Sinister (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Sinister |
| Original title | Sinister |
| Country of production | USA , UK |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Scott Derrickson |
| script |
C. Robert Cargill Scott Derrickson |
| production |
Jason Blum Brian Kavanaugh-Jones |
| music | Christopher Young |
| camera | Chris Norr |
| cut | Frédéric Thoraval |
| occupation | |
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Sinister (English "ominous", long title: Sinister - If you see him, you are already lost ) is a horror film released in 2012 by the American director Scott Derrickson . The script was also written by Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill . It premiered at the London FrightFest Film Festival on August 26, 2012. The cinema premiere for Germany was November 22, 2012. The sequel Sinister 2 was released on August 21, 2015.
action
The writer Ellison Oswalt, plagued by financial problems, moves with his wife and children into a smaller house in which a family was killed in an unknown way some time ago. Ellison tries to use this unsolved crime to write a new bestseller to get some cash back.
Shortly after moving in, he found a box in the attic of the house that contained a Super 8 projector and associated films with labels. All of these films first show secret shots of families, each with children, mother and father, then you can see how they are cruelly murdered - except for one of the children. It is not clear from the material who committed and films the deeds. During his research, with which a deputy later helps him, he comes across a mysterious figure with a mask that appears in every film. An occult symbol can also be seen in every film. After the helping deputy tells him to ask a professor about the signs, Oswalt finds out that they belong to an ancient pagan cult. This cult worships a Sumerian demon named Bughuul who feeds on children's souls. Once you have seen this demon, you can no longer escape it. Furthermore, this demon probably lives in the pictures and records in which it appears. Ellison finds the Super 8 projector running several times during the night, even though he had locked it away; he hears footsteps in the attic, finds a snake in the attic, a dog in the garden and his son's night fears are increasing again.
When he looks at the attic in his house one night full of mysterious events, he sees several children there looking at one of the murder cases. They are the children of the families who have not been murdered. They turn around, put their fingers on their lips and the eerie figure suddenly appears in front of Oswalt's face. After he was so frightened that he fell from the attic, he burned the Super 8 projector and the films and escaped with his family that same night to his old house, which he had not yet sold.
There Oswalt surprisingly finds the box with the films and the Super 8 projector that he burned in the attic. In contrast to the previous film roles, however, these show the respective murderers at the end. It is the supposedly spared children themselves. During a phone call with the deputy, he learns that each of the murdered families had previously lived in a house in which one of the other families was previously murdered, and now Ellison and his family are from one too these houses moved. After hearing this, Ellison hangs up and takes a sip of coffee, which he falls unconscious because his daughter has put sleeping pills on her. After Oswalt wakes up, we see him, his wife and son lying tied up on the floor and his daughter filming them with a Super 8 camera as if in a trance. She kills him, her mother and her brother with an ax. In the last few shots you can see how the mysterious figure from the films carries the daughter into the current film of the murder of her own family.
criticism
"An overloaded horror film that crams its plot with genre stereotypes and also puts an end to the few original approaches with a pesky film score."
"Truly terrifying horror film that, despite the found footage borrowings, is more reminiscent of ' Shining ' than of the ' Paranormal Activity ' series and consistently gets under your skin right up to the last second."
“Some of the things about this film don't quite work, admittedly. [...] Also, as in many story-driven horror films, the arrangement breaks down quite thoroughly shortly before the end. Otherwise, however, the film keeps the balance between Oswalt's investigation (in which a local policeman who is played by the great James Ransone, who is known from ' The Wire ' among others ) and torn terror scenes whipped up by a hammer-hard electro-score, into which one as a spectator is literally clamped in like a film strip in a projector. "
"The incredibly dense atmosphere and a committed leading actor make Scott Derrickson's work a potent cinematic shocker despite some weaknesses"
Web links
- Sinister in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Sinister at rotten tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Sinister . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2013 (PDF; test number: 135 023 K).
- ↑ a b Sinister on Filmstarts.de, accessed on December 21, 2012
- ↑ Sinister. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Criticism at Perlentaucher.de , Lukas Foerster: Politics of the accident , November 22, 2011; Retrieved December 21, 2012
- ↑ Kinokritik Sinister (2012) , by Bastian Glodnick on filmfutter.com