How to Beat "Sinister" (+ Story Explained) 

Sinister is not the scariest movie, it's not the most gorey, it's not the craziest. But, for some reason, I find it so unsettling. I think this is a movie I will never forget and every time I watch it I go away with a feeling of uncertainty.

Having those innocent little titles for each of the snuff films is one of the best horror movie gimmicks i’ve seen.

So not having a kid helps me survive this. That was easy.

This is why I love Sinister. Ellison is a genuinely smart person, but it’s his ego and his stubbornness that ends up putting himself and his family at risk. He’s not a bad guy, but his selfishness gets the better of him. By the time he’s realised his mistakes it’s already too late.

This movie isn’t even necessarily scary, it’s not particularly realistic either, but for some reason I get an overwhelming sense of dread when I watch it

Sinister was scary, but in the sense that it gives you an extremely unsettling feeling. All other horror movies give off the same vibe every time, but this one made me almost feel kinda sick. It was definitely one of the best, considering I don’t usually feel emotion when watching a lot of horror.

this is a great example of a horror movie character sealing their fate by making stupid decisions. I'm not saying Elison is stupid, but if he wasn't so stubborn wanting to keep all of the evidence to himself then he could've potentially saved himself and his family. pff

The simple fact that he found a weird box with film material of murders in the house randomly standing in the attic would make him a millionaire

1:46 i thought you were going to say "that scorpion made one final mistake" and just explain what that scorpion should have done to survive

I like it when a paranormal horror movie actually has a way out. Screw the sequel for ruining it

that lawnmower scene traumatized me 😭

Why does the ghost dude look like slipknot's guitarist, Mick Thomson lmao

The music in the background when he watches the snuff films make it 1000 times more unsettling

The lawnmower moment is one of the biggest jumpscares I’ve ever experienced

People without kids move into the house Boghuul: "This was so much easier before protection was invented..." 10 years later: "Just f*ck already! I’m starving!"

That man did everything but call the cops or try move out 😭

the scariest film for me is the lawnmower one. I knew it was going to happen, by then you knew what the films were all about, but for some reason that made me the most spooked. Great job on the video!

So basically, the best way to survive is to realize that you're in a horror movie.

the eerie soundtrack of Sinister is one of the many reasons why it's in my top 5 best horror movies.

These how to beat videos are getting out of hand. And I love it 😂

Well I ain't no snitch but my younger brother is evil and Boghuul has definitely eaten his soul

The first time i saw this movie, the title "Lawn work" remained perpetuated in my mind for days. The simplicity of the tittle and the brutality of the murder had perfect sync. What make this movie so addictive and scary are the "snuff film" type of videos, they feel so real. Sinister 2 also had very good snuff films in it. Even when people says it wasnt that good, i loved it too.

This movie scared me to death as a kid. Couldn't walk around alone at night for years.

Going off the first movie alone, ironically, Bughuul uses fear to kill his victims, by terrifying them into leaving the house and then making the child kill their family. He essentially punishes you for being afraid of him. However, if you take that fear a step further into full-on paranoia and take excessive measures to protect yourself, what is he gonna do? He operates through tiny children, what are they gonna do against an adult who seemingly jumps at anything? On another note, this pattern makes it seem like he’s dependent on whatever home the family moves into. If a house is burned down or demolished, what’s he gonna do? If he can just move houses, why would he not just increase the frequency of his attacks to more than once every few years, he could kill way faster, yet he doesn’t. If a family is murdered, the house becomes vacant, then he has no child left to possess until one actually moves in. If that house is demolished or say gets burned down in a forest fire or something, Bughuul is fucked. And what if a family doesn’t even move in? What if the house is just bought and owned by childless families? what if a family where all the children are grown up moves in? Either Bughuul is severely limiting himself for no reason or he isn’t very unbeatable at all.

In my personal opinion, Sinister stopped being scary when they revealed all the supernatural things. I didn’t know anything about the movie before watching it and to be honest, I was creeped out when I believed it was set in reality. Being “normal” snuff films

The number 1 dumbest decision is not moving after he finds bughuul in literally in every single one of the tapes that’s basically proof that the killer or culprit is not human

The last minute of movie is so scary asf most especially when Bughul showed out of nowhere.I didnt sleep for almost 2days because of that

I love channels like this. Deep dives and explanations make me want to back and watch again!

I am not kidding I feel like this movie has triggered something with me I am so fucking scared of the guy like all the time I loved the movie but dam it had some impact on me XD

The murder tapes are creepy and look like something you’d really see on the dark web..

This movie was so scary when I first seen the trailer, and the face was in the pool.

I think the reason for the whole ritual of the kids killing their family is not so Baghoul can kill them, but so he can take them into his world. The tapes probably brought him into this world enough to kill the child in revenge if the ritual is interrupted but he can't actually take them with him as a snack for later. The professor mentions that he lives inside visual mediums and since we know from the sequel that the chosen child watches all the previous home movies those viewings are perhaps what is needed to bring him into our world. After all, Baghoul is seen in all the movies and we see him move on Ethan Hawkes screen indicating that he is indeed living in those images.

sinister is one of the films that truly scared me. Not because of the jumpscares but the way the boogeyman cant be beaten

If Elison would have not been stupid and called the police earlier, We may not have got such intense movie. Anyone in real Life would Call the police in such situation but its a movie and to make a movie interesting and terrifying, anything can happen.

The demon didn't kill the children after completing the ritual, he brought them into his realm as a sort of reward. I believe making children murder people may feed him, and the youngest child brings him the most sustenance.

The music during those films is extremely unsettling

I wonder what would happen if someone moved into the house but didn't have any kids or if the kids lived with other people. Would the demon go after the kids anyway?

I seen this movie so many times .. I’m just now noticing the tree was cut with a saw😂😂

this was the first movie to genuinely traumatize me. scares me everytime i watch it

The snuff films elevated this movie, I remember it for them and admittedly I liked the twist that moving house was the final step before the baddy got em

This movie was good cuz. Its the most realistic movie to wat "normal" people would of done.

Had he just called the cops or took the damn tapes to the police department they probably would not have died.

“Normally drowned victims can be brought back “ Not with a crazy demon In charge.

I always love these videos of how to beat a movie

the films are recorded by the missing kid, not by a stalker, at least in Sinister 2 we discover that

Me when I think my phone buzzes but when I check it nothing is there; “Somethings wrong I can feel it”

I know how to beat it just get someone that doesn't have a child and the thing would starve

i really appreciate how you don't show jumpscares. i think horror movies can definitely be good without dumb jumpscares

Thanks for solving my Bughuul problem.

Forest scorpions and Emperor scorpions are among the most commonly kept pet scorpion, so that scorpion was probably a good little boy or girl being very spooky and good at acting, and deserves a treat.

The opening scene is so epic and instantly gave me Goosebumps

Sinister, if you just read about it, seems like you ordinary horror-evening-with-friends-movie. But the one thing that makes the movie so unsettling, so brutal (and to this day one of the best horror flicks I have seen, and I have seen a lot)...is the music. Combined with the low-res imagery of the snuff movies, the overall tone of kids beeing involved...its astonishing. The soundtrack is so brutal without kicking your head in with guitars or chuggs. It is the perfect embodiment of combinging music with visuals to create something unique.

How to beat Sinister: Call Sam and Dean Winchester.

The only way to survive after moving into a new home would be to not accept any drink or food from your youngest child and keep them locked up at night while you sleep. Also, make sure that they never have access to anything you're going to ingest.

i really remember this movie because it was the first horror movie I've watched and it still scares the shit out of me

Loving the content mate. Sinister is probably my favourite horror movie ever.

You get a few scorpions in the south strangely enough. I've seen a handful down there. But that far up north kinda sus

Rule #1 DON'T GO TO THE HOUSE WHERE PEOPLE WERE MYSTERIOUSLY MURDERED! Rule #2 DON'T WATCH ANY SUSPICIOUS SUPER 8 OR VHS TAPES!

You should do the Final Destination films

I'll never look at lawnmowers the same way again...

Him: How to beat Sinister? Me: Easy, never have children 🤣

Do how to survive The Texas Chainsaw Massacre next!!

This is actually one of my favorite horror movies I’ve ever seen.

Why even were those tapes in the attic. Does it have some meaning to the sequel, like if you dont watch it, then it doesn't happen or something.

Funniest moment in the movie is when The wife asks elison if they moved to this location because a murder took place a few houses down so he can write a new book Elison says no and assures her they didn't. I'm like well he didn't lie to her lol

was hiding in the comments for so long and right at the moment i scroll up to the actual video again there's a jumpscare

I feel like even if he contacted the police, if the box of videos that show the family killings can just out of nowhere transport to his new house after literally being burned to shreds, what would stop it from disappearing into thin air when the police show up to his house to view the tapes? I feel like the box of tapes would mysteriously disappear if he tried to contact the police and they would think he’s crazy and he’d end up going psycho 🤷🏾‍♂️

This and insidious are my fav horror movies, weird plots, great jumpscares, realistic acting

Everytime I watch sinister my eyes get 2x more watery and I feel an tall entity standing behind me waiting for me to get up and walk from the the corridor to the kitchen without watching my back.

"Scorpions don't often appear in Pennsylvania's residential homes" Me, a homeowner in Pennsylvania who often sees scorpions: 👀

Funny thing, there have been quite a lot of times where warning signs were there for Ellison, but he ignores every single one. Even the brief appearances of Bughuul in Family Hanging Out and BBQ (before he sees Bughuul in Pool Party).

Simple way to survive the ghoul: USE PROTECTION. Damn, Durex missed a major marketing opportunity with this movie.

The thing that bothered me the most about this movie is that damn cardigan ethan hawk never takes off

I want to see more “timeline explained” videos. Maybe Insidious, Sinister or Conjuring universe. Love your videos dude

I think the best way is that he saves up 5000 dollars for containment costs and calls the ghostbusters in the neighboring state of NY. Then once the ghostbusters get there they slime the youngest possessed child with positively charged ectpplasm and they proceed to capture begul or booghul. Then once booghul has a new home in the containment unit everyone lives. 😊

I think this movie would have been so much better and more unsettling if they took out the “mr boogie” and replaced it with an actual killer or a ritualistic cult.

Moral of the story: Dont have kids

I love that you summarize the movie so that those who haven't seen it can understand what's happening

Fun fact: the original prop master was fired from this movie when the father who gets hung almost got legitimately hung and almost died.

I don't mean to sound dumb when I say this, but watching this video made me realize the deputy in the first movie is the same as the one in the second movie.

This is absolutely when of the best relatively recent horror films by far. The sound design/music is fantastic.

This is one of the creepiest horror films I've watched. It's not scary or gory, it's just creepy and unsettling. Still gets my heart going to this day

I think the feeling of dread is caused by the soundtrack i bet it’s why I get uneasy watching this movie

The film started on fire in the theater when I watched this...you can imagine how that went down

Reminds me of The Grudge movies where it's like there's a haunted house being bought repeatedly instead of being torn down. Because of this, the family that moves into the house suffers a horrific fate with the demon that lives within. Also reminds me of Get Out in some ways. As you point out, there are multiple instances where as the audience you think Ellison's best move is to "Get out" before it's too late... But then too late happens and all hell breaks loose

Watching this for 'just in case' reasons haha

Those snuff films were so unsettling.

FINALLY SOMEONE MADE THIS VIDEO! haha thanks for this!

Bro was ready to sacrifice his family for writing some books.

When the movie first came out my mom said he looked like Michael Jackson........not to mention the fact that he takes kids......I was no longer scared of Bagul after that🤣

01:49 'one might say a little sinister' lol. Pun of the century

He didn’t actually kill the kid in the second movie, that’s actually just how he “eats” them, he absorbs them until they are dust so it still makes sense why the kid was disintegrated

1:49 wait, that house is in PENNSYLVANIA? Why does he not really think anything of it when a DANGEROUS DESERT CREATURE shows up in his house?

Me, eternally alone: you have no power here

4:43,my eyes has leave my soul....

Me and my friends were all in an Xbox party and we started the movie at the same time so it was like a watch along. Obviously it did take away some of the fear from the film but it was still scary. If you can watch this alone, 3am, in complete darkness, you are something special

16:00 or just don’t have kids

We'd just bully him for being called "bagool" and make him cry until he leaves.

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This is the first and last horror movie I've seen, I remember shitting my pants watching it when I was a kid and my older cousins used to mock me for being afraid to watch it, this is the reason I slept with my light on for months... good times