Sinister 2

Not half as terrifying as Norwegian black metal, but still one of the better found footage-gimmicked sequels in recent memory.

There comes a point when you have to say no to these horror sequels. There's no skill or idea visible anywhere, just the sound of money being sucked from your pockets.

Ransone's tone-deaf performance helps validate this knuckleheaded story's portrait of cinema as a potential gateway to pain and suffering.

"I don't want to watch any more," declares terrorised youth Dylan. We know exactly how he feels.

Like Roger Corman's The Pit and the Pendulum, Sinister 2 cheerfully tries to make sense of where sadism springs from.

Creepy kids and sick jokes make for meager scares, but Ransone is likable as the film's beleaguered hero.

...a profound mess of a movie.

Overall, this is D-level material, and the only genuine shock it delivers is that it didn’t debut on VOD or Netflix.

Not scary enough to be called a horror film, it isn't funny enough, intentionally anyway, to be a comedy.

Sinister 2 takes imagery and devices that you've seen before, and makes them feel even more worn down and cliché that they were already.