Ellison a renowned journalist, uproots his family in pursuit of his next big story. When he discovers a box of old home movies in the attic, he realizes this grisly footage could be the basis of his greatest book yet ? but only if he can piece together the string of murders these films present… Obviously, no matter how good it is, a horror film should be scary. Also no matter how well the special effects are done, a good horror film has to have a good story that makes sense to the audience. Many supernatural-horror films like <Sinister> are produced from Hollywood each year, but many of them turn out to be flops and fail miserably in the box office because they don’t follow those two simple rules. Fortunately, <Sinister> fulfills the both. It has a very interesting story, and the director knows how to scare the people. That is good enough for the horror film goers. Hot off the success of Insidious, Jason Blum and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones team up with acclaimed genre director Scott Derrickson on his thrilling new horror project.