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Sinister 2

R Released Aug 21, 2015 1h 37m Horror Mystery & Thriller List
14% Tomatometer 91 Reviews 31% Popcornmeter 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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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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Keith Garlington Keith & the Movies ...a profound mess of a movie. Rated: 1.5/5 Aug 25, 2022 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Read all reviews

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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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Joel M My lord this movie is not scary, unlike like the original. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 05/05/24 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Read all reviews
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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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