Insidious mostly works

Rating: Null/10 (5 September 2011)

James Wan's Insidious is an oddly disjointed film. The first half is an extremely successful haunted house fright-fest, while the second half is an incredibly dense and illogical slog. In any horror film of this type, originality is not usually what you're going to get, and you don't here either. What you can hope for however is that the tried-and-true methods of creeping the audience out will be performed expertly, which, for the most part, the filmmakers manage to do. This is a composed and subdued horror film that relies on what you don't see as much as what you do to scare you. Surprising given that it's brought to us by the screenwriter and director of Saw. Read my full review at: http://themuddoctor.blogspot.com/2011/09/insidious.html