Ten years ago, on October 12, 2012, the film was released in the United States. scariest movie It arrived in Spanish cinemas on Halloween, October 31st in history. that movie ‘The Devil’ (2012)from america Scott Derrickson (‘The Black Phone’) and although horror is very subjective, it often comes first in polls about the scariest horror movie in history. Inspired by a dream by screenwriter C. Robert Cargill, ‘Sinister’ tells the story of a writer (Ethan Hawke) who settles with his family in a house where a terrible event took place. Soon after, he finds a box of spooky home videos and is obsessed with finding out what’s behind them.
The story isn’t very original, but Derrickson and Cargill went from there to build a movie whose terrifying capacity could not be fully deciphered. Director JA Bayona (‘The Orphanage’, ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’) explains it very well: “Although it’s not easy, when you’re shooting a horror movie you can crave a disturbing atmosphere, a disturbing scene, I hope. moderately iconic image. But to achieve what Derrickson accomplished in ‘Sinister’ is also very difficult: descend into horrorMakes a really scary movie. This happens very rarely.”
“Derrickson is horrified, he makes a really scary movie. It’s very difficult.”
Burned by what they’ve been through ‘The Ultimatum on Earth’ (2008)Derrickson made the movie on a small budget, a small crew, and many challenges. But he made the movie he wanted. Ryan Scott recently released an outstanding oral history of the film on SlashFilm digitally: “For me, it was the purest cinematographic experience anyone could have because I wasn’t thinking about the success of the film. film. I was thinking about doing well, making it really scary, making a horror movie that I wanted to see in the cinema.” Regardless, it was an international success: it cost three million dollars and grossed 82. Why is it so scary? Why does it keep scaring so many people?
Author Mariana Enriquez (‘Nuestra parte de noche’) recalls seeing him like this for the first (and last) time: “I saw him this morning at a press screening with other critics in a very small cinema in Buenos Aires and was about to die. fear. Home movies, children’s narrations, the atmosphere in general… The idea of going to the house where the crime was committed is great, but there is still something that makes me me when you film it and tell it. to die of fear. I don’t know, I never quite understood what made that movie so scary. I never saw it again because I want to keep that feeling alive. Actually, I’m thinking about this right now and I remember the horror on Ethan Hawke’s face. I’m watching a movie and that’s how I feel”.
“The idea of going to the house where the crime was committed is so cliche, but there’s something about the way you film it and describe it that scares me to death.”
Images that feed nightmares
The filmmakers and writers interviewed for this article agree on the mystery of their footage, especially on home video. They are images occupied by sadness and chilling. It is even more difficult to see or even forget them. “’Sinister’ has the ability to produce iconic disturbing images, still images that have become part of your nightmarish knowledge. All ‘found images’ like a lawnmower are something you will never forget. This is a great movie. And above you remove terror and still so scary because this is the story of an uncle who puts his family at risk for his ambition”, explains director Paco Plaza ([REC]’Veronica’).
It is true that ‘Sinister’ is also a tremendous tale of obsession and greed. movie productor Alice Waddington (‘Paradise Hills’) begins an interesting interpretation of this aspect of the film: “’Sinister’ is a manifestation of gothic terror that consciously connects with the obsessive periods that writers inevitably enter when exploring painful or complex themes. Beyond the horror of tapes; It’s a rotten cautionary tale about the ego about telling stories about other people’s suffering in order to achieve its own success.”
“‘Sinister’ is capable of producing iconic disturbing images, still images that become part of your nightmare knowledge”
heart rate
‘Forbes’ magazine published an article two years ago in which the Broadbandchoices platform cites research conducted by the Science of Scare Project and broadband choices platform to determine which is the scariest movie in history. To accomplish this, they followed with devices. heart rate A group of fifty people of different ages who watched more than a hundred hours of horror movies. The highest average heart rate of the viewers was with the movie ‘Sinister’ with an increase of 32%.
Manager Jaume Balaguero (‘[REC]’, ‘Venus’) there is an anecdote that can increase this rate even more: “I went to see ‘Sinister’ during a night session at the Sitges festival. My 12-13 year old niece and daughter asked if they could come. I told them of course to come. I told them how to return to the hotel if they were afraid, and they decided to leave early, but they said there would be no need: keep going!’ The movie begins and a tree appears with a family hanging on it. My niece and daughter got up and left. It took two seconds.”