One of the best psychological thrillers of the year

Rating: 9/10 (3 June 2019)

If you're really into horror movies and you want to get the daylights scared out of you and stay on edge the whole entire movie, Insidious Chapter 1 will knock your socks off. This psychological thriller plays with your mind and knows how to get you frightened as the music of the film builds, makes your skin crawl and the acting is so superb, that you really get a feel for the situations to come during the blockbuster.
The movie begins immediately with a group of violins playing high pitched tune to really set the tone for the movie as the tone stays the same for the entire movie and you will not be off edge at any point during the film. The plot begins with a married couple named Josh and Renai Lambert moving into a new home recently and their son named Dalton going into an unexplainable coma as his vital signs are normal and there are no signs of damage even though he fell from a ladder in the attic. The fact that the cause of the coma is unknown causes a lot of stress on the family, and Renai Lambert specifically is looking for anything that could answer as to why Dalton went into a coma. Then one day Josh's mother Lorraine's friend Elise then tells the couple that dalton isn't in a medically induced coma, rather he had apparently been able to travel to other planes and dimensions. He had apparently traveled too far to the point where he couldn't come back, and that his physical body is here but his spiritual body isn't. Elise then states that the only way to get Dalton back is to have Josh go back into the further due to how he is also able to astral project just like Dalton. Elise puts Josh in a trance so that he's able to enter the plane known as "the further". Josh eventually gets to the demons lair and finds Dalton there and they both evade the demon attacking them and they both get back into their bodies and just barely get back in time. After all of the action filled scenes towards the end of the film, the film portrays a much calmer mood as the high pitched screechy violin music stops and instead peaceful music was playing. This all abruptly ends with a cliffhanger when Josh gets possessed and strangles Elise to death and Renai finds a photo of Josh with a demon lady behind him showing that he is possessed and that's where the film ends.
The music easily was the best part, and made the movie what it is. If it weren't for the music that they used, it wouldn't reel in viewers as well and it likely wouldn't get the viewers attention for the whole entire movie as Insidious did. It continues throughout the movie, keeping me on the edge of my seat. In addition to show how good Insidious is in my opinion, note that the director of Insidious also directed legendary horror movies such as Saw and The Conjuring - both of these psychological thrillers made an insane amount of money in the box office.
The only negative that I had about this film was that they made some scenes a little too dramatic when they didn't need it to be. Like for example, in one scene early in the movie, they show the Lambert family getting for ready for the day and the feel of the scene gave off a very intense and stressful vibe to it, and it was unnecessary because it was early in the movie and there was no drama going on at all.
If you truly want to see a great psychological thriller that really plays with your mind and knows how to toy with it, creating excitement, the movie that would fit that desire would be Insidious Chapter 1. The music sets the movie up perfectly with it's skin-crawling and eerie vibe, the way the movie makes you feel the character's situations, and overall how spooked anyone will get while watching this masterpiece. It's a great ride.