
The family is bound and hung up like scarecrows with sacks over their heads in a cornfield, and burned alive. The film opens with a home movie, depicting a family of three.

The film grossed over $54 million against its reported budget of $10 million. The film was largely panned by critics, with criticism for its jump scares, horror cliches and story, while Ransone's performance received some praise. Sinister 2 was a co-production of Gramercy Pictures, Entertainment One, IM Global, Blumhouse Productions, and Tank Caterpillar, Inc., and released on August 21, 2015, by Focus Features. Unlike the first film which utilized 8 mm film in the story's home movies and snuff films, this film utilized 16 mm film, vinyl records, and ham radio broadcasts in the film’s storyline. The film follows the now ex-deputy as he attempts to put an end to Bughuul's curse, while a boy is being tormented by the entity's previous victims who lived in the house where he, his twin brother, and mother now reside, hiding from his abusive father.

Robert Cargill, serving as a sequel to the 2012 film Sinister, and stars James Ransone, reprising his role from the original film, alongside Shannyn Sossamon. Sinister 2 (stylized in marketing as Sinister II) is a 2015 American supernatural horror film directed by Ciarán Foy and written by Scott Derrickson and C.
