Sinister arrived this weekend to start the Halloween month off with a good scare. The possession movie gave moviegoers one of the best horror movie experiences in recent time. If you haven't watched the movie, beware that major spoilers are going to be revealed in this spoiler post. Sinister spoilers follow below.
***Movie Spoiler***
Ellison moves into a murder home with his family. He is a crime novelist who wrote Kentucky Blood. His two books following Kentucky Blood failed to capture an audience. Ellison desperately needed a hit to relaunch his career. He risked his family and his safety to move into home involved in a murder crime.
Four family members were hanged and one girl went missing. Ellison pieces together the clues to organize the sequence of events. He discovers a movie box up in the attic. Ellison watches the Super 8 movies, which the first film opens with four people hanging on a tree. He compiles the evidence to plot the case.
Ellison investigates too far into the case. He finds a strange figure in the drawings. In the drawings, the children identify the unknown figure as a monster. We learn this evil entity standing in a specific location is Bagul, a Pagan deity known as a Christian demon.
Bagul's history goes back to the Babylonian times. He is referred as the eater of children. Bagul consumes children souls to strengthen his powers.
Every time Ellison disposes of the film footage, the movie box returns to the attic again. Ellison explains his strange encounters with the Deputy. The Deputy believes in the occult, metaphysical and supernatural. He claims he would never live in the home knowing that another family died there.
The Deputy asks Ellison if his wife knows about the murders. Ellison tells the Deputy she doesn't know. The Deputy is shocked and surprised to discover the wife is left out in the dark. It is a discussion he would want to avoid. The Deputy refers Ellison to a local professor that deals with religious studies.
Ashley drew a picture of the dead girl on the wall. The dead girl tells Ashley that her father is writing a book on the murder case. This is when things begin to go haywire. Ellison's wife finds out about the murders. They have a big fight concerning the motivation behind the book and the strange events. It is learned that Trevor has drawn pictures of the dead family hanging on the tree.
The groups of children are afraid of Bagul. We see the children running around the home, albeit Ellison can't see them in physical form. Ellison climbs up into the attic to find the dead kids watching the film. They put their fingers up to their mouth to hush him, implying they're each hiding a secret. Ellison sees Bagul and falls down the stairs. The movie box is thrown down on the floor.
Ellison rushes outside to burn the movie box in a pit of fire. He yells at his wife to gather the children right away. They leave the home as quickly as possible. The Sheriff pulls Ellison over for speeding. Nonetheless, the Sheriff lets Ellison go since he discovers there won't be any book on the murders.
Ellison and his family make the transition back into the previous home. The real secret is that we see the movie box again. The Deputy warns Ellison to be especially careful since the previous families died at the next home they moved into after leaving the disturbing homes. We realize the pattern.
The professor informed Ellison that Bagul is extremely dangerous. He shows one drawing that the last remaining copy. The Pagan belief is that Bagul can possess people through the images and drawings. Bagul possessed people to kill others. These possessed people killed their family under Bagul's command.
Ellison finds an envelope with film end cuts. He splices the ends together. This is the moment in which Ellison watches the missing children from the families commit the murders. They film the murders with a Super 8 camera. After committing the murders, the children face the camera and put their fingers up to their lips.
Ellison walks up to his desk to drink his coffee. He discovers green glowing contents. He reads a note drawn in crayon that says sweet dreams daddy. Before Ellison can comment, he falls to the ground.
Ashley walks around with a Super 8 camera. She is lugging an ax in her other hand. We realize then that Ashley will kill her family the same way. He tells her father Ellison, "Daddy, I will make you famous again" (not exact but same meaning). We hear the ax cut to black. In the hallway, blood is splattered throughout.
Ashley painted his favorite unicorn pictures in blood. We see the gruesome horror. Ashley finishes up drawing the picture of her family cut into pieces. This conveys the scene of the crime. Ashley names the last Super 8 video, "House Painting 12." All the previous films are named after a family event, though the name is a trick to make the next viewer watch the film:
- Sleep Time
- Pool Party
- Lawn Work
- BBQ
- Hanging Out
- House Painting 12
The End
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