A new concept but silly haunted house style movie
Insidious (2011), PG-13, 102min
A family moves into an old house and begins to think that there is something wrong with the house when their young son inexplicably falls into a deep coma. Josh (Patrick Wilson) and Renai (Rose Byrne) struggle to uncover the root cause of their son's condition, they start to discover some truths as they experience paranormal activities around the house...
Insidious is based on this new concept of paranormal activity...which I have never seen (in other movies) or heard of before. I don't want to give any spoiler for those of you who haven't seen it yet but it's basically a concept that, some people can "detach" their spirit from their physical bodies and can travel around....and that causes many paranormal activities including getting haunted by evil ghosts...etc
I guess, if you are interested in paranormal activities, then you might be familiar with this concept. That being said, at least from movie point of view, it is fresh and intriguing. And I think the director and the actors did fine job to visualize this new concept - I don't have any problem with that.
The problem is that Insidious forgot what the horror movie is supposed to be. The horror movie is supposed to scare people, correct? Your flesh skin is supposed to crawl, you are horrified, frightened...you name it. And that's exactly Insidious fails to do so. Yea, conceptually speaking, it is fresh and interesting to watch but in this current movie industry where there are simply too many horror flicks (both good and bad) and many of them tend to follow same style/format now days...Insidious is nothing special and it also bring some silliness to your home. There are some "creepy" scenes but that's about it - it gets dumber and dumber as it goes. Visually speaking, it really gets disappointing as the movie goes on. When the movie is powered by all those silly visuals, the concept itself starts to look more stupid as well. So, I'm not going to lie, after I finished watching this movie, all I got was "wow, that was stupid movie" rather than "wow, I won't be able to sleep tonight".
Nonetheless, I would say that Insidious is slightly above average horror flicks, so if you are searching for a new horror movie to watch, it maybe worth a try. However, I can promise you, if you are experienced horror movie watcher like myself and looking for the "real" horror movie, Insidious is far, far away from being satisfactory .
Overall grade: C
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