Horror movies can be a very complicated business for the very simple reason that fear is always so subjective. One person can see something and it barely elevates their heart rate, but that same movie can cause someone else to lose sleep for days on end.
Having said that, we can all agree the first Sinister was genuinely scary, right? Even if the story of a crime novelist who moves his family into a murdered family's house so that he can write his big comeback book doesn't get to you, director Scott Derrickson's scares are so well crafted they have to garner some kind of physiological response while watching them. Anyone who says otherwise is a bit of a fibber.
Now having said that, Sinister 2 (in theaters August 21) director Ciarán Foy certainly has his work cut out for him (Derrickson is producing and cowriting with the first's C. Robert Cargill, but not directing). As you can see from the below teaser trailer for the sequel, the groundwork looks promising.
It's hard to tell from that brief teaser, but the story this time around involves a mom (Shannyn Sossamon) moving her two young boys into an old farm house, oblivious to the fact that doing so has moved them right into the path of Bughuul. Deputy So-and-So (James Ransone) from the first movie has figured this out, though, and now he's going to do everything he can to save them from the grim fate he's now seen firsthand.
So... did it make you jump?
