Sinister 2

R

Released Aug 21, 2015

1h 37m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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14%

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91 Reviews

31%

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25,000+ Ratings

Hiding from her abusive, estranged husband, Courtney Collins lives in a rural house with her 9-year-old twins, Dylan and Zach. Young Dylan receives nightly visits from ghoulish kids who show him disturbing images of families being slaughtered. It's all part of the grand plan of Bughuul, the evil spirit who recruits innocent children to murder their loved ones. The only hope for his intended new victims may be a former deputy who's familiar with Bughuul's fiendish work from the past.

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Critics Consensus

Sinister 2 has a few ingredients that will be familiar to fans of the original; unfortunately, in this slapdash second installment, none of them are scary anymore.

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Marc Savlov

Austin Chronicle

Not half as terrifying as Norwegian black metal, but still one of the better found footage-gimmicked sequels in recent memory.

Rated: 2/5

Aug 27, 2015

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Wesley Morris

Grantland

There comes a point when you have to say no to these horror sequels. There's no skill or idea visible anywhere, just the sound of money being sucked from your pockets.

Aug 26, 2015

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Nick Schager

The Playlist

Ransone's tone-deaf performance helps validate this knuckleheaded story's portrait of cinema as a potential gateway to pain and suffering.

Rated: C-

Aug 25, 2015

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Keith Garlington

Keith & the Movies

...a profound mess of a movie.

Rated: 1.5/5

Aug 25, 2022

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

Overall, this is D-level material, and the only genuine shock it delivers is that it didn’t debut on VOD or Netflix.

Rated: 1.5/4

May 29, 2022

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Richard Crouse

Richard Crouse

Not scary enough to be called a horror film, it isn't funny enough, intentionally anyway, to be a comedy.

Rated: 1/5

Feb 3, 2021

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Charlie B

Doesn't clarify much from the first movie, some very stupid moments. The way they introduced kills was dumb. Overall just a awful sequel to a decent first movie.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

08/08/24

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Connor M

Need to watch the first one to understand what is going on. It was not scary at all. Just the overwhelm a bad movie

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

06/27/24

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Korra N

Sinister 2 has a couple solid performances in the two leads, but clunky writing choices, mediocre direction, poor effects and some ridiculous kid acting make this just a bad sequel. It's honestly baffling how underwhelming this movie is, because C. Robert Cargill and Scott Derrickson wrote the script, yet it feels rote and tiresome.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

06/20/24

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Joel M

My lord this movie is not scary, unlike like the original.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

05/05/24

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R-T T

Sinister 2 is a terrible attempt to continue an interesting first film, there is a good plot here that leads us to the stupidest confusion

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

03/22/24

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Zion J

It is not anywhere near as good as the first sinister, but I got to admit, some of the tapes that were shown were disturbing to me

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

03/13/24

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Ciarán Foy

Director

James Ransone

Ex-Deputy So & So

Shannyn Sossamon

Courtney Collins

Robert Sloan

Dylan Collins

Dartanian Sloan

Zach Collins

Lea Coco

Clint Collins

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Synopsis

Hiding from her abusive, estranged husband, Courtney Collins lives in a rural house with her 9-year-old twins, Dylan and Zach. Young Dylan receives nightly visits from ghoulish kids who show him disturbing images of families being slaughtered. It's all part of the grand plan of Bughuul, the evil spirit who recruits innocent children to murder their loved ones. The only hope for his intended new victims may be a former deputy who's familiar with Bughuul's fiendish work from the past.

Director: Ciarán Foy
Producer: Jason Blum, Scott Derrickson
Screenwriter: Scott Derrickson, C. Robert Cargill
Distributor: Focus Features
Production Co: Blumhouse
Rating: R (Language|Bloody and Disturbing Images|Strong Violence)
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 21, 2015, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 16, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $27.7M
Runtime: 1h 37m

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