Z-View: “Insidious”
The Pitch: ”Hey, let’s make a really scary haunted house, possessed kid movie without the gore!
“Let’s do it!”
The Tagline: “It’s not the house that’s haunted!”
The Overview: *** Beware – spoilers are found below ***
Renai and Josh Lambert recently moved into a new home with their three young children. Strange noises and happenings begin to occur and their son, Dalton falls into a coma. Doctors at the hospital can find no reason for the coma. Months later Dalton (still in a coma) is moved back home. When the supernatural events begin to intensify Renai and Josh move the family to a new house.
Almost immediately the strange happenings begin in the new home. A psychic team is called in and it becomes clear that the house isn’t haunted… Dalton is!
The Good
- Leigh [Saw] Whannell has created a story that puts a twist on the classic haunted house tale. There are plenty of creepy moments and a few great scares!
- Director James [Saw] Wan knows how to scare an audience!
- Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, and Barbara Hershey do an excellent job as a normal family trying to figure out what is going on.
- The fact that the family doesn’t wait too long before moving from what they perceive to be a haunted house.
- There is just the right touch of comedy when the two paranormal researchers show up in the second half of the movie.
- The ending!
The Bad:
- How you’d feel moving away from a haunted house only to have the supernatural events continue to intensify in your new home.
- The second half of the movie isn’t as scary, but is still a lot of fun!
The Ugly:
- Traveling to the other side.
- How you sound when you scream out loud at some of the scary parts.
Rating: 4 out of 5
