The villains of “Sinister 2” are horrid children in the grip of unseen demons — in other words, “children.” The various crucifixions, electrocutions...

Tomris Laffly reviews the new film "Sinister 2."

Sinister 2 is so close to being a good movie that everything bad about it seems ten times worse.

Just to be perfectly clear about what to expect: “Sinister 2” opens with three bodies, crucified and burned alive. In a cornfield.

Round 2 for this supernatural horror franchise

It merely exudes an aura of cheap manipulation by which the audience is simply asked to rank the film’s characters on a d-bag scale.

Like Roger Corman’s The Pit and the Pendulum, Sinister 2 cheerfully tries to make sense of where sadism springs from, says Charlotte O'Sullivan

As a kid, if I’d ever been roused in the middle of the night by a creepy ghost and invited to come down to the basement to watch home movies of families being horri…

The demonic Bughuul returns in 'Sinister 2' with plenty of eerie footage, but there's little of the original's deep dread.

Jason Blum’s Blumhouse production shingle is known for its factory-like efficiency in churning out profitable low-budget horror properties, but with “Sinister 2,” director Ciaran Foy’s follow-up to Scott Derrickson’s 2012 hit, the company achieves a rather extreme level of economy.

James Ransone reprises his role as an investigator attempting to solve a series of notorious murders.

Irish director Ciarán Foy does his best with the atmospherics, but can do little with Sinister 2’s cluttered, tonally deranged mess of a script

Despite having more haunted-film reels and ghost-children Sinister 2 has a curse that is better left unbroken

In this workmanlike sequel, a nervous cop heads for an ever eerie Indiana – and a shoddy ending

James Ransome played the unnamed deputy who survived the mayhem of "Sinister," but lost his job over trying to save the family headed by a writer who has stumbled into a cache of supernaturally murderous home movies. So he's the lead in "Sinister 2," now a nameless ex-deputy traveling the land, looking for houses where…