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Found footage helps a true-crime novelist realize how and why a family was murdered in his new home, though his discoveries put his entire family in the path of a supernatural entity.
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80
Variety
The scares are not just intense but unyielding in this compelling horror yarn from "The Exorcism of Emily Rose" director Scott Derrickson.
80
Village Voice
Hawke's taut performance - lightly parodying his own career doldrums while playing an egotistical hack who's a close cousin of John Cassavetes's self-loathing actor in Rosemary's Baby - is totally credible.
75
The movie makes up for uneven dialogue and pacing issues through sheer horrific imagery.
75
I knew perfectly well, after a while, what Sinister was going to scare me with. But I got scared anyway.
70
Occasionally stupid (stretching even fright-flick conventions) but scary nonetheless, the picture should please horror fans.
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