If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

For me, this is my favourite scary/horror movie. The story is clever, and revealed at a good pace. A couple of good scares at the beginning to get you in and then the story unfolds. The ending, for me, was unexpected. Other reviews have revealed the plot so all I can say is, if you want to see something different in the genre, see this. Don't confuse it with the sequel though.

By far the scariest movie i've ever seen, and i've seen my fair share. The director does not use overwhelming gore or cheesy jump-scares to get to you. The super 8 films seen in the movie seem so real you can't take you eyes off the screen. Very well done, engaging, and a good story. This move stuck with me for a good long while after seeing it.

Sinister has a new different approach to a Horror film, in that its a little more reality based, but with supernatural add-ins.Visually it's pretty dark and a little hard to make out at times, but it works and is worthy of a viewing!

I probably shouldn't have watched this the evening after seeing The Conjuring as there are similarities and that film is a much more confident and fundamentally scary movie. I understand Ethan Hawke was not only very keen to play this role but also recommended Juliet Rylance as his wife. I don't think Hawke is really up to this role which is a difficult one as he has to play by himself for much of the time. Neither do I feel there is any rapport between the two. I did like the unusual score, I loved the opening and closing credits (which really are creepy) and felt that the children were effective. Being an old 8mm buff myself, I much enjoyed the playing with these found films and the whole exciting business of editing. I was also most impressed with the 'Skype' sequences when Hawke gets to hear the views of an eccentric university professor. I thought these scenes were amazingly well done and that the film caught fire during these sequences. If only the whole film could have been run at this same tempo and level of weirdness, because it did have the potential to be as scary as The Conjuring.