The first film in a long time that made me jump.

Rating: 8/10 (8 March 2012)

I've seen a lot of horror films and many of them made jump almost out of my seat, most of them being well known classics and a few of them were not so well known, the last horror film to make me jump was before seeing INSIDIOUS was called WHISPER, I saw it three years ago.
INSIDIOUS was a huge surprise for me, I just rented it at the rental shop and went to watch it without even checking whether it was R-rated or PG13 because I didn't really care at the time, however its not a gore fest or one of those annoying teen horror movies, its actually a really good scary haunted house horror, very well acted by the cast with Lin Shaye playing one of the most memorable characters in the film, brilliantly directed by James Wan and the script provided by Leigh Whannell makes a big effort to dodge all the obvious and annoying genre clichés.
Overall, horror fans ought to be pleased with this film as it delivers enough scares and never really resorts to cheap thrills and to be honest after I watched the film I thought it was probably R-rated so to find out it was actually PG13 came as a surprise as I figured it could've been too intense for a low rating.