It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Sinister 1 was a massive hit and a big surprise for me, might as well say it out loud, that it found itself in my favorite horror movie list. When they announced the sequel I got really excited... I tried not to get too excited, since after all it's a Hollywood horror movie sequel and those don't do good most of the time.When it was released, it hit hard, like a truck...Terribe, just godawful script, overly exaggerated jump scares WHY. It's like they completely ignored what the first movie was about. Also, what's up with showing Bughuul like every 5 minutes. That just ruined the whole secrecy and mystery about "it". The ONLY good thing they included from the first movie was the Deputy So and So and his efforts to stop this whole cycle. But it wasn't enough to save this movie from being dogs*it, pardon my language.I heavily suggest you not to waste your time on it...

To be brief, I will say that this is a different breed of movie than its prequel. Mediocre at best, while the level of violence seems to have increased, this a terrible horror flick and a bad movie. The drama is centered around a family conflict - a mother who has run away from her violent husband in order to protect her children. The husband is relentless is his pursuit for his children. Meanwhile, the vulnerable mother meets former sheriff deputy "so and so", with whom she develops a connection of a sort. This plot is almost independent of the Bughul subplot. It's almost an excuse rather than a genuine plot. Therefore, most of the movie feels artificial; emotions are not genuine. The first movie had the excellent acting of the protagonist (and the movie pretty much centers around him), whereas this one has a goofy former deputy and a troupe of cruel ghost-children. In general, it's not just the acting that has gone down a notch, but the very denouement of such an artificial, extremely clichéd plot made the acting feel much worse than it really was. For me, besides the attempt to create faux emotions, using violence as an instrument to shock, rather than a good story, one of the worst things of this movie was that it was effectively "dumbed down". It abused of the characters to communicate the entire mystery of the Bughul entity. With no mystery, there is no horror. This is why they had to recur to more violence, increased apparitions of supernatural figures (remember in the first movie when you hardly ever saw the Bughul?) to create reactions you can't create by doing a good, intelligent movie.There's nothing "dark" and disturbing in this movie. The word "disturbing" is what comes to my mind when I think of the first movie; not for this one, in spite of the use of some similar resources. I'm horror movie veteran, so I'm not easily shocked by gore. I don't mind the clever use of film-making resources to create an atmosphere, to elicit emotional responses, and so on. But, if that's all there is to it, then there really isn't much at all.The movie is watchable. It's not a good horror movie; it doesn't have any of the attributes of a good horror movie. It's a poor excuse for a sequel. 4/10.

I really enjoyed where they tried to go with the movie. The references to Children Of The Corn were interesting and there were plenty of jumps and scares. The dialogue was cheesy at times and the whole ending could have been avoided by Deputy So and So getting the family out of the house but I was glad to see the father get what he deserved. All in all I enjoyed the movie but the ending left a lot to be desired.

I really liked the first Sinister. So much that I just recently watched it again. The original is old school horror with a proper story, good characters, great style and direction and very little if no gore. I wasn't expecting much of this sequel looking at the score here, but it was better than I thought.The story is pretty good, it's kind of continuation from the first movie and Deputy So & So is the lead this time. I think he makes a good lead character here, kind of a lone wolf. I was thinking he could easily pull off a Sinister series, either movies or TV.This sequel has a bit different feel to it, but it's still relatively low key and slow paced. The direction is good and the movie has the looks of a proper movie, it doesn't feel cheap. Unless maybe for the lack of a-list cast.The story isn't necessarily quite as gripping as the original, but the family drama is quite well put together to fill in the story. This movie also goes to explain a little how the whole bughool story got started, would've liked to have more of it as it was quite good.I found this sequel in a way more scary than the first one. The original is more of an old school drama and psychological horror, but this sequel leans more into modern horror that really makes you feel uneasy. The 16mm movies are still spooky, but they're also a lot gorier and IMO more disturbing. I prefer the original here as I'm not too much into gore. I think this would've worked with less graphic scenes just as well. There's plenty of jump scares too and sound fx to match.All in all, this is a well made horror movie. Not quite as good as the original, but definitely not as bad as it's said to be.