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| released = | runtime = 110 minutes | country = | language = | budget = $3 million | gross = $77.7 million〔http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=sinister.htm〕 }} ''Sinister'' is a 2012 American supernatural horror film directed by Scott Derrickson and written by Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill. It stars Ethan Hawke as fictional true-crime writer Ellison Oswalt who discovers a box of home movies in his attic that puts his family in danger. The film, a co-production between the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, premiered at the SXSW festival, and was released in the United States on October 12, 2012, and in the UK on October 5, 2012. A sequel, ''Sinister 2'', was released in the United States on August 21, 2015. ==Plot== The film opens with Super 8 footage depicting a family of four standing beneath a tree with sacks over their heads and nooses around their necks. An unseen figure saws through a branch acting as a counterweight, causing their deaths by hanging. Months later, true crime writer Ellison Oswalt (Ethan Hawke) moves into the murdered family's home with his wife, Tracy (Juliet Rylance), and their two children, 7-year-old Ashley (Clare Foley), an artist who is allowed to paint on her walls, and 12-year-old Trevor (Michael Hall D'Addario), who begins re-experiencing bizarre night terrors upon moving into their new home. Only Ellison is aware that the house they are moving into was the crime scene from the opening scene. Ellison intends to use the case of the murdered family as the basis for his new book, and hopes that his research will reveal the fate of the Stevenson family's fifth member, a 10-year-old girl named Stephanie who disappeared following the murders. Ellison finds a box (along with a black scorpion) in the attic that contains a projector and several reels of Super 8 mm footage that are each labeled as innocent home movies. Ellison discovers that the films are actually snuff films depicting different families being murdered in various ways: being tied to sunbeds and drowned in their pool (''Pool Party '66''), being bound and gagged and burned to death in a car (''BBQ '79''), being run over by a lawn mower (''Lawn Work '86''), being bound and gagged and having their throats slit in bed (''Sleepy Time '98''), and the hanging from the opening of the film (''Family Hanging Out '11''). The drowning film is especially disturbing for Ellison when he notices the face of a demonic figure watching the drownings from the bottom of the pool. Ellison eventually finds the demonic figure throughout all the films along with a strange painted symbol. Upon inspecting the lid of the box containing the films, and a snake, Ellison discovers childish drawings depicting the murders, along with crude sketches of the demonic figure, called "Mr. Boogie." Consulting a local deputy (James Ransone), Ellison discovers that the murders depicted in the films took place at different times, beginning in the 1960s, and in different cities across the country. He also learns that some of the families were drugged before being killed, and that a child from each family went missing following every murder. The deputy refers Ellison to a local professor, Jonas (Vincent D'Onofrio), whose expertise is the occult and demonic phenomena, to decipher the symbol in the films. Jonas tells Ellison that the symbols are that of a pagan Babylonian deity named Bughuul (Nick King), who would kill entire families and then take one of their children into his realm in order to consume his/her soul. One night, Ellison spots Bughuul in the bushes and rushes outside, armed with a baseball bat, only to find Trevor, having experienced yet another night terror and rushes him back inside. Ellison returns outside to retrieve his bat when he encounters a black rottweiler. The dog sees the missing children standing behind Ellison, causing the dog to flee out of fear. The second night, Ellison hears a noise within the home and investigates, again armed with his bat, being plagued by the missing children in various states of decay. After Ellison checks in on Ashley and leaves, Stephanie is shown in front of Ashley, painting her family's murder with Bughuul. The third night, Ellison hears the film projector running and goes up to the attic. There, he finds the missing children watching one of the films. Bughuul suddenly appears on camera before physically appearing before Ellison. Ellison takes the camera and the films to the backyard and burns them. His recently awakened wife meets him outside and he tells her that they're moving back to their old house immediately. At his old home, Ellison receives a message from Professor Jonas, who sends him scans of historical images associated with Bughuul; the images have been partially destroyed by the early Christians, who believed that images of Bughuul served as a gateway for the demon to come from the spiritual realm to the mortal world; the images include the symbol from the murders along with a scorpion, a snake, and a black beast. According to Professor Jonas, people, especially children, who saw the images of Bughuul could be possessed and even abducted into the images. Ellison discovers the projector and films in his attic, along with a new envelope of film labeled "''extended cut endings''". During this time, the deputy tries calling several times, but Ellison never answers. The next time the deputy calls, while Ellison is assembling the films, he finally answers. The deputy informs him that he has discovered a link between the murders: every family had previously lived in the house where the last murder took place, and each new murder occurred shortly after the family moved from the crime scene into their new residence. By moving, Ellison has placed himself and his family in line to be the next victims. Ellison watches the footage, and finds that it depicts the missing children coming onscreen following each murder, revealing themselves to be the killers, apparently under Bughuul's possession before suddenly disappearing. Before he can react, Ellison becomes light-headed, and upon inspection of his coffee cup, he notices a bright green liquid mixed with the coffee and finds a note reading "Good Night, Daddy" before losing consciousness. Ashley appears behind Ellison, revealing herself to be the drugger, under Bughuul's possession. Ellison awakens to find himself, Tracy and Trevor bound and gagged. Ashley approaches holding the 8 mm camera, and promises him that she will make him famous again. Ashley then decapitates Tracy with an axe before going on to kill Elison and Trevor, using their blood to paint images of cats, dogs and unicorns on the walls. With her work complete, Ashley views the Super-8 film of her murders, which concludes with an image of the missing children watching her. Bughuul appears, causing the children to flee in fear. He then lifts Ashley into his arms and disappears into the film with her. The film concludes with an image of the box of films in the Oswalt family's attic, now accompanied by Ashley's reel, labeled "''House Painting '12''". The camera slowly pans away from the box, until Bughuul appears onscreen and the screen cuts out. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sinister (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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