Bringing the Yummyness Back to Horror . . .

Rating: Null/10 (6 April 2011)

As it has always been, here and there come along the stars of the genre that fixate amongst orbiting imitations and "Make-a-buckers." With "Insidious" we see magic, spiritualism and it's eerie intrigue of supernatrual tricks and mind games. The ghosts of insidious are evil in their playfulness as they scream to be heard, seen and felt whether on screen or not. For those really bored with searing "Hack-me-ups" and unable to groove with the documentary or video journal styles of some contemporaries, we have a stylish film that breathes with its seemingly dead ancestors of the last century such as "Poltergeist," "The Entity," "The Changeling," "Rosemary's Baby" and, of course, "The Exorcist." In some of the scoring and shots I even felt a few flares of the original "Black Christmas." This is cinema that feeds on the imagination of "What if's" and "Wouldn't it be "F'd" up if that happened?" The sweetness of a creepy ghost tale that makes you smile at its clever inventions.
The story follows through with a mixture of conventions and reversals of them topping dashes of original ideas unique to this film. Some fantastic lighting and Gothic images invading a Victorian home with a modern family running for normalcy as dark forces culminate and mount against them. Hunger for the living and life dominates their hunger as they lurk and wait, watching.
I'd say give this one a shot and open your mind and imagination that is hopefully not dead yet.