SINISTER 2 (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Shannyn Sossamon (A Knight’s Tale), James Ransone (Inside Man), Dartanian Sloan (Hick), Robert Daniel Sloan (Chronicles of a Love Unfound), Jaden Klein (Mother’s Milk), Lucas Jade Zumann (film debut), Laila Haley (film debut), Olivia Rainey (film debut), Caden M. Fritz (film debut), Lea Coco (J. Edgar), Nicholas King (Max Keeble’s Big Move), Tate Ellington (Remember Me)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Ciarán Foy (Citadel), director; Scott Derrickson (The Exorcism of Emily Rose), writer, producer; C. Robert Cargill (Sinister), writer; Jason Blum (Insidious) and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones (The Signal), producers; Tom Hajdu (The Hills Have Eyes) and Andy Milburn (The Mothman Prophecies), composers; Amy Vincent (Hustle & Flow), cinematographer; Timothy Alverson (Darkness Falls), Ken Blackwell (The Expendables) and Michael Trent (Girl on a Bicycle), editors

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Shortly after the horrific events of the first film, protective young mother Courtney (Sossamon) and her nine-year-old twin sons Zach and Dylan (D. Sloan and R.D. Sloan) move into a rural house that the evil spirit Bughuul (King) is residing in, and as before it tries to convince one of the children to kill their family and film their murders…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

The sequel to the well-received first film raises the stakes even higher, with more diabolical hauntings and disturbing imagery to up the ante and truly chill you for weeks upon end.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 21ST AUGUST 2015

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