New horror film “Sinister,” Ethan Hawke plays a struggling true-crime novelist named Ellison Oswalt

'Sinister': Scott Derrickson on horror … and Tavis Smiley
Los Angeles Times
In the new horror film “Sinister,” Ethan Hawke plays a struggling true-crime novelist named Ellison Oswalt, a writer who, in the name of research and cheap rent, moves his family into the same home where a couple and two of their children were hanged ...