Sinister

After a promising start in Dead Poets Society, Ethan Hawke’s career floundered in mediocrity and his name is associated with banal thrillers or dramas that miss the mark. However, Sinister is a way-better-than-average film for him, a stylish and not altogether unbelievable supernatural horror story.

True crime writer Ellison Oswalt (Hawke) moves his family to a murder house for his latest book, hoping to recapture the success of his one big hit. When he finds a box of homemade snuff films in the attic, he hopes he will pen another popular bestseller.

It all ends in tears of course as his son develops somnambulistic night terrors and his daughter starts talking to dead girls and creating disturbing paintings. In a scene straight out of

The Amityville Horror, Ellison destroys the movies, packs everyone up and flees into the night. But will moving to another house be enough? —