Sinister (2012)

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"Scott Derrickson’s Sinister isn’t a period piece, but by directing its attention backward it brackets its chosen tech-horror particulars as products of a bygone era—in this case considerably further back than the period of tube TVs and quarter-inch tapes to which this subgenre of horror so often belongs. Much like Ringu, Sinister concerns a cursed film whose audience dies after exposure to it, but here the curse is disseminated not by clunky videotape, but by a box of 8mm films. The projec"

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"Country: USA Director: Scott Derrickson Writers: Scott Derrickson, C. Robert Cargill "

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" Directed by: Scott Derrickson Produced by: Jason Blum and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones Written by: Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill Cinematography: Chris Norr Edited by: Frederic Thoraval Music by: Christopher Young Distributed by: Summit Entertainment"

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"My Rating:7/10 "

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"Horror, Mystery, Thriller"

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"16/06/2017"

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"First Watched 4/14/2017"

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"Ellison Oswalt "

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" A quite atmospheric and tense movie. Throughout it all, you're never really sure exactly what is going on. But it's very well executed, and it is very gripping.  "

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"Due for rewatch"

An average movie

“To be honest, I really had no idea what this movie was about but since it seemed to be a decent horror flick, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, eventually, the beginning was quite promising. Indeed, Ethan Hawke is a solid actor and I loved the idea of this washed-up writer going to a new city hoping to finally write his next best-seller about a local gruesome crime. Unfortunately, the whole thing started to fall down when he found those Super-8 films. I mean, it was pretty neat that he found one but so many of them? I wish he actually found just the one dealing with the crime he was investigating and that they would focus just on this murder case but, instead, they went  for something way too convoluted for my taste. Indeed, even though you might expect the main character to d” read more