A sequel to Sinister (2012), it stars James Ransone, reprising his role from the original film, and Shannyn Sossamon.

Sinister 2 was a co-production of Alliance Films, IM Global, Blumhouse Productions, Steady Aim Productions, Tank Caterpillar, Inc., and Automatik Entertainment, and released on August 21, 2015, by Focus Features through their Gramercy Pictures banner in the United States, and Entertainment One in Canada and the United Kingdom.

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

Dylan is visited nightly by a group of ghostly children who coerce him to watch "home movies" of families being murdered in various ways, including being strung upside down over a lake and decapitated by alligators (Fishing Trip), bound and gagged, and fatally eletrocuted in a flooded kitchen (Kitchen Remodel), and tied up with holiday lights and buried alive in the snow on Christmas Day (Christmas Morning).

He arrives at the farmhouse, but finds the family living there, telling Courtney he is there to investigate the church where a murder took place.

The children show Dylan the video of the church murders, depicting a family being nailed to the floor by their hands and feet and have rats burrow through their abdomens, leaving them to bleed out (Sunday Service).

A possessed Zach douses his family in three separate trails of gasoline, lights Clint on fire, and films his death.

Bughuul appears and as punishment Zach's body decomposes rapidly, with a cloth projection screen bursting into flames, causing the house to catch on fire as the Deputy, Courtney, and Dylan escape.

Later, while collecting his things to leave with Courtney and Dylan, the Deputy finds the ham radio in his motel room.

A sequel to Sinister (2012) was announced to be in the works in March 2013, with writers Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill returning, but the former not directing as he did on the first film.

[7] In April 2014, it was announced that Ciarán Foy would direct the film, and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Charles Layton, Xavier Marchand, and Patrice Théroux would executive produce the sequel with eOne Entertainment.

The site's critical consensus reads, "Sinister 2 has a few ingredients that will be familiar to fans of the original; unfortunately, in this slapdash second installment, none of them are scary anymore.