About as scary as an episode of Power Rangers.

Rating: Null/10 (28 July 2011)

I saw the trailer and thought this film would get me pretty rattled. I don't really like horror films because I don't particularly like knowingly being scared but, being a man, I didn't admit that and casually went into the cinema with my friends and watched this film.
What a spectacular misconception I had about Insidious.
The first 10 or so minutes were okay. There's a part where the woman and baby are alone in their new house where there is some unsettling whispering coming through on the baby monitor. Unfortunately, that was the scariest part of the film. It went dramatically downhill from there, trying way too hard to be scary and failing miserably.
As said, the main demon in Insidious is shown way too much, removing the mystery from the thing completely.
If it wasn't for the fact that I descended into laughter about half-way through and continued intermittently for the rest of it, I would have been pretty bored whilst watching this. Even my friend next to me was laughing at it. It's just ridiculous. Unfortunately she was the only one to do so, as it seemed my other two friends thought that the story was 'amazing' and that it was 'scary'. It really wasn't.
To top it off, the music throughout is terrible and cheesy - it's more than likely supposed to be that way, but this is one of the reasons why this movie sucks. They try to add elements of humour and classic horror into this, which just kills the (apparent) dominant genre (horror).
What did I like about this film? Not much to be honest. The cinematography was good, although borrowed heavily from concepts like Paranormal Activity. The ending was okay, although it was made pretty obvious before it happened.
BOTTOM LINE: If you don't mind a cheesy film, or a film with horror scenes that are so bad that they're funny, then yeah, maybe watch this film - otherwise, I would suggest you stay WELL clear. It's NOT scary and to be honest, overall, it's NOT good either. It could have been so much better.