By THOMAS BOND, Oklahoma City Horror Movie Examiner

(as published on Examiner.com)

In today’s depressing world of the Hollywood sequel machine it’s so refreshing to see a film that can still shock, scare and surprise. The director of such a film is Scott Derrickson, who refused to let a big studio dictate how his film would play out, and especially how it would end. He searched until he found a company that let him have complete control, a minor miracle. The result is “Sinister“, a film so full of unmentionables and studio “no no’s” that it feels almost foreign. What’s certain is that the film feels uncomfortable, disturbing, and entirely horrifying.

“Sinister” is about a true-crime novelist named Ellison Oswalt (Ethan Hawke), who, in search of his next great story, movies his wife (Juliet Rylance) and two kids to a new town so he can be closer to the crime scene of his planned story. His wife wants to know if they’ve moved next door to a murder scene “again”. He promises “No”, and he tells the truth. They’ve haven’t moved next door to the scene of the crime, they’ve moved into it. Four members of a family were found hanging in a tree out back, and their little girl is still missing…

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(Read the full review, check out the slideshow, and watch the trailer here, at Examiner.com)

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