Not your average haunted house horror flick...

Rating: 8/10 (13 June 2015)

Insidious takes a very different and original approach to the typical haunted house theme we have seen countless times in movies. Let me start off by saying the atmosphere throughout the movie is amazing: the way they combined creepy music with disturbing imagery is incredible and the filmmakers did a great job in creating this. Also, great performances by basically everyone cast for this movie. I also find it quite amazing when a horror movie can disturb you with a minimum amount of blood and this movie shows that it is possible to do so. I do think the movie has its flaws, though. One of these is borrowing the basic idea for the movie from Poltergeist, in which the little girl gets pulled into this spiritual world and the parents are trying to get her out of there. Also, there are one or two really unnecessary jump scares in the movie but mostly James Wan knows how to build tension and execute these very well because most of the jump scares in the movie are rightfully earned and my issue is just with one or two. Props to the crew for creating such a creepy and original movie with a pretty small budget of about only $1.5 Million. But I think the small budget helps the movie in overall creepiness, from the lighting they used to the practical and great makeup the spirits have in the film, great job. I also loved the fact that a minimum amount of CGI was used, which helps up the creepiness. I had a lot of fun with Insidious and, aside from a few issues, it is mostly an original and creepy horror movie.