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I was so disappointed with this sequel, but I went in with low expectations from what I viewed in the trailers.
When I first saw Sinister back in 2012 I knew very little about it except it appeared as a ghost story starring Ethan Hawke. I was blown away by the 8mm films in the movie and thought the first half of the movie was terrifying and intense. It all started going downhill for me after that seen where Bughuul shows up on the computer screen and then there was the ghost children and it all started to get a little hokey. I felt the ending was strong but it should have ended with the Oswalt's death and no ghost kids running around and being lame. I still left the movie scared of this entity I knew very little about and I couldn't get those 8mm films outta my mind.
Well Sinister 2 falls flat on everything that made Sinister so unnerving. The whole movie is those ghost kids running around and being lame and Bughuul is basically hanging out in every scene waiting for someone to notice him. There was no surprise with the 8mm films and the way they were shown in the movie was irritating. They kept zooming in and out of them so you could watch the kids watching them, which made them less effective. The "Fishing Trip" film could have been a great scare but I barely could see what was happening. We never even got to see the Dentist film but I suppose it doesn't matter.
I was really sad to see a sequel that could have been so much better turned into this predictable mess of a movie. I really always hoped they would do a prequel instead and maybe tie it into the first movie.
Well I guess if your scared of pale children and have to constantly see the villain then this would be a good sequel. To me it was somewhat entertaining but I couldn't believe they strayed away from what made the first film so great.
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