Fantastic horror. Just straight up done right.

Rating: 9/10 (1 June 2015)

Let me tell you a story. A story about a couple dudes who love their horror. Me and my brother had this thing for several years, where we watched a horror movie almost every night. Some nights even two! We loved "ghost movies" maybe the most. So we were always on the look-out for those.
Then one night we got a hold of this one, Insidious. We hadn't heard of it, but we gave it a whirl. As I said, we watched a lot, and a lot of what we watched was pretty bad. But his one, oh, it just blew us away.
There are plenty of reviews on this one, so I won't go into too much detail. But the thing with Insidious, is not that it's a revolutionary movie you've never seen the likes of before. It is that it does what it tries to do, so very, very good. The stuff that happens is just cool, and creepy. (The scene with the record player and the creepy song, in particular) It just has these small details that not everyone gets. And these details are what makes this a horror classic.
In a haunted house movie, a very important part is what kind of creepy stuff happens. Not everyone understands this. A common mistake is to pace it wrong. In Insidious it is very well paced, and the incidents that happen are really cool. And it is genuinely scary. Scary movies never really scare me, but this one gets pretty close.
Insidious goes to show that there are still excellent horror movies to be made. And that on a budget of one million dollars? James Wan, you know your damn stuff!