Sinister (2012 franchise)
Sinister (2012), Sinister 2 (2015)
Summary
"Once you see him, nothing can save you." An obscure and terrifying ancient Babylonian demon amuses itself in the present day by tormenting vulnerable families, demanding child sacrifices, and leaving horrifying home movies and images depicting its atrocities....
Details
- Release Date: 2012-2015
- Country/Language: US/UK, English
- Genres/Technical: Horror, Thriller, Mystery
- Starring: Nicholas King, Ethan Hawke, Juliet Rylance, James Ransone; James Ransone, Shannyn Sossamon, Robert Daniel Sloan
- Director: Scott Derrickson; Ciarán Foy
- Writer: Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill
- Producer/Production Co: Alliance Films, IM Global, Blumhouse Productions; Entertainment One, IM Global, Blumhouse Productions
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Ratings
MPAA Ratings
- Rated: R (Violence, Profanity, Adult Content)
Tentacle Ratings
A rough measure of how "Lovecraftian" the work is:
- S____ (One Tentacle: Debateably Lovecraftian; has almost no direct connection to Lovecraft's work)
The film series itself is not heavily Lovecraftian, though it seems the "Bughuul Mythos" is close enough in spirit to easily incorporate it; members of the forums at Yog-Sothoth.com have done so through the more explicitly "Lovecraftian" entity known as Bugg-Shash, for example.
Note: This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.
Reviews
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Synopsis
Spoiler Section (Highlight to Read)
- SINISTER (2012) - Washed-up true-crime writer Ellison Oswalt finds a box of super 8 home movies that suggest the murder he is currently researching is the work of a serial killer whose work dates back to the 1960s.
- SINISTER 2 (2015) - A young mother and her twin sons move into a rural house that's marked for death.
Notes
Comments, Trivia, Dedication
- "It's a symbol associated with the worship of a pagan deity. A very obscure one dating back to Babylonian times named Bughuul, the Eater of Children. The crimes that you're dealing with, they all have the element of a missing child, correct? Well, Bughuul eats children. Now, the fragments of stories that have survived, they all revolve around him needing the souls of human children to survive. Now each story involves a different way that he lures or tricks these children away from the physical world and traps them in his own nether world and he consumes their souls over time. Now any worship of this deity would include a blood sacrifice or the wholesale eating of a child." - Professor Jonas, describing Bughuul
Associated Mythos Elements
- tome: the home movies, children's drawings, obscure mythology books and other materials
- race: Human Cultists
- race: Ghosts
- deity: Bughuul, AKA Bagul or Mr. Boogie (compare to Bugg-Shash)
- location: Netherworld, a place separate from the "physical world" into which Bughuul lures and traps children and consumes them over time
- symbol: an odd sigil or symbol seems to be associated with the cult of Bughuul
