Sometimes the scariest things come from within'

Rating: 6/10 (26 March 2012)

After thousand of recommendations to this movie, I finally rented it and watched with some friends. Many stated this is one of the scariest movies from the last years-- and I must ratify that! Art direction and directing itself are quite professional, making the atmosphere become scary enough for you to feel like turning the television off! The colors are contrasted and confusing; James Wan "accidently" shows some random (and creepy) faces in the dark when you're not ready for this, so you can imagine how many jumps this film may provoke. So that's it, the execution of this film is brilliant! Now I must complain about the story. If this plot was at least original, I could easily give it an 8-- but it is NOT. The get go plot is just like "The Strangers"'s, with too few differences. The table reunion scene is too similar to "The Others" and "Skeleton Key". The masks are too similar to "Saw"-- which is understandable, since Wan is the writer of that franchise. All in all, "Insidious" is a good movie (when comparing with the rest of 2011's), but would be much better if the plot wasn't so saturated. Six is a fair rating.