History NightmareFuel / Sinister

!!Sinister

!!Sinister 2

** Zach in general is unnerving from the second half of the film. While early on he was seen as an average, if angry kid, he really goes off the rocker and begins to show sociopathic levels of cruelty and assholishness, even going so far as to state that his movie would ''be the best one yet''. Talk about EnfanteTerrible.

** Zach in general is unnerving from the second half of the film. While early on he was seen as an average, if angry kid, he really goes off the rocker and begins to show sociopathic levels of cruelty and assholishness, even going so far as to state that his movie would "be the best one yet", talk about EnfanteTerrible.

* The music that plays when Ellison burns the reels and projector and during the credits, courtesy of Music/BoardsOfCanada. In the reel burning scene, you can hear high-pitched screams if you listen very closely. Also to add the films later on used ambient songs from Norway project Music/{{Ulver}}, using certain songs like ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abOFFKy6HEc this]]''.

-->'''Ellison:''' I don't believe in any... you know, stuff.
-->'''Deputy So-and-So:''' Stuff, you mean, the supernatural, the paranormal, the metaphysical, that kind of stuff?
-->'''Ellison:''' Right!
-->'''Deputy So-and-So:''' Right, of course you don't - you never would've moved into a crime scene if you did, but here we are, having this conversation...
-->'''Ellison:''' But there was... none of that... with the Stevensons?
-->'''Deputy So-and-So:''' No... in the short amount of time that the Stevensons lived here, they never called the police, they never had the police called on them, or reported anything bizarre that came up in the investigation... Do you wanna know what I think?
-->'''Ellison:''' Yes.
-->'''Deputy So-and-So:''' I think that you moved yourself into the house of murder victims, and immediately set about trying to put yourself in their head space. I also think you've begun discovering things about this case that go to darker places than you were prepared for. I also think that every time I've been to your house... there's a whiskey bottle in your office, that doesn't seem to be the slightest bit neglected - I'm not saying that you have a drinking problem... nor do I think you're making any of this up to get attention. What I do think is... you're under so much stress, you've put yourself under so much stress, that your mind is trying to process all of it at once.
-->'''Ellison:''' So you don't believe in any of that... otherworldly stuff, right?
-->'''Deputy So-and-So:'''''{solemnly concerned, and in total earnest}'' Are you kidding me? I believe in... all that stuff. I... I wouldn't sleep one night in this place, are you ''nuts''?

-->'''Ellison:''' ''{solemnly concerned, and in total earnest}'' So you don't believe in any of that... otherworldly stuff, right?
-->'''Deputy So-and-So:''' Are you kidding me? I believe in... all that stuff. I... I wouldn't sleep one night in this place, are you ''nuts''?

** Buried in snow up to their faces [[KillItWithIce to freeze to death]]. The worst is the victim who hasn't died yet, and turns her eyes toward the camera in the final shot.

** Let's see, families including young children being lifted slowly off the ground by their necks while they twitch and spasm until they're all still. This scene (and the projector that played it) came from the nightmares of writer C. Robert Cargill after he first watched the American version of ''Literature/TheRing''.
** [[KillItWithFire Tied up in a car that is lit on fire and begins rocking furiously.]]
** [[KillItWithWater Taped to lounge chairs and pulled into a pool with only their jerking feet left above.]]
** Throats slit casually while tied to their beds
** And last but not least, the ''damned lawn mower''. Not even the movie thought it was a good idea to show that particular bloodbath.

*** And we can only imagine what's on the newest tape... oh wait, Ashley was kind enough to leave some illustrations.

** On the laptop's screen, his image moved.

** Tied to a dentist's chair and their teeth get mutilated with an industrial drill.

** Tied up in a flooded basement with live wires at the ready.

** Nailed on a floor with rats being trapped under a hot container of some kind. Said rats escape by eating their way out.

*** [[spoiler: And we can only imagine what's on the newest tape... oh wait, Ashley was kind enough to leave some illustrations]].

* The implication that the horror may easily continue, because if Deputy So-and-So starts investigating the [[spoiler:killings following Ellison's death]], he'll start searching for the case and once again plastering Bughuul's face all over the wall.

* In a sudden swerve from the paranormal focus, [[spoiler: Clint]] is one of the scariest elements, [[spoiler: to the point that he counts as the film's BigBadWannabe. He's simply an abusive asshole of a husband who has ''every police officer in the state'' in his pocket, including the sheriff himself.]]
** The scene with him at the dinner table, [[spoiler: where he suddenly snaps and assaults his son when he won't eat, shoving food over his face and angrily berating him.]]
* We finally find out what happens if [[spoiler: a child fails to complete a tape, as [[EnfanteTerrible Zach]] does in the finale after Deputy So-And-So breaks his projector. Bughuul walks up behind him while he yells at the ghost children, rests a decayed hand on his shoulder, and slowly rots him away until he's nothing but a skeleton. Then he torches the house and moves on.]]
** [[spoiler: Zach]] in general is unnerving from the second half of the film. While [[spoiler: early on he was seen as an average, if angry kid]], [[spoiler: he]] really goes off the rocker and begins to show [[spoiler: sociopathic levels of cruelty and assholishness, even going so far as to state that his movie would "be the best one yet"]], talk about [[spoiler: EnfanteTerrible]].

!!Sinister

* In a sudden swerve from the paranormal focus, [[spoiler: Clint]] is one of the scariest elements, [[spoiler: to the point that he counts as the film's BigBadWannabe. He's simply an abusive asshole of a husband who has ''every police offer in the state'' in his pocket, including the sheriff himself.]]

*** Additionally, there's also that last second JumpScare, just because.
*** [[spoiler: And we can only imagine what's on the newest tape... oh wait, Ashley was kind enough to leave some illustrations]]
* The sequel's reels don't seem to be any better...
** Tied up in a flooded basement with live wires at the ready.
** Hooded and hung upside down over a swamp ''filled with gators''.
** Crucified and set on fire.
** Tied to a dentist's chair and their teeth get mutilated with an industrial drill.
** Nailed on a floor with rats being trapped under a hot container of some kind. Said rats escape by eating their way out.
** Buried in snow up to their faces [[KillItWithIce to freeze to death]]. The worst is the victim who hasn't died yet, and turns her eyes toward the camera in the final shot.

* In a sudden swerve from the paranormal focus, [[spoiler: Clint]] is one of the scariest elements of the sequel,[[spoiler: to a point he counts as the film's BigBadWannabe. He's simply an abusive asshole of a husband who has ''every police offer in the state'' in his pocket, including the sheriff himself.]]

* Also in the sequel, we finally find out what happens if [[spoiler: a child fails to complete a tape, as [[EnfanteTerrible Zach]] does in the finale after Deputy So-And-So breaks his projector. Bughuul walks up behind him while he yells at the ghost children, rests a decayed hand on his shoulder, and slowly rots him away until he's nothing but a skeleton. Then he torches the house and moves on.]]
** [[spoiler: Zach]] in general is unnerving from the second half of the film. While [[spoiler: early on he was seen as an average, if angry kid]], [[spoiler: he]] really goes off the rocker and begins to show [[spoiler: sociopathic levels of cruelty and assholish ness even going so far as to state that his movie would "be the best one yet"]], talk about [[spoiler: EnfanteTerrible]].

* In a sudden swerve from the paranormal focus, [[spoiler: Clint]] is one of the scariest elements of the sequel. [[spoiler: He's simply an abusive asshole of a husband who has ''every police offer in the state'' in his pocket, including the sheriff himself.]]

** Tied to a dentist's chair and ''something'' with what appears to be an industrial drill happens.

** [[spoiler: Zach]] in general is unnerving from the second half of the film. While [[spoiler: early on he was seen as an average, if angry kid]], [[spoiler: he]] really goes off the rocker and begins to show [[spoiler: sociopathic levels of cruelty and assholish ness]], talk about [[spoiler: EnfanteTerrible]].

** Tied to a dentist's chair and ''something'' happens.