Waste of Time

Rating: 1/10 (31 July 2011)

After reading many of the reviews listed here and Entertainment Weekly's quote, "Insidious has some of the most shivery and indelible images I've seen in any horror film in decades," and WCBS Radio's, "Most terrifying film since The Exorcist," there was no way I could miss this film.
To compare this sham of a film with a classic like The Exorcist is an insult to real horror film fans everywhere and apparently EW hasn't been to a horror film in decades. As far as all the other reviews that list this waste of time as being one of the scariest films, I just don't get it.
It was nothing more than a low-budget amateur attempt at a Poltergeist remake, and a really bad one at that. Apparently Barbara Hershey needed the check as well as the rest of the cast. They all acted as if they were thinking of somewhere else they'd rather be. I kept waiting for all those really scary moments that everyone was talking aboutI'm still waiting. I laughed throughout the film, especially when Elise waits till Josh gets the crap beat out of him by the big bad demon, before she tells him he is stronger than the demon while looking for his son.
The story was a farce, the acting was lame, and I've seen scarier demons at my front door on Halloween.
The only horrors about this film were that I had to hear Tip Toe Through the Tulips after all these years of trying to block it from memory and that I paid $20 for this complete waste of time.