Sinister

United States of America, 2012

Film

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Found footage helps a true-crime novelist realize how and why a family was murdered in his new home, though his discoveries put his entire family in the path of a supernatural entity.

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Credits

director

Scott Derrickson

costume design

Abby O'Sullivan

producer

Brian Kavanaugh-Jones

Jason Blum

production company

Alliance Films

Automatik Entertainment

Blumhouse Productions

IM Global

Possessed Pictures

Summit Entertainment

production design

David Brisbin

screenplay

C. Robert Cargill

Duration

01:50:00

Production places
United States of America
Production dates
2012

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

tmdb-movie-82507

Language

English

Subject categories

Horror

Mystery

Thriller

TMDB-Movie

82507

Wikidata

Q761519

Collected

174 times

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