{"id":82133,"date":"2025-10-18T04:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T04:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/82133\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T04:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T04:35:09","slug":"the-greatest-horror-film-of-the-last-decade-is-now-streaming-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/82133\/","title":{"rendered":"The Greatest Horror Film of the Last Decade Is Now Streaming for Free"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Black Phone 2<\/a> is set to turn Ethan Hawke<\/a>\u2019s child-abducting villain The Grabber into a surprising modern horror icon (it\u2019s partially surprising because he definitely died in the first Black Phone<\/a>), continuing a successful horror collaboration between Hawke and director Scott Derrickson<\/a> that began over 10 years ago. The two of them, plus screenwriter C. Robert Cargill<\/a>, first worked together on 2012\u2019s Sinister<\/a>, one of the best original horror movies of the 2010s \u2014 though Get Out is a strong contender and The Conjuring doesn\u2019t count because it\u2019s based on the \u201ctrue\u201d stories of Ed and Lorraine Warren. Either way, if the return of The Grabber has you eager for more Derrickson\/Hawke horror, we have good news: Sinister is streaming for free right now on both Tubi and The Roku Channel.<\/p>\n

Certainly eligible for \u201cunderrated cult classic\u201d status, Sinister only has a 64% on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> but made $82 million on a $3 million budget<\/a> internationally. That alone was probably a big factor in convincing Marvel to give Derrickson the job of directing Doctor Strange<\/a>, which is quietly a very solid entry in the ever-expanding MCU canon (and it contains the franchise\u2019s best joke). There wasn\u2019t quite enough water in the well to support the less-successful Sinister 2<\/a>, which Derrickson handed off to director Ciar\u00e1n Foy.<\/p>\n

Why Is \u2018Sinister\u2019 the Best Original Horror Movie of the 2010s?<\/p>\n

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Ostensibly a haunted house movie, Sinister\u2019s big hook is the discovery of a box of Super 8 \u201chome movies\u201d that actually depict multiple families being horribly murdered. The videos themselves are extremely unnerving, even before the ultimate reveal of, say, an entire family \u2014 save one child, who later goes missing \u2014 drowning to death in a swimming pool, and Sinister makes brilliant use of the inherent spookiness of outdated, lower-quality video formats. It doesn\u2019t predate the kind of low-fi scares that people put on YouTube, but it\u2019s arguably the most effective depiction of the terror of stumbling onto something you don\u2019t understand in a mainstream horror movie. It\u2019s just genuinely very scary<\/a> in a way that a lot of other movies like this aren\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Sinister stars Hawke as a struggling true-crime writer who got famous for writing one successful book that helped catch a killer\u2026 and then a bunch of follow-up books that nobody liked. He and his family have just moved into a new house, but his wife (Juliet Rylance<\/a>) doesn\u2019t know that the previous owners of the house were all murdered by someone who was never caught. Hawke\u2019s character hopes that he can solve the mystery and write a book about it, so when he discovers the aforementioned box of murder movies, he thinks it\u2019s the key to finding the truth and getting famous again. That gives him the appropriate level of hubris for a horror movie protagonist, so you can walk away thinking that what happens is kind of his fault \u2014 even if it is still extraordinarily mean.<\/p>\n

At the same time, spooky things start happening in the house involving ghostly children and a boogeyman-like character called Mr. Boogie, and much like The Ring<\/a> (a somewhat obvious source of inspiration<\/a>), it starts to seem like something the good guys can \u201cwin\u201d even though it\u2019s definitely not. The movie also stars the great Vincent D\u2019Onofrio<\/a> in a too-brief cameo and James Ransone<\/a> from It Chapter Two<\/a> (who goes on to become the main character of Sinister 2). Again: It\u2019s free on Tubi and The Roku Channel!<\/p>\n

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Release Date<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOctober 12, 2012<\/p>\n

Runtime<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t110 minutes<\/p>\n

Director<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tScott Derrickson<\/p>\n

Writers<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tScott Derrickson, C. Robert Cargill<\/p>\n

Franchise(s)<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSinister<\/p>\n


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