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Cast
- James RansoneEx-Deputy So & So
- Shannyn SossamonCourtney Collins
- Robert Daniel SloanDylan Collins
- Dartanian SloanZach Collins
- Lea CocoClint Collins
- Tate EllingtonDr. Stomberg
- John BeasleyFather Rodriguez
- Lucas Jade ZumannMilo
- Jaden KleinTed
- Laila HaleyEmma
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The Hollywood Reporter
Sinister 2 comes up a bit short on creative resources, although director Ciaran Foy probably gets enough right to entice those partial to the original. - 50
TheWrap
Visual stakes are heightened here, to an absurd, laugh-inspiring degree, the deaths sliding into the realm of “Saw”-style ridiculousness. - 50
New York Post
It’s somehow both too drawn-out and abrupt — but it’s got creepiness galore. - 50
RogerEbert.com
Sinister 2 may be ambitious, but its best ideas are, as they're expressed, dumb, unmoving, and repetitive. - 42
The Playlist
Featuring none of its predecessor’s sumptuous pitch-black visuals and sense of creeping dread, Ciaran Foy’s follow-up is a misbegotten venture at every turn, in large part because it follows the horror sophomore rulebook so closely. - 42
Entertainment Weekly
Sinister 2 doesn’t know what it wants to be, and doesn’t add up to much. - 30
Variety
A retread of such brainless, shameless lameness that it’s hard to imagine anyone begging for another installment. - 25
Slant Magazine
It merely exudes an aura of cheap manipulation by which the audience is simply asked to rank the film's characters on a d-bag scale and root for their survival, or destruction, accordingly.