A disappointing follow-up. It primarily lacked any kind of suspense. Go watch/re-watch the first Sinister instead.

Got some scares but the "story" almost made me sleep.

I didn't even watch this movie in theaters and I still wanted to leave.

I really liked Sinister for it's atmosphere and that most of the violence happened in your imagination and not on screen. Sinister 2 is totally different. It fails in creating the same threatening atmosphere the first movie had and tries to cover that by... making everything more graphic and brutal.

It will not become one of my favorite movies but I've certainly seen worse...

this movie annoyed me more than it scared me. stick to the first movie and ignore this

Just seen Sinister 2 and wow it was a giant piece of shit. All the kid actors sucked, the writing was shit, and it was very disappointing.

I originally wasn't going to review this movie, because I think this review is late enough and I didn't want to talk about it since I'm working on other things that I have full interest in, but then I notice very quickly that those in depth reviews many take awhile to be finished and I always want to keep updated.

A disappointing sequel, Sinister 2 lacks the intensity and suspense that made the original so compelling. After the death of the Oswalt family a former deputy turned private investigator attempts to break Bughuul’s cycle by burning down the houses of its victims to prevent him from cultivating new ones, but when he discovers a mother (played by Shannyn Sossamon) and her two sons living at a farmhouse that was one of the crime scenes he tries to find a way to save them before Bughuul can get to them. The film makes the classic mistake of over-explaining by showing how children are corrupted and turned by Bughuul (which is better left ambiguous). Also, the child actors aren’t that good, and the casting of twins (who are similar looking) as the two brothers makes things especially confusing and hard to follow. Additionally, the retconning of Bughuul to having multiple killing cycles somehow takes away his mystique and diminishes the stakes of the battle for this one family. Sinister 2 makes all the wrong moves and becomes just another cheesy horror sequel doing the same old thing.

Still a good horror movie but the first one was better.
Sinister 2 succeeded in creating a morbid atmosphere and startling me sometimes, but especially in the end it followed the typical horror movie logic that isn't logic at all. To sum it up Sinister 2 isn't outstanding but still fun to watch, even more so with friends.

i wouldn't recommend this movie to my worst enemy. well... maybe i would, but only to my worst enemy. it's that bad.

Don’t get the hate on this film in some ways I prefer it to the first definitely underrated.

5/10
This could have Been an awesome sequel
instead it was just an awful sequel.
The magic and the drive that number one carried to keep it interesting and to keep you engaged
Was absent in this movie.
All the things that made number 1 good were missing in this one and instead it just got caught up
in it's own story of domestic violence
and what not.
I'm here for the Supernatural not
for the super horrible.

VERDICT:
A boring piss-poor Imitation of number one
if number one was
made dull and boring.

I have watched the unrated version of SINISTER 2
With all the extended kill videos and with all the stuff that got cut from the movie if this version was the default version this movie would be so much better and my thoughts on this movie would be much more complimentary.

Well at least I have
SINISTER 1
AND
BLACK PHONE
to enjoy from
The Sinister Universe.

So awful!!!! The first one really hit the spot…
This one is to be forgotten, wouldn’t recommend to watch not even for sport

such a strange mix of bad decisions. the kept the bizzarre scenes of ritualized deaths of the first movie [spoiler]but who watch thoses are the kids[/spoiler], i mean wat ?? and who plays the mother is someone who makes naked scenes on ation movies. i mean shes not particularly bad its her history and therefore weak for horror movies.

I love the first movie and i heard a lot of bad stuff about this one but decided to give it a try anyway.Well all i can say is that it is a total waste of my time.