Metacritic reviews

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.

Visual stakes are heightened here, to an absurd, laugh-inspiring degree, the deaths sliding into the realm of “Saw”-style ridiculousness.

It’s somehow both too drawn-out and abrupt — but it’s got creepiness galore.

Sinister 2 may be ambitious, but its best ideas are, as they're expressed, dumb, unmoving, and repetitive.

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.

Sinister 2 doesn’t know what it wants to be, and doesn’t add up to much.

A retread of such brainless, shameless lameness that it’s hard to imagine anyone begging for another installment.

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.

Not a moment of Sinister 2 is convincing or frightening.

Say one thing for these killer kids: they’re creative.