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DAY 29.1: Sinister 2
On Netflix

I remember where I heard that Sinister 2 was better than Sinister 1. That girl from What Culture videos who is into horror kept saying it each time Sinister was ever brought up. I kind of refuse to even take that girl's opinion seriously ever again, because WOW.

Sinister 2 is about a mother and her two sons trying to escape from their abusive father. But all the kids want one of the sons to make a spooky movie for Baghuul. Oh, and Deputy So-And-So is starring.

I'm going to start with positives. James Ransone is great as the Deputy. He needs more work. The mother was also great. They put on a compelling performance. There is also exactly one good film in this movie that may be better than all of them.

Okay, I'm done with positives.

This movie makes me mad because it is so inferior in every way to the point is actually almost degrades the original. And it's actually super simple. They take away all the mystery and weirdness of the original movie and what actually happens. They outright show kids making the videos along the way, they have the creepy ghost kids chilling with the children to make them watch the movies, they show the children trying to manipulate the kids.

Then they have these idiotic dream sequences and stuff showing oh ho ho if I made the film then I guess this is what it would be like.

And then the plot with the family is just not interesting, especially with the shit children. Like fuck. What are you doing? The reason the original was so good was because it was so tight and confined on the father that you didn't even focus on anything else that would have seemed stupid otherwise.

And good lord as you get towards the end you see every step of creating the murder video and it's just like god damn this sucks and then it's just... chase sequences? And then suddenly stops being a cryptic murder scene of the family?

And the conclusion is just... sad, doesn't make sense, and they could have done so much more with it. It blows my mind this is their choice. And I was like "Well who wrote this shit?" It was the same writers of the first movie! No doubt being told "Shit out another film" and they were just baffled what to do. But I still think they could have done something else.

Other aspects is that the filming isn't as tight. It's just not. The director wasn't nearly as good as Scott Derrickson and he was trying to make this like every other mainstream horror you've ever seen and it just weakens the original which is almost claustrophobic and unsettling (again by showing EVERYTHING).

And the soundtrack is AWFUL. We have the soundtrack from the first that created such a mood at all times and it really enhanced the movie. In this one it's just... so much worse. I can't begin to describe it. But it's jarring when, towards the end, they take a song from the first one and it feels so out of place. Why not keep with that style of music before?

This movie is a mess, exposes all of the interesting mystery of the original, and does everything worse than the original. It SUCKS. I give it points for Deputy So-And-So and Mother and the one good film. But it's just such a let down from the first.

Rating: 2/10

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