One of the Scariest Movies I Have Ever Seen

Rating: 7/10 (13 April 2011)

Without a doubt, this is the scariest movie I have ever seen. It isn't a movie that only makes stuff jump at you, 'Insidious' combines sudden creatures jumping out at you with disturbing, creepy figures you can't even bare to look at. I personally can't remember the last horror movie that actually mad me scared, but this I will say is the first to succeed.
Plot is very good, when a kid goes into a coma and his soul gets trapped in another world where demons roam, and attempt to possess his body in order to escape to the real world to live again. It may not seem scary, but trust me, it was really, really horrifying. The way they looked, with their weird smiles and close up images of them make you jump and scream.
It was clear that 70's and 80's horror films inspired this movie. With high pitched violins to build up the scene where something really creepy happens. Some scenes were so scary I had to cover an eye. It was the way the creatures looked that did most of the scares. Some of the predictable scenes scared you because you knew something was going to happen, but didn't know what it was. A movie with high pitched violins, really loud noises, and lots of screams is a descent way to define it.
The movie starts off kind of slow, but progressively gets better and better as it goes on. There are a few shaky camera angles and some dark shots that tried to make it feel scary, but you can't seen anything. In the shots like this, they only last for a few seconds before changing to give you a better view of the scene.
Yeah it gets kind of stupid near the end and Darth Maul was in it (why, again?), but it was rather enjoyable. However, there isn't much to go back to and I don't have any desire to see it again. But for a single viewing, Insidious was well worth the watch.
Insidious gets a 7/10.