A disappointing follow-up. It primarily lacked any kind of suspense. Go watch/re-watch the first Sinister instead.

I didn't even watch this movie in theaters and I still wanted to leave.

Got some scares but the "story" almost made me sleep.

A disappointing sequel, Sinister 2 lacks the intensity and suspense that made the original so compelling. After the death of the Oswalt family a former deputy turned private investigator attempts to break Bughuul’s cycle by burning down the houses of its victims to prevent him from cultivating new ones, but when he discovers a mother (played by Shannyn Sossamon) and her two sons living at a farmhouse that was one of the crime scenes he tries to find a way to save them before Bughuul can get to them. The film makes the classic mistake of over-explaining by showing how children are corrupted and turned by Bughuul (which is better left ambiguous). Also, the child actors aren’t that good, and the casting of twins (who are similar looking) as the two brothers makes things especially confusing and hard to follow. Additionally, the retconning of Bughuul to having multiple killing cycles somehow takes away his mystique and diminishes the stakes of the battle for this one family. Sinister 2 makes all the wrong moves and becomes just another cheesy horror sequel doing the same old thing.

Still a good horror movie but the first one was better. Sinister 2 succeeded in creating a morbid atmosphere and startling me sometimes, but especially in the end it followed the typical horror movie logic that isn't logic at all. To sum it up Sinister 2 isn't outstanding but still fun to watch, even more so with friends.