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Lately, my biological clock has been ticking away. Maybe it’s the fact that I know too many young mothers. Maybe in my advancing age, the bitch cells are drying up and withering away. Maybe I’m bored. Maybe you feel the same way. Well fret not! Nothing will hit the snooze button like Scott Derrickson’s Sinister. Hell, I’m leaning more in the pro-sterilization category. Fuck these ovaries.

Ethan Hawke stars as Ellison Oswalt, a frustrated has-been of a writer who moves his family into a house at which four gruesome murders have recently taken place. He discovers a mysterious box in the attic containing several super-8 film rolls with innocuous, generic labels (“Pool Party ’66,” “Hanging with the Family ’11,” etc). Each film depicts a grisly murder scene perpetrated by some unknown party....

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On most Sunday afternoons, I engross myself in homework. Today, I decided to procrastinate. So I turned to Xfinity and paid the ridiculously high $6.99 for Grave Encounters 2, the next installment of a film series that is almost certain to continue producing sequels as long as idiots like me will still pay $6.99 to see them. This new sequel, brought to you by the aptly named Vicious Brothers, is directed by John Poliquin. As with most found footage films, the cast is comprised of fresh-faced actors whom no one has ever seen (Seriously, these people don’t even have Wikipedia pages).

Our film opens with a number of wannabe Roger Eberts reviewing the first film, the last of which introduces us to the cynical Alex Wright (Richard Harmon). Wright, an established Youtube reviewer, pans the film. He and his fellow students at Generic Party University aspire to create careers in the film business. Wright begins to receive eerie messages from the mysterious “Death Awaits.” Curiosity gets the best of him and he resolves to create his own documentary to uncover the evil that lurks within the Asylum walls....

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I hate sequels. I always have. Aside from The Devil'’s Rejects and The Lion King 2, I'’ve yet to see a sequel that doesn'’t lazily play off of its predecessor in terms of originality. When one of my students mentioned in class that Paranormal Activity 4 was to be released this week, I knew not to expect much. By now, after having seen the previous three both sober and shit-faced, I was pretty familiar with the formula. Cynical as I am, I still wanted to see this atrocity. Why? Because I'’m a masochist. And I'’m kind of a whore for the whole “found footage” genre. Now, sitting safely in my non-paranormaly house, I can'’t help but wonder: Jesus Jiminy Christ, what did I just watch? Because whatever it is, now that I'’ve seen it, I can'’t unsee it.

Our story starts out five years after Katie (Katie Featherston) went bat-shit bananas sandwich and made off with her dead sister'’s son. Our protagonist, Alex (played by celluloid screen newcomer Kathryn Newton) records her little brother'’s soccer game. The audience is able to take notice of a strange little boy staring at the game....

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