Some movies take a lot of cross cultural horror content and make something new out of it. Sinister is one such movie where you will find a lot of cross cultural horror elements all coming into cult-classic storyline. It won't scare you in a way by showing some gore violence or scary faces but it has some dark vibe to it.
You will find plenty of praise and the various explainer YouTube videos for this movie. And to top it off you may find the movie has some really good characters to keep you a company.
Let's review Sinister movie.
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Before we even begin the review let me tell you something about the demonic creature in the movie. The movie shows the story around the demonic creature named "buggul". This is one of the cross cultural demonic entity that takes the kids to the hell. The story however shows extended version of this creatures ability to manipulate the kids to do things for him. In Asia, there are some pretty ancient stories about this demonic creature as it predates even the Christianity times.
Ethan hawke is shown as a crime and thriller author who writes some of the bestseller content. And he has now decided to move into a house which has history of the murders. Ethan hawke, his kid and wife move into the house and then things start to go wrong. Here they meet a deputy office who is shown to take the story ahead in sequel of the movie. Unfortunately sequel was directed in such a way that they destroyed the powerful storyline into just dragged storyline.
Coming back to our story, you may find that Ethan hawke is busy connecting the murders that happen in various locations and have nothing much in common. And then the things around him start to get him into the spiral.
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Story from here onwards you should explore on your own as it contains the scare factor and also things from the rest of the movie would stay in your head.
There are not many characters in the movie as it makes use of very limited amount of the characters and story shows a lot of Ethan hawke and the deputy guy in the movie. These two guys are the one who develop the most of the story. Ethan's acting kind of glues you in such way that you would pretty much fall for the story and go ahead with the progress of the rest of the elements of the story.
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I am pretty much happy with how the placement of the characters was done and how the characters were used till the end to preserve the mystery around what is about to come.
I'd definitely applaud to the execution and the efforts taken by the director on this movie. You don't expect much about the ending. And also you would not expect how this demonic entity would do the bidding the entire movie. I never expected this demonic entity would be passively getting his work done and do less scare all over considering cultural folk tales wise this is very scary entity especially for pregnant ladies and the kids.
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I loved how kids were managed in the story. And also how the story flows from the slow pace reaching to the ultimate mystery. It also opens up more variations at the end for the sequels, prequels and other extended storylines that could be made through the plot.
Movie has plenty of the best parts for you to check out and you would definitely enjoy every bit of it. Not only that you would pretty much agree with me on this once you finish the movie.
and now let's talk about the not so good parts of the movie or the worst part of the movie.
There are some of the parts you may not like about the movie. And I think it depends on how you watched it and if you kind of see the demon differently and the overall story.
A lot of folks connect this demon with the criminals who attacks kids. So that sort of connection kind of kills the depth of the story and also the legitimacy of the demonic entity. I think they could have done more to establish the demons manipulative context on kids.
Yes. 100%. You should definitely watch this movie. it's pity that there is not much prequel content on this demonic entity. You can find similar demonic entity in the HBO Original named "The Outsider". But that entity deals with fear aspect instead of the abduction of kids aspect. So I'd let you explore more on such horror element on your own.
If you are into Thriller and the psychological Horror plot where there are some cross cultural horror elements into the plot, then Sinister movie is worth watching.
