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Sinister
2012
· Movie
· 110 min
C
MEANRANK
65/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3148
- IMDb #2570
- Google retired #2933
- Rotten Tomatoes #2906
- Metacritic #2736
- Letterboxd #2572
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3105
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3207
- Metacritic Critics #3115
- Metacritic Audience #1873
- Criticker #2260
- Douban #1747
- Kinopoisk #3497
- AlloCiné #1766
- Trakt #2301
Every rating
43–76
out of 100
A true-crime writer moves his family into a house where a horrific murder once took place, hoping to find inspiration for his next book. In the attic, he discovers a box of home movies that depict a series of gruesome family murders. As he investigates the films, he begins to notice disturbing and supernatural occurrences within his own home.
Details
- Director
- Scott Derrickson
- Writers
- C. Robert Cargill, Scott Derrickson
- Released
- 4 October 2012
- Country
- Canada, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $3.0M
- Box office
- $82.5M
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