sinister is a 2012 supernatural horror film directed by Scott Derrickson and written by C. Robert Cargill and Derrickson. It stars Ethan Hawke as a struggling true-crime writer whose discovery of videos depicting grisly murders in his new house puts his family in danger. Juliet Rylance, Fred Thompson, James Ransone, Clare Foley, and Michael Hall D'Addario appear in supporting roles.

Sinister was inspired by a nightmare Cargill had after watching the 2002 film The Ring.^[6] Principal photography on Sinister began in Autumn of 2011 in Long Island, NY with a production budget of $3 million.^[4] To add to the authenticity of old home movies and snuff films, the Super 8 segments were shot on actual Super 8 cameras and film stock.^[7] The film was a co-production between the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

The film premiered at the SXSW festival on March 10, 2012.^[8] It was released in the United Kingdom on October 5, 2012, and in the United States on October 12. Sinister was praised by critics for its acting, direction, cinematography, and atmosphere, but received criticism for its use of jump scares and other horror clichés. The film was a box office success, grossing $87.7 million against its budget of $3 million.^[5] In the years since its release, the film has developed a reputation for its scariness and became a cult classic. A 2020 study by Broadband Choices named Sinister the scariest film ever made based on an analysis of viewer heart rates.

A sequel was released in 2015.

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Married couple Josh and Renai Lambert, their sons Dalton and Foster, and infant daughter Cali, have recently moved into a new home. One day, Dalton inexplicably falls into a coma.

After three months of treatment without result, Renai and Josh take Dalton home. The family starts to experience disturbing paranormal events. Renai begins hearing voices over the baby monitor when no one is in Cali's room, Foster says that Dalton sleepwalks at night, and Renai sees a frightening figure in Cali's room. After Renai is attacked by the figure, the Lamberts decide to move, believing the house to be haunted.

In the new house, however, the supernatural activity continues. Josh's mother Lorraine arrives and is terrified when she sees a red-faced demon behind Josh. She calls Elise Rainier, a psychic, and her paranormal investigators Specs and Tucker.^[7] In Dalton's room, Elise sees the same red-faced demonic figure that Lorraine saw.

Elise explains that Dalton is not in a coma; he was born with the ability to astral travel, and had been unknowingly doing so in his sleep, probably believing he was dreaming. This time he has travelled too far and has been captured in a purgatory realm called "The Further", a place inhabited by the tortured souls of the dead. Without his mental presence, his body is comatose but spirits desire to use it so they can enter the physical world.

Elise performs a seance to communicate with Dalton and the demon possesses Dalton's body and attacks the group before being stopped by Elise. She explains that she's known Lorraine for decades, and had previously helped Josh when he was eight years old. It is revealed that Josh also possesses the ability to astral project, though he had suppressed his memory of it years ago. Elise had helped him protect himself from the parasitic spirit of an evil old woman that wanted to possess him. The only way to rescue Dalton is for Josh to go into The Further and save him.

Elise puts Josh in a trance and he is able to project to their previous house. He fights off a spirit and enters the Demon's lair, where he finds Dalton chained. He frees him, but they are chased by the demon while the spirits of the Further invade the real world and terrorize Elise, Renai, and the others. After escaping, Josh confronts the old woman that haunted him as a child, trying once and for all to overcome his fears. The old woman dissolves and when Josh and Dalton return to their bodies, the spirits have all disappeared.

The family celebrates their victory but Elise senses that something is amiss about Josh. When she snaps a photo of him, Josh becomes enraged and strangles her to death. Renai is horrified when she discovers Elise's dead body and even more so when she sees the photo Elise took. The photo reveals that Josh is now the evil woman from his childhood; she possessed him when he confronted her in the Further.

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