Last night, I watched the new horror film, “Sinister” starring, Ethan Hawke.

It tells the story of the true-crime writer named, Ellison Oswalt, who moves his family into a home where a horrific murder happened in the backyard. Ellison’s family — who has a wife, a son, and daughter — doesn’t know about the crime. Ellison moved his family to the home to do research to write a novel about it. His novel writing career is in a career slump and he wants to write a book on the tragedy at this home, hoping that will make him a successful writer again. As he learns more and more about the crime that happened years ago at the home, he becomes even more obsessed with it and works on the research for hours & hours. Ellison finds footage of tapes that you would watch on an 8mm camera (pictured above). Each footage on the tapes has different murders that were disturbing and graphic; however, in each tape, he finds the face of a unique figure he never saw before. As a result, his family tries to talk him out of what he is doing, and things in the home get much worse after that.

That’s enough of the plot. On with my thoughts of the movie. Honestly, I thought this was one of the best horror films of the last 10 years.  I think this movie, “Sinister”, and the new, “Evil Dead”, movie were the best horror films ever made in over a decade. “Sinister” really was that good. It is true horror at it’s finest. True supernatural horror. The movie was well-filmed and well-made. It felt like a horror movie all the way through, and it didn’t rely on gore too much. There is gore but not a whole lot. The less gore, the scarier a horror film gets. “Sinister” was actually scary as hell and I was a little creeped out at some parts. Especially, the film’s ending which was a big shocker I never saw coming. This was Ethan’s best acting too.

I think I’m gonna get this film on Blu-Ray sometime ’cause it will be a great film to watch on Halloween. If you like creepy ghost movies, then this is the film to see. It really was a great movie, I was impressed with it.

Kev