Insidious - Unscary..ous

Insidious. The posters, which we've all seen, have an evil looking boy on the front who has writing in his eyeballs. It says 'Insidious' in the left and 'is' in the right. Underneath is the tag line 'It's not the house that's haunted.' ....Insidious is what? I ask!

I still don't know what this poster is on about, am I missing something?

The title sequence featured a black and white tour of each room in 'the house' accompanied with a dark but simple piano score. It whispered in my ear promises of a continuous spooky atmosphere and seductive cinematography.

We are introduced to a family who have recently moved into our newly acquainted title sequence house. There isn't much in terms of character development before the narrative catalyst event. Dalton, the youngest son doesn't wake up one day. The parents find out that Dalton is in an unexplained coma.

Up to this point the movie leans towards the idea that he might become evil or possessed and start doing some freaky shit. But no, this isn't what happens. It's not as obvious as you think, which some people are probably thankful for. It turns out that he wandered off somewhere in his sleep and now his subconscious mind is being held hostage by a demon. Ok...so are you really happy with it not being obvious now?

My fright meter was unfortunately not satisfied enough...I don't know, maybe this is just because I am a fearless hero. Maybe it's different for civilians like yourself. It just came across as one of those horror films that is perfect for thirteen year olds to watch at a sleepover in order to scare themselves silly and show off about it the next day at school.

You're probably thinking right now that I must be one of those people who prefers gore horror to the psychological sub-genre. Well, you are incorrect. There are the odd scares in the movie which I enjoyed, I would have liked to have seen more spirits and had less of the demon talk.

And what was with the Darth Maul demon-lookalike? I was half expecting to see Darth Sidious pop by in demon land seeing as his name is in the title.


Considering this film seems to be about demon land 'The Further', I would have loved to have seen more of it. There was potential for some of those promises I had been given in the beginning to have finally been granted. But no, this is why I am not satisfied, even the climax of the film was weak. If Insidious had been a potential mate it would have been rubbish in bed. The end.

If you like this film WonderOri recommends: Sinister, Paranormal Activity....Star Wars?