Ellison then suddenly falls down a hole in the attic, thus slightly injuring his leg. Following the noises, Ellison finds a mysterious drawing in a child-like manner, which depicts the murders and a strange figure of 'Mr Boogie' standing next to the victims. One night, when Ellison's family are away, the power shuts down and he hears strange noises in the attic. Ellison notes the appearance of a mysterious semi-circular symbol in the films as well as a strange masked figure. Each murder is performed by an unseen person holding a camera and filming the killings. Ellison discovers that the films are actually murder footage depicting different families being murdered in various ways, including hanging, drowning, throat-cutting, and arson. Later that night Ellison discovers in a box a screaming Trevor, who was having a night terror.Įllison finds a box in the attic that contains a projector and several reels of Super 8 mm footage that are each labeled as home movies. Ellison intends to use the case of the murdered family as the basis for his new book and hopes that his research will reveal the fate of the Stevenson family's fifth member, a 10-year-old girl named Stephanie who disappeared following the murders. Unbeknownst to Ellison's family, he has moved into a home where a family was murdered, all hanged by ropes on a tree in the backyard. A decade earlier Ellison's book Kentucky Blood was a best seller but he has struggled to make an impact with subsequent works.

True crime writer Ellison Oswalt moves into a home with his wife Tracy, their 12-year-old son Trevor, and their 7-year-old daughter Ashley. The film was released on Octoand premiered at the SXSW festival. Sinister is a 2012 supernatural horror film directed by Scott Derrickson, and written by C.

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