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There are three ways to generate scares in a horror film: smart writing, a creepy filming style or an interesting creature. The better these elements, the better the film.

C’mon, Ethan Hawke, you’re better than this. Isn’t there a “Before Sunset” sequel that needs your attention?

Directed by Scott Derrickson, Sinister follows true-crime novelist Ellison Oswalt (Ethan Hawke) as he and his family move into a house where a gruesome murder occurred years prior - with creepiness ensuing after Ellison discovers a series of 8mm...

“Sinister” has all the rusty, trusty tools of the scary movie trade. There are creepy kids, creaky houses, a mysterious bad guy and plenty of times when things jump out at the audience. What sets “Sinister” apart from the rest of the pack is how it...

Two trendlets of the mid-2000s—the hitch-stepped, image-phobic world of J-horror films like The Ring and Pulse, and bleak, hard-R extreme horror—combine to diabolical effect in Scott Derrickson’s Sinister, an occult thriller that scares with an...

"Sinister" goes about as far as a horror movie can with just shocking images, a good cast and outstanding sound design. But this modestly creepy blend of "The Ring" and "The Shining" whiffs on a horror film fundamental: Nobody seems that scared.

A true-crime writer (Ethan Hawke) moves his family into the house where an entire family was murdered—except for one child who disappeared. In the attic, he finds a stash of home movies dating back to 1959, snuff films showing not only the murders in...

When a horror movie is damn bloody derivative, that's usually, in my book, a point against it. But Sinister, a mash-up of half a dozen other films, not only contains a few honestly terrifying jolts, it's also the rare horror movie that's just ingenious...

"From the producer of Paranormal Activity and Insidious" comes the aptly-named Sinister - a supernatural shocker that puts the heebie-jeebies up you in that woken-up-in-the-night, cold-sweat, put-the-light-on kind of way.

The new movie from director Scott Derickson ("The Exorcism of Emily Rose"), was produced by the same people who made "Paranormal Activity," and it once sported the unfortunately obvious title of "Found Footage."

Sinister is a clever little chiller that seems to be heading one way and then takes you in a quite different, and much nastier, direction.

The haunted house movie has had something of a resurgence in recent years, with Insidious and the Paranormal Activity franchise crafting original and effective spins on the popular sub-genre. And you can now add Sinister to that list, with the new...

Your pants. Do you like having them scared off you? Then you and your pants will enjoy “Sinister,” a deeply frightening horror film that takes its obligation to alarm very seriously. If this isn’t the most disquieting movie I see in 2012, I don’t know...

Children. A mysterious box. Found footage. A large spooky home. Ingredients essential to concoct a horror film, especially when expanded, the narrative grew to include the occult, fiendish looking symbols, and the perennial boogie man.

For all of its foreboding, shadowy atmosphere and jump-from-the-dark scare moments, Scott Derrickson’s Sinister is at its core the story of a Faustian bargain—and you know those never turn out well.

Ellison Oswalt might be the first horror movie character ever to have a good reason for moving into a haunted house. A true crime writer in search of his next bestseller, he thinks the story of the unsolved murders that took place in his new family...

Sinister is an effectively creepy horror movie with stunning sound design work and a superb central performance from Ethan Hawke, though it’s a little too over-reliant on its shock-tactic clichés and is one of those films where you end up...

An intense atmosphere of dread and sudden jolts from the darkness fill this compelling, disturbing supernatural shocker from The Exorcism of Emily Rose director Scott Derrickson. A skilful blend of old-school, haunted-house horror and in-vogue found...