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Sinister 2

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Sinister 2

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Summary

Horror starring Shannyn Sossamon and James Ransone. A single mother and her twin sons are unaware their rural farmhouse is marked for death by an evil demon who has been conjured up by a series of old ghost films.

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A star rating of 2 out of 5.

Alan Jones

Superficially faithful to the original film's subtle horror, this sloppy sequel diffuses what one character calls "the aesthetic observance of violence" into the safely ludicrous and lifeless. Ex-deputy James Ransone chases the demon Bughuul to another haunted house, this one inhabited by abuse survivor Shannyn Sossamon and her twin sons, who are falling prey to the madness and murder conjured up by the bogeyman from old film footage of ghostly children. Director Ciaran Foy proved with Citadel (2012) that he was more interested in suggestion than delivery, but his assertive visual style can't control the uneven tone here as the film creaks from a redemption parable to a child-custody melodrama and finally swerves into haywire shocker territory. The atmosphere is sufficiently gloomy even if the scares are scarce - at one point one of the twins is spectrally advised to watch all the scary home movies so he'll never have nightmares again; something akin to watching this movie, one suspects.

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5.3/10

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Cast

rolenameCourtneyShannyn SossamonSo & SoJames RansoneDylan CollinsRobert Daniel SloanZach CollinsDartanian SloanClint CollinsLea CocoDr StombergTate EllingtonFather RodriguezJohn BeasleyMiloLucas Jade ZumannBughuulNicholas KingTedJaden Klein

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Crew

rolenameDirectorCiarán Foy

Details

Theatrical distributor

Entertainment One

Released on

2015-08-21

Languages

English

Guidance

Violence, swearing.

Available on

DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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