Clickonline writes: "Blumhouse-which also worked on the likes of the Paranormal Activity series, Insidious and The Purge, knows how to make a success out of a tiny project and bringing in a fledgling director means they can cut costs even more."
Halloween is just around the corner and with the horror of Covid 19 still haunting us, throw your trick or treating plans out the window and instead, stay home, put on some scary movies and scream to your heart’s content. There are a million and one horror movies to catch, but we’ve assembled some of the most heart-palpitation inducing ones. We’ve even included a scream-o-metre to help you decide which to watch.
Dana Abercrombie from Filmtakeout writes:
"One cannot just blame the acting or lack of a chemistry test on the downfall of this film. The script is most deserving of that praise. Watching Sinister 2 is like watching two separate films thrown together by generic tape, the glue most likely made by Stevie Wonder. While managing to be a rather decent murder mystery focusing on finding out what happened in the church, it is an embarrassing abysmal horror film that, instead of eliciting fear, makes you laugh with one-liners like, “that’s the end of your film!”"
Christopher Cross of Infinite Respawns writes: I never wanted a sequel to 2012’s Sinister – it never really warranted one either, I found. There was maybe a couple more things I could imagine illuminating in its mythology, but it never felt like something I needed to find out. Sinister 2 sounds great behind-the-scenes, though. Maintaining the writing team of Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill ideally leaves the series in a place where it will iterate as opposed to repeat. Keeping James Ransone on board as the one character that has a personal connection to the events of the first film is smart, if also a little bit of a stretch. Most importantly, a director who has proven himself with paranoid characters (Ciaran Foy) gets to tackle an already established franchise and put his stamp on it. Sinister 2 has all these hopes attached to it, but still manages to feel slight, and at times, illogical.
