The 2012 film Sinister introduced the Bughuul, a freaky boogeyman who feasts on young children, inciting them to murder their families while filming themselves doing the deed. In the film, Ethan Hawke played a successful true-crime writer who moved his family into a house that was the scene of one ...

The summer is a time when movie theatres are filled with brainless fluff — from superhero blockbusters to big-budget sequels, the season is all about appealing to the masses and raking in the millions. Visual spectacle and merchandising are the goals, and if characters are underwritten or the storytelling is ...