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Sinister 2

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Sinister 2

R

Released Aug 21, 2015

1h 37m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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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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thiago s

Filme fraco, o roteiro é fraco, as cenas de terror são fracas, o elenco é fraco, e ninguém ajuda a melhorar o filme, a história é fraca, os personagens sao fracos, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores e relevantes para fazer o filme ser bom.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

05/13/25

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Daniel C

I personally enjoyed this movie more than the first one. Much creepier digging into the past of many dead children killing their families. This movie is a great watch

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/30/25

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Ma D

This was a good movie. Despite what people say, star power does not make a movie. The characters give you people to root for. It is more the suspenseful side of horror. Give this a try, screw the critics.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/20/25

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Ma. Catherine V

Not a fan it's just boring and very forgettable

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

03/02/25

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Josh A

A lot of people seem to hate this movie, but I don't get it. I quite enjoyed this as a sequel and a fun horror movie. This is a fairly standalone sequel to Sinister. The only real tie this has is the tapes and my favourite character in these films: Officer So and So. He's an effective tie to the first movie. We also get to see more about how the children who make the tapes are manipulated into killing their families, and it's interesting. The true horror of Sinister 2 is peer pressure, I guess. The tapes are also great in this movie. They aren't as good as the first movie's, but they're still quite good. Seeing the process of them being made is also quite a treat that I'm glad we got. Of course, the tapes have less of a low quality vibe to them, but the vibe still feels like the tapes from the first movie, so it's not completely different. I'm rambling, aren't I? Well, I like to ramble. If you don't like your reviewers rambling, you're reading from the wrong reviewer. Overall, it's a fun sequel to Sinister with good tapes and an entertaining plot.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/11/25

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SAMUEL ISAAC R

Lastimosamente intenta ser una secuela de los sucesos de la primer película y hace que sea un poco forzoso vincularlos, pues opaca la magia de la primer entrega y crea un ambiente donde el miedo psicológico no resalta como en la primera, generando así momentos de suspenso predecibles pasando del suspenso/terror al drama novelesco

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

11/09/24

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Ciarán Foy

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James Ransone

Ex-Deputy So & So

Shannyn Sossamon

Courtney Collins

Robert Sloan

Dylan Collins

Dartanian Sloan

Zach Collins

Lea Coco

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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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