the scariest movie i've seen, and I've seen a lot of scary movies

Rating: 9/10 (16 May 2011)

Rather than focus on gore and torture like the Saw films, James Wan focuses more on fearsome demonic forces to terrify viewers. Insidious gets all the things that scare us the most and puts it into one film. Eerie fast paced music, horrific demons, and astral projection. There are more than a few things that go bump in the night, and day! In Insidious, Wan uses the day time as a place for demons to show their face as well as we see the horrific red faced demon more than a few times and a man in a black coat as well as a small dancing demon which makes us wonder what the hell is going on until we realize that we're getting scared by the eeriness. Whannell's script is great leading the actors in the right direction of making us anxious and Wan's direction leads us to time and time again become more and more frightened with whats to come in every single scene with out ears covered and feet up off the floor with fear of a loud noise or a hand coming out from under the seat.
I am confident this film will scare even the toughest of movie-goers because James Wan has made this film so we can get scared, putting a twist on the haunted house genre and let me tell you, he has succeeded on every level.