Just when you think the horror genre is dead out comes Insidious

Rating: 10/10 (28 June 2011)

James Wan (Saw) and Oren Peli (Paranormal Activity) the two people behind two of the most popular horror franchises in recent years deliver a surprising and terrifying movie in an almost dead genre.
A family movie into their new house and begins to think it's haunted when their son is put into a coma, parents Josh and Renai struggle to uncover the root of these strange happenings and the stress of the situation begins to take a toll on them as they realize that they are dealing with powers beyond human comprehension.
The plot is your run of the mill haunted house story but it's a different take on it, as they soon find out that it's not actually the house that's haunted.
Rose Byrne plays the caring mother who will do whatever it takes to get her son back and find the root of evil and Patrick Wilson is the father who doesn't really believe what his wife is saying about the house and just wants things back to to the way they were.
The acting is solid especially Byrne and Wilson who are always good and I really liked the different take on the haunted house story but the best part of the movie is just how terrifying it is, I was on the edge of my seat all the way through well apart from a few times where I jumped out of my seat scared to death, the movie left me with nightmares. I highly recommend this to people looking for a good scare that will leave you thinking about it for a couple of days or if your easily scared like me a couple of weeks.