Sinister

Hello people's. Today I'm talking about the Sinister movies.

So a few days I saw Sinister 2. I'm a huge fan of the first movie, I love everything about it so I wasn't surprised when this one wasn't quite as good. However the movie was much better than the ratings that it got. The basis of the Sinister movies is that a demon called Bughuul, better known as the boogeyman, will corrupt an innocent child until it creatively murders its family, usually with some art involved. In modern times Bughuul tends to use film as the art so it's often grainy old cameras filming gruesome murders. Urban legends about murders being filmed and titled "snuff films" already exist and are a terrifying concept in itself. Add in a terrifying real life boogeyman and creepy children and it's no wonder that these movies are so disturbing.

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Both movies center around families moving into a house where one of these murders took place, both families eventually learn about the supernatural causes behind the murders but always find out too late that their own murders would be triggered as soon as they left that house. In the second movie a deputy from the first has been going around and burning unoccupied houses where these murders took place so that all the chains of child killing family Bughuul has created will be broken. However eventually he discovers that there's already a family living in one.. By far the best part of the second movie were the snuff films. In the original film the most disturbing and iconic snuff film is when a family is hanged simultaneously from a tree in their backyard and in the second movie of the 4 new snuff films, all of them are equally or even more disturbing than that. If you watch this movie without seeing the first than these parts will be an enormous shock.

In my opinion if you took the plot from the original Sinister, replaced the least disturbing snuff films with the ones from Sinister 2, and kept the music from the first, then you would have the best possible Sinister story. What was mainly lacking from the second movie was a creative plot line and while I was seeing the movie I started thinking if I could have come up with a better (scarier) ending. Unlike the original Bughuuls plan for the family being murdered fails and only an abusive father is killed. If I had been writing the movie I would have written it so that the mother died, which audiences would have cared about much more, and then after the threat of Bughuul and the murderous child was over I would have a shock ending. The ending would have been the innocent child taking the opportunity to kill his extremely abusive father without Bughuuls influence, showing that true evil is not necessary for the corruption of innocent humans.

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So there were my thoughts of the Sinister movies. Bye.


- By Ashton