Bughuul and Ghost Kids, Back in “SINISTER 2”
“Sinister 2” is the chilling sequel to the 2012
sleeper hit horror movie. In the aftermath of the shocking events in Sinister,
the evil spirit of Bughuul continues to spread with frightening intensity. The
new story is a scary, suspenseful race against time to save a family from
falling prey to the madness, movies, and murder conjured by Bughuul and his
foot soldiers, the ghost kids.
9-year-old
twins Dylan and Zach Collins (portrayed by real-life brothers Robert and
Dartanian Sloan) have been spirited away by their mother Courtney (Shannyn
Sossamon of Wayward Pines) to a rural house in Illinois. The home and property
are just isolated enough to evade Courtney’s estranged husband Clint (Lea
Coco), who has abused her and Dylan. This protective mother is unaware that the
house itself is marked for death.
“When
considering making a sequel, I believe the most important thing is to get the
author of the first movie involved. My biggest job at that stage is trying to
convince the people who were smart enough to come up with the original idea,
Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill, to stay with it. While Scott’s schedule
didn’t allow for him to direct Sinister 2 [as he had the original], he got
involved in writing and producing it, so I felt we could move forward,” says
producer Jason Blum.
A
breakthrough for the screenwriters came when “we found a different point of
view we could tell a new story from,” says Derrickson. “Sinister was a horror
movie about watching horror movies, and that had more power than maybe I’d even
intended. Whenever I see sections of the ‘home movies,’ they still creep me
out. So these became even more of a
conscious presence in the sequel; Bughuul’s stealing children’s souls and
compelling them to make the kill films – those homicides through art – are a
big part of the storyline in Sinister 2.”
Blum
adds, “For the second movie, we knew that Bughuul had made such a powerful
impression as the villain in the first movie, everyone wanted him back.”
Ciarán
Foy was drawn to join the Sinister team as director of Sinister 2 because “this
story is all about exploring the mythology behind Bughuul, beyond what was in
the first movie.” Bughuul is back as the
twisted visionary behind the nightmarish kill films, with the slayings caught
on camera by the victims’ children whose souls he has conscripted. While
expanding the mythology, Derrickson and Cargill also sought consistency by
setting the story in another isolated home where horrible murder has occurred.
Derrickson
reminds, “In the first movie, Ex-Deputy So & So – he went unnamed – figured
out too late how Bughuul is out there doing these ghastly things. So & So
is now trying to track down potential victims because he knows the pattern of
how this entity, this pagan deity, chooses his victims.
“Sinister
2” comes out in cinemas this September 9 from Pioneer Films.
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