Sinister

Sinister is a very good horror film. It’s actually a modern horror that is actually scary. This film is very disturbing though and if is definitely not for young children. There is hanging, drowning, etc. But it’s ok for mature 13 year olds.

Sinister (2012) is a horror film in which true crime writer Ellison discovers a box of Super 8 tapes in the house of a murder scene where 4 people where hung, and a child went missing. The tapes contain violent and grisly images which soon bein to consume his life. In this review, i'll be going over 5 sections of mature content in detail: VIOLENCE: The violence in the film is grisly and extremely disturbing, and usually only takes place when the protagonist watches the killing tapes. 4 people are shown with bags on their heads and tied by their necks to trees as the branch holding them to the ground is cut, sending the family into the air and suspending them. They are hung. The tape is shown nearly 10 times or more throughout the film, sometimes in slow motion and sometimes regularly. Pictures are also shown with the corpses of the family having rope burns of their necks. The scene is especially upsetting because the family is shown prosperous before the scene cuts to the hanging. In another scene, a happy family is shown fishing, then it cuts to them tied up inside of a car bound with chains surrounded by cans of gasoline, then the car explodes with them inside. Several people are tied to reclined pool chairs connected to rope. Then, they are each pulled backwards into the pool and drown. A hidden cameraman creeps around a house and slits the throats of an entire family in bed. Each one is individual, and it shows an exceptional amount of blood. Later, we see another closeup image of a person with their throat slit briefly, however this scene is very disturbing. In another Super 8 film, a lawn mower suddenly runs over a child on the grass, however it is cut out as soon as it hits him. Compared to the rest of the movie, this is mild. At the very end, a man is shopped with an axe, but the screen cuts out when its about to hit him. The killer then records walking through their house covered and splattered in their families blood. A drawing is later shown showing the family chopped up into pieces, implying full dismemberment. The scenes are extremely disturbing and always accompanied with eerie, twisted music. The film is entirely dark and shot in a pitch dark room and an enclosed home. LANGUAGE: Very mild language is heard very infrequently throughout. Some infrequent use of "Hell" and "Damn" with one or more uses of "Sh*t" in an argument. The expletive "F*ck" is also mouthed ever so slightly as well, as the protagonist argues with his wife, however its also impossible to hear and its tough to tell if he's even mouthing it. DRUG/ALCOHOL/TOBACCO USE: The main character drinks whisky in pretty much every super 8 scene, and he is also hnted at being drunk often (almost every scene in the movie takes place analyzing the super 8 films). The victims of the murders where drugged, and a person in the movie is drugged as well who wakes up tied and bound. SEXUAL CONTENT: None, brief kissing FRIGHTENING SCENES: Easily one of the most disturbed and twisted horror films, nit for the faint hearted. MY RATING: R for prolonged sequences of disturbing images and content