Well,
the first Sinister didn’t exactly set the world on fire, but we got a sequel to
it anyway. If you remember Sinister, you’re
already one up on me. All I remember is
Ethan Hawke cashing a paycheck by watching snuff movies in his attic until a
white-faced boogeyman came to kill his family.
This
time around, it’s Shannyn Sossamon’s family’s turn to be menaced by the weird
boogeyman dude. She and her two sons are
hiding out at a remote farmhouse from her asshole abusive ex. While she’s busy playing footsie with a
private investigator (James Ransone), her kids are busy being shown snuff
movies by the ghost children that inhabit the house. Naturally, it’s only a matter of time before
they’re trying to make a snuff flick of their own.
Sinister
2 basically remakes the original in a new setting with a different cast. The results are all-too familiar. The family drama is relatively uninvolving,
and Shannon Sossamyn is no Ethan Hawke either.
At least Ransone (who is soon to be seen in It 2) is amusing as the
nerdy, well-meaning, but ultimately ineffective investigator who becomes the
family’s de facto protector. Whenever he’s
onscreen, the flick is at the very least tolerable.
Unfortunately,
the horror elements are woefully lackluster, which doesn’t help matters
any. The scenes of the ghost kids
showing Sossamon’s sons their various snuff films quickly become
repetitive. Most of them go on and on
without much of a payoff. The only
marginally effective sequence is the one involving rats gnawing their way out
of people’s stomachs. That’s about the
only gnarly moment in an otherwise forgettable, unnecessary sequel. If we had one or two more sequences of this
caliber, it might’ve worked. As it is, there’s
nothing remotely sinister about Sinister 2.
Hey,
are you wondering where my review for the original Sinister is? Well, you can find it in my latest book, The Bloody
Book of Horror, which is currently on sale at Amazon. To get your copy, follow this handy link: https://www.amazon.com/Bloody-Book-Horror-Mitch-Lovell/dp/1542566622/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1538450805&sr=8-3
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