Another piece of Hollywood Garbage

Rating: 2/10 (13 July 2016)

Is it just me, or do mainstream, Hollywood horror films nowadays suck? I'll start this off by saying it's very possible it's me-after all, I've seen pretty much nothing but rave reviews for movies like Insidious, Sinister, The Conjuring 2 and The Purge, and I've hated them all. In fact, hate is too strong a word for it requires a certain level of passion that I cannot find myself to waste on garbage like this, which I find incredibly boring. (Before ending this paragraph, I will say that I did like the first Conjuring, but I digress...).
The story here is extremely basic and cliché. The eldest male child in a young family falls from a ladder and subsequently into a coma. The mother starts to experience strange anomalies in the house, things out of place, moving chairs, and more of the like...At her wits end she does what any woman desperate for answers would do in a rational world...Seek out the aid of paranormal investigators and psychics! Soon it is discovered that her soon is a master at 'Astral Projection', and is not really in a coma, but rather, trapped in a dangerous dimension where an 'insidious' spirit is attempting to usurp his body. Just so happens his father (Patrick Wilson) was once a master at 'Astral Projection' as well, and in order to save his son, has to travel to the same dark dwelling where malicious spirits lurk, and bring his child back before and inevitable case of possession occurs.
Now, that synopsis could probably prove appropriate for 90% of the supernatural/'horror' films that have come out in the last ten years. I couldn't help while watching it but think, 'My god, I could have written this script when I was 12 years old!'
I initially had become interested in Insidious because so many reviewers made claims that it was perhaps the 'most terrifying film of the decade', and what with a PG-13 rating, I became interested because it obviously had to rely on tactics other than gore to so thoroughly 'frighten' the 'herd'. Maybe the vast majority of the population who watched Insidious aren't really die hard horror fans like myself, but even so, I was fighting to keep myself awake, THAT's how incredibly boring and dull I found this film.
A lot of the positive reviews praise 'Insidious' for its use of 'sound' and 'disturbing imagery'. I suppose there referring to the screeching violins and smiling men and women in corpse paint. I mean, the thing is so cliché that if I were to teach a class on how to make an unoriginal, and boring horror movie, I would choose 'Insidious' and 'Sinister' as first pick candidates to display the finer points of boring the audience with conventional and lame techniques to 'scare' weak minded people.
I guess I shouldn't really be surprised. All the good horror movies seem to be coming out of Spain, France or Britain nowadays, and the few that come out of the United States are indie flicks like 'Dead Girl' or 'Excision'. The days of classics like 'Hellraiser', 'Alien' and 'Event Horizon' are clearly long gone. Hollywood's found out what makes money-cheap thrills and forgettable plots...Oh and apparently Patrick Wilson helps too.