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Sinister is a 2012 American supernatural horror film
directed by Scott Derrickson and written by Derrickson
and C. Robert Cargill. It stars Ethan Hawke as
fictional true-crime writer Ellison Oswalt who discovers a box of home movies
in his attic that puts his family in danger.
Plot
The
film opens with Super 8 footage depicting a family of four
standing beneath a tree with sacks over their heads and nooses around their
necks. An unseen figure saws through a branch acting as a counterweight,
causing their deaths by hanging.
Months
later, true crime writer Ellison Oswalt (Ethan Hawke)
moves into the murdered family's home with his wife, Tracy (Juliet
Rylance), and their two children, 7-year-old Ashley (Clare Foley),
an artist who is allowed to paint on her walls, and 12-year-old Trevor (Michael
Hall D'Addario), who begins re-experiencing bizarre night terrors upon
moving into their new home. Only Ellison is aware that the house they are
moving into was the crime scene from the opening scene. Ellison intends to use
the case of the murdered family as the basis for his new book, and hopes that
his research will reveal the fate of the Stevenson family's fifth member, a
10-year-old girl named Stephanie who disappeared following the murders.
Ellison
finds a box (along with a black scorpion) in the attic that contains a
projector and several reels of Super 8 mm footage that are each labeled as
innocent home movies. Ellison discovers that the films
are actually snuff films depicting different families
being murdered in various ways: being tied to sunbeds and drowned in their pool
(Pool Party '66), being bound and gagged and burned to death in a car (BBQ
'79), being run over by a lawn mower (Lawn Work '86), being bound
and gagged and having their throats slit in bed (Sleepy Time '98), and
the hanging from the opening of the film (Family Hanging Out '11). The
drowning film is especially disturbing for Ellison when he notices the face of
a demonic figure
watching the drownings from the bottom of the pool. Ellison eventually finds
the demonic figure throughout all the films along with a strange painted
symbol. Upon inspecting the lid of the box containing the films, and a snake,
Ellison discovers childish drawings depicting the murders, along with crude
sketches of the demonic figure, called "Mr. Boogie."
Consulting
a local deputy (James Ransone), Ellison discovers that the
murders depicted in the films took place at different times, beginning in the
1960s, and in different cities across the country. He also learns that some of
the families were drugged before being killed, and that a child from each
family went missing following every murder. The deputy refers Ellison to a
local professor, Jonas (Vincent D'Onofrio), whose expertise is the occult and
demonic phenomena, to decipher the symbol in the films. Jonas tells Ellison
that the symbols are that of a pagan Babylonian deity
named Bughuul (Nick King), who would kill entire families and then take one of
their children into his realm in order to consume his/her soul.
One
night, Ellison spots Bughuul in the bushes and rushes outside, armed with a
baseball bat, only to find Trevor, having experienced yet another night terror
and rushes him back inside. Ellison returns outside to retrieve his bat when he
encounters a black rottweiler. The dog sees the missing children standing behind
Ellison, causing the dog to flee out of fear. The second night, Ellison hears a
noise within the home and investigates, again armed with his bat, being plagued
by the missing children in various states of decay. After Ellison checks in on
Ashley and leaves, Stephanie is shown in front of Ashley, painting her family's
murder with Bughuul. The third night, Ellison hears the film projector running
and goes up to the attic. There, he finds the missing children watching one of
the films. Bughuul suddenly appears on camera before physically appearing
before Ellison. Ellison takes the camera and the films to the backyard and
burns them. His recently awakened wife meets him outside and he tells her that
they're moving back to their old house immediately.
At
his old home, Ellison receives a message from Professor Jonas, who sends him
scans of historical images associated
with Bughuul; the images have been partially destroyed by the early
Christians, who believed that images of Bughuul served as a gateway
for the demon to come from the spiritual realm to the mortal world; the images
include the symbol from the murders along with a scorpion, a snake, and a black
beast. According to Professor Jonas, people, especially children, who saw the
images of Bughuul could be possessed and even abducted into the images. Ellison
discovers the projector and films in his attic, along with a new envelope of
film labeled "extended cut endings". During this time, the
deputy tries calling several times, but Ellison never answers. The next time
the deputy calls, while Ellison is assembling the films, he finally answers.
The deputy informs him that he has discovered a link between the murders: every
family had previously lived in the house where the last murder took place, and
each new murder occurred shortly after the family moved from the crime scene
into their new residence. By moving, Ellison has placed himself and his family
in line to be the next victims.
Ellison
watches the footage, and finds that it depicts the missing children coming
onscreen following each murder, revealing themselves to be the killers,
apparently under Bughuul's possession before suddenly disappearing. Before he
can react, Ellison becomes light-headed, and upon inspection of his coffee cup,
he notices a bright green liquid mixed with the coffee and finds a note reading
"Good Night, Daddy" before losing consciousness. Ashley appears
behind Ellison, revealing herself to be the drugger, under Bughuul's
possession. Ellison awakens to find himself, Tracy and Trevor bound and gagged.
Ashley approaches holding the 8 mm camera, and promises him that she will
make him famous again. Ashley then decapitates Tracy with an axe before going
on to kill Elison and Trevor, using their blood to paint images of cats, dogs
and unicorns on the walls. With her work complete, Ashley views the Super-8
film of her murders, which concludes with an image of the missing children
watching her. Bughuul appears, causing the children to flee in fear. He then
lifts Ashley into his arms and disappears into the film with her.
The
film concludes with an image of the box of films in the Oswalt family's attic,
now accompanied by Ashley's reel, labeled "House Painting '12".
The camera slowly pans away from the box, until Bughuul appears onscreen and
the screen cuts out.
Cast
- Ethan
Hawke as Ellison Oswalt
- Juliet
Rylance as Tracy Oswalt
- Fred
Thompson as Sheriff (credited as "Fred Dalton
Thompson")
- James
Ransone as Deputy So & So
- Clare
Foley as Ashley Oswalt
- Michael
Hall D'Addario as Trevor Oswalt
- Vincent D'Onofrio (uncredited)
as Professor Jonas
- Victoria
Leigh as Stephanie Stevenson / Family Hanging Out Girl
- Cameron
Ocasio as BBQ Boy
- Ethan
Haberfield as Pool Party Boy
- Danielle
Kotch as Lawn Work Girl
- Blake
Mizrahi as Christopher Miller / Sleepy Time Boy
- Nick King
as Bughuul / "Mr. Boogie"
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