Just back from the film SINISTER. Really enjoyed this one.
As the film was starting a bunch of teens further back were sat gossiping and I felt annoyed thinking I was going to have to come across as the bad guy for telling them to shut the F**k up. (why do people come to the cinema just to chat through a film or social network on their phones) Suddenly the grainy 8mm footage of the family suspended from the tree slowly being hung came on the screen and the teens shut the hell up and stayed quiet for the rest of the movie!
Sinister is not an out-and-out scarefest like its advertised but it is damn creepy all the way through and goes for a sense of absolute dread rather than screaming panic. Kudos to Christopher Young for his score which does a lot for the film and is probably some of his best work, very low key, industrial moody sounds, fantastic. Ethan Hawke does a marvellous job with his role making his morally grey character sympathetic despite some of his really poor behaviour to his family. Finally the 8mm footage of the family murders is very creepy and the fleeting glances of the killer are far more scary than the end reveal which is one of the few dissapointing moments in an otherwise solid horror movie.
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