If you’re looking for a last-minute Halloween jolt or two, here’s a scary-movie treat that’ll do the trick.
In “Sinister,” Ethan Hawke plays a true-crime novelist, Ellison Oswalt, who relocates with his wife and kids to the Pennsylvania town where the subjects of his latest book-in-progress were murdered.
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