Sinister

Saw this film today called "Sinister" starring Ethan hawke. It's about a writer played by actor Ethan Hawke who moves into a new house with his wife and two children. Upon exploring the attic upstairs he finds an old movie projector along with some 8mm film reels he assumes was left behind by the previous occupants. As he watches these archive films alone he is disturbed by the images he sees, familes being tortured and killed and the dates marked on the reels. As he explores the films in details further he discovers they all share something in common, missing children!!!

These children he laters discovers were alledgedly possessed into killing their own familes by a strange image who appears in all of these 8mm films. According to one expert, a professor he spoke with online, this symbol is associated with a pagen deity who early christians called Bagoul. These early christians believed that this demon named Bagoul consumed the souls of children and lived in the images themselves and that these images were gateways into his realm Thus the more he investigates the more strange things begin to happen to him and his family. The lights go out, and he hears things, their son has nightmares and wakes up in places other than his own bed, It takes a while at first for the fear to set in, as most of the fear is investigative at first, but it's mostly psychological, at least through the eyes of the town police who blames the writer for being under the infulence while attepmting to work on a new book. However, the fear becomes more deadly when the ghosts of these missing children begin appearing before himself and his family in their home.
Eventually he tells his wife that the house they moved into had previous tenants who were hung in the back yard! She argues with him insisting she wants to take the kids and move out, but he hesitates because he wants another successful novel. Then he soon changes his mind the night he finds these missing children in his attic along with the demon and has had enough! That last straw which forces him to make take all the film evidence, projector and all, and set it on fire. He tells his wife to take the kids and get the hell out, and they leave thinking it's all behind them.
You may as well be setting an ouija board on fire because that only makes matters worse, as he finds out the hard way when the family moves into a new home, and then the real horror begins! This film is creepy, and I find it more of a psychological fear than anything else, but it still has a few scenes that will make you jump. A great trick more than a treat for halloween if you dare to sit in thr front row, go check it out!!!. :-)