Sinister Opening Two Minutes Review

The film 'Sinister' is a supernatural horror film directed and written by Scott Derrickson also co-written by C. Robert Cargill. This film stars Ethan Hawke who also starred in 'White Fang'. This film completely shocked me, it had some of the cliches in a typical supernatural horror, the creepy ghoul who likes to murder people for some sort of ritual, the ghoul in this film is called 'Bughuul' and he likes to get the children to kill their entire family so that he can take them into his realm and consume their souls. Another cliche in this film is creepy murderous little girls in nighties, this type of murderous child is similar to 'The Ring's' own creepy child and also 'The Grudge's' creepy child, the only difference however is that she's human and not a ghost/curse. Moving to a new house is also a massive cliche and normally where the problems start in these films, other than these, there's not many cliches as the film is completely different from the other horrors i've seen, this horror did have a lot of unsettling images and videos involved which do stick in your mind long after you've seen it, this could be a clever tactic used by the writers and producers to make sure their film is memorable.
The opening scene is a family standing next to tree with their hands tied behind their backs and a bag over each of their heads also with a noose around each of their necks, immediately you feel uncomfortable as you know what is going to happen within seconds, the branch leading into the bushes is then cut by somebody out of the shot, to hide their identity, the family is then raised into the air by their necks, the family start kicking their legs as they're being strangled, within a minute or two everyone is dead, the audience know that somebody has done this to them but they also videoed it, the audience would now be feeling uncomfortable and possibly frightened as that was just the opening scene.
The way this film has been created however is incredible as all the deaths involved do look gruesomely real and so makes the audience possibly believe for a few minutes that it could be real before trying to convince themselves that it's not, this is a great effect that all films try to achieve.
The soundtracks at first can sound calm and relaxing but the imagery is of a family being brutally murdered, this really plays with your mind because where you're hearing calm and relaxing music you're then tricked into watching a grisly murder. Other soundtracks have voices on as if they're possibly struggling with breathing and so keeps that eerie ambience about it.
In this film we're informed about an occult where it's a ritual when children's souls are consumed by 'Bughuul' but to accomplish this feat, he must get the child to murder everybody in their family first, while video taping it. The father (the antagonist) of the family we're watching finds the tapes in the loft of their new house, the tapes are named innocent names such as 'Family Hanging Out' the video tape will show the family running around outside playing but then cross cut to the scene of them hanging from the tree in their own garden, missing one child.
There's not much to go by on the opening two minutes except the fact that the film will include murders, and the murder has been filmed on an old video tape system.