before. On this we leave the heroes of the film "Sinister." The storyline description needs to be interrupted right now. Next will be the most interesting. The ending of the film is exactly the basis on which each viewer builds his own review of the film “Sinister”. Talk about it is not worth it, because these events need to be seen. We will not deprive the viewer of these emotions and talk about the actors of the tape.
Actors and their roles. Ethan hawk
The main character of the tape, Ellison Oswalt, was played by actor Ethan Hawke. In 1985, he made his film debut in the movie "Explorers," and since then his career has been rapidly developing. The most famous roles of Ethan Hawke are Todd Anderson in The Society of Dead Poets, Jake in Training Day, Hamlet in the eponymous adaptation of the 2000 Shakespeare play. The main work of the actor in such a genre as horror is Sinister. However, Ethan Hawke is not only an actor, but also a screenwriter and director. With the hero of the mystic film, Ellison Oswalt, he is connected by another lesson - writing books. Hawke has already released two novels, one of which was filmed.
The personal life of the actor also deserves to be said about her. From 1998 to 2005, Ethan Hawke was the husband of Uma Thurman. From this marriage he has two children. After the divorce, Hawke married their nanny, who also bore him two lovely daughters.
James Ranson
James Ranson starred in the first movie, Sinister, as a deputy sheriff. It was he who told Allison Oswalt that the killing of entire families in America is interconnected. Why is such an episodic role in the Sinister film worthy of attention? The actors of the two parts are connected by the storyline, and it was James Ranson who played the main role in the sequel.
His other roles in the movie can hardly be called large-scale. But the actor is often busy filming TV shows. “Law and order”, “Third shift”, “Ed”, “wiretap” - all these stories not only in America are connected with the name of James Ranson.
Another movie (horror) - "Sinister 2"
The sequel was shown on large screens not so long ago, but has already become the subject of heated discussion. The second Sinister, whose release date in Russia was set for August 20, 2015, intrigued fans of the first film. Many were wondering if the tape could convey the same atmosphere of horror and hopelessness as the original story.
What was the storyline of the second film with the name "Sinister"? Actors embodied this story in a new way.
Plot of the film
Now, the boy, Dylan Collins, is watching the bloody killings of entire families on video. He, together with his mother and twin brother, lives in an old house, where they had to move, fleeing from a tyrant father. To watch the heartbreaking stories on the boy’s films, ghostly children make them appear and disappear from time to time.
The ex-sheriff’s former acquaintance with the writer Ellison Oswalt travels around America and burns all the houses in which families killed by atrocious means lived in order to prevent new deaths. He gets to the house of Dylan and his family. The hero’s relationship with the boy’s mother is almost already being struck up, but here Bagul and his little ghostly helpers come into play ...
Film criticism
As mentioned above, a review of the film “Sinister”, to share it with friends and acquaintances, each viewer must make himself. But still, some points that critics and just fans of the mystical genre most often pay attention to are worth noting.
So, what enriched such a genre as horror, "Sinister"? If we talk about the first film, then this is a special atmosphere of hopelessness, which is not present in every similar creation of modern directors. Watching the changes taking place with the main character throughout the whole story, the viewer realizes that despair, lack of hope - this is the most terrible nightmare that can only be present in human life.
Bagul in the first film scares not a terrible guise, and not even actions. He is present in the narrative, but appears only casually, while not making terrible grimaces and not jumping out from around the corner. It is this mysticism, the expectation of something incredibly scary, that becomes what distinguishes real horrors from the base “masterpiece” by one time.
Sinister 2, unfortunately, did not live up to the expectations of many viewers. This is the same story, but told by other people. The stunning atmosphere of the first tape somewhere just evaporated. Bagul is no longer afraid of anything other than his unexpected appearances, and you can’t worry about the fate of the protagonist as much as about writer Ethan Hawke.
Critics dubbed Sinister 2 a failed sequel to a quality horror movie. Well, such a review of the film "Sinister" has a right to exist, but the original picture can be safely added to the list of the best films in the horror genre of the new millennium.