More of a comedy than a horror film

Rating: 1/10 (2 April 2011)

I went to see this movie with a few of my friends today. It was a waste of time and seven bucks. I went into this movie without really being certain of how I felt about it. Usually I go into a movie thinking it will be good or that it will suck, but honestly, when I walked into that theater, I had no idea what the movie was about or what it would be like other than an "it looks scary" from some preppy chick in my geography class. I will tell you this right now: it was not scary. At all.
The movie started with its title being thrown obnoxiously at the screen with Psycho-like music playing in the background. It was annoying and loud and unnecessary. The fact that they continued to do it throughout the movie rather frequently only agitated me more.
The movie was predictable and relied mostly on things suddenly jumping out accompanied by humongous banging noises to scare you. However, as soon as you got over the initial shock and saw how ridiculously bad the monster or whatever you were looking at was, you started bursting out laughing. I'm not even kidding. The entire theater was laughing most of the time.
Of course, Insidious was not meant to be a comedy, and the worst part is that they continued to try to keep it serious, despite how ridiculous it was. The parts where they attempted to develop the plot were boring, and I spent most of the movie just dying to get out of the theater. It would have been better off if they had originally intended it to be a comedy or you know, a parody of Poltergeist, considering the plots were pretty similar.
I'm really not sure how this movie managed to get the rating it has on here, considering it was simply ridiculous. I'm also not sure how anyone managed to find it scary either, considering the entire theater was laughing throughout the duration of the movie. Last time I checked, laughter meant something was funny, not scary.