Sinister - 2012 - 6/10

Promising thriller missteps early, succumbs to cliché, tired writing, formula.
True crime writer (aarrgghh, another plot with that most boring main character, the writer), Ethan Hawke, moves family into home where previous family was mass murdered.
Of course, he neglects to tell his wife any of those details.
In no time flat, he discovers cans of film reels, disturbing clues, and bumps in the night.
Does he move the family out? Ha, silly.
OK enough production, but the plot has been done dozens of times.