Scary.....1st half was great...then it fell apart.

Rating: Null/10 (18 April 2011)

I have read many of the reviews and am amazed at what people today think is a great horror movie. Insidious is not. The first half of the movie is really good....very scary. It is scary in the sense of startling you......akin to someone in a haunted house jumping out and shouting "boo!". It doesn't have the slow build up scares of truly classic movies. The directors did a much better job of that in Saw. But I must admit that the first part was scary. Then the second part of the movie hit and it was crash and burn. First, they bring in the psychic lady and her two bumbling oafs. It was a blatant rip off of "Poltergeist"...which was much better. Then we find out that the boy in the coma is really off in a world of spirits who want his body. However, the main one is a red faced devil who looks more like a character from Star Wars. Aren't these supposed to be dead people walking around??? Where did the demon come from??? It made no sense. Also, they were all around the boys body....why didn't they just take it? They had no problem taking the man's body at the end. But the scenes from the Further were just ridiculous. Who was the little boy who gave him directions? Who were the people in the house? Why did the one shoot the other three? But when the demon was there sharpening his Freddy Krueger blades on a grinding wheel with "Tiptoe through the Tulips" playing....I was laughing. The wheels totally came off. Many things didn't quite make sense in the plot. The demon was laughable.
All in all.....I didn't like the movie. The first part was very good. Second part was terrible.
Ending was good.
If you want to see a low budget horror flick that scares you, but doesn't take much thought.....go see it. If you are looking to see a classic good horror flick.....stay away.