Thursday, February 23, 2012

Movie- Insidious



I am going to look at a movie from last year that I re -watched last night- Insidious. 

This movie comes from the creators of Paranormal Activity (which was more disturbing than scary) and Saw (which was more gory than scary.) and tells the story about Renai (Rose Bryne) and her loving husband (Patrick Wilson) who move house (the start of many ghost stories).

As usually occurs, strange things begin to happen (books that are packed away find themselves on the floor for example and things mysteriously vanishing-classic stuff). There is an attic, but strangely, it is not used much in the horror aspect.

Suddenly and unexpectedly their son, Dolton (Ty Simpkins), falls into a coma, that their doctor cannot explain, as he can find nothing medically wrong.
This is where the movie takes on another face and the really frightening things begin to happen. (Strange and creepy voices on the baby monitor, late night knocking on doors, the front door open by itself after being locked, a bloody hand print on Dalton's white sheets and so on.)

After seeing apparitions on night, they wisely decide to move but the horror follows them.
Renai sees a rocking horse rocking on it's own accord and a ghost child running amok.
Disturbed by a couple of further events, they call in paranormal investigators, who have their own encounters in the house.

I do not want to give anything away, other than the story takes a turn, that at first did not sit well, but on the second watching, I enjoyed. The last third of the film needs and open mind though. There are a few (well for me) silly moments, nut they do not ruin the film.
Of course, there is a lovely twist at the end!

It is scary and brings back the music, sound effects and ghostly things from the classic 80's movies. Just for the scares I would recommend this movies. On of the most frightening, real horrors I have seen in ages.

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