Sinister
Cert 15, 110 mins
**
It's better acted than most horror films, and better scripted and directed too, but Scott Derrickson (writer-director of The Exorcism of Emily Rose) hasn’t come up with an original moment in this supernatural tale.
Ethan Hawke plays a crime writer who travels about America finding out about unsolved murders. He moves his reluctant family (Juliet Rylance and Clare Foley) into a suburban house, where he finds a batch of home movies in the attic which proclaim a family of four has been hanged from a tree in the garden. As things go bump in the night he begins to realise that his own family looks likely to suffer a similar fate.
When Christopher Young’s score isn’t buzzing like a demented bee, its loud bangs are the perfect wake-up call.
