Insidious - Film Review
I'm seeing Insidious: The Last Key on Saturday instead of Friday, so I'm starting the marathon today.
Insidious is directed by James Wan and stars Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Lin Shaye, Ty Simpkins and Barbara Hershey.
Plot
Josh (Patrick Wilson) and Renai (Rose Byrne) Lambert move into a new home with their kids Dalton (Ty Simpkins), Foster (Andrew Astor) and Cali. What they don't know is that the house is haunted. The next evening, Dalton falls off a ladder in the attic and falls into a coma, but the doctors can't find any problems. After strange things start happening, they move into a new home only for it continue there. Josh's mother Lorraine (Barbara Hershey) calls medium Elise (Lin Shaye), who concludes that Dalton is a gifted traveler who is capable of leaving his physical body and traveling through astral projection and that his spirit is lost in a realm called the Further that is not meant for humans. Lorraine reveals that Josh is also a gifted traveler and goes in to find Dalton's spirit.
Review
Insidious is actually good for a PG-13 horror film, there aren't a lot of those out there. This is also brought to us by James Wan, who brought us the Saw series, The Conjuring series, and is directing Aquaman. There's one scene that shows a chalkboard, and on it is a drawing of Billy from the Saw series. The first Saw was good... haven't seen the others, which is my thoughts on the Insidious series as of now, I've only seen the first one, and I haven't seen any of the others.
I actually first saw this movie a few months back, when I was watching horror movies while preparing to go to Halloween Horror Nights in Orlando, and that was a great night for me.
I pretty much went over the story in the Plot section on here, so I really don't have much else to say.
Let's talk about the Further, it's pretty much Purgatory, between Heaven and Hell. I can't think of much to talk about. So let's talk about two ghosts from the Further.
The Lipstick-Faced Demon, or Darth Maul, is the demon wanting to possess Dalton and (possibly?) controls the Further and really likes Tiny Tim. He likes to play with marionettes and has a theatre-like chamber and likes to sharpen his nails.
The Bride in Black, or that old woman ghost with the candle, is a ghost who they said tried to possess Josh's physical body when he was a kid, and Elise even called it a "parasite". They said that the only way to get rid of The Bride was to repress all memories and hide all photographs with The Bride in Black in them. The movie even ends with The Bride blowing out a candle. Hopefully we learn more about this character in the second movie.
Let's talk about the cast and then I'll wrap this thing up.
Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne are pretty good as Josh and Renai Lambert, they're two of the best actors in the movie.
Lin Shaye is really good as Elise, the medium who tries to stop Darth Maul from spiritnapping this kid, she also has two paranormal investigators with her, one actually played by Leigh Whannell, the writer of this film, who are like the investigators from Poltergeist, which this whole movie is very similar too. Turns out she also did this with Josh when he was young, and then at the end gets killed by Josh when she takes a picture of him, and then later we realize that he's possessed by The Bride again.
Overall, Insidious is a great horror film, one of the best of the decade. It is a rather creepy and scary horror film for something that's PG-13. I didn't get scared though, it takes a lot to scare me. I have never been scared by a movie once and I wish I could see a movie that does that. I'm getting sidetracked here.
Insidious is great, scary, James Wan did a great job and I'm getting a bit more excited for Insidious: The Last Key. Stay tuned until Saturday, when I review The Last Key and keep up with reviews for all the movies in this series.
9/10
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