...just more of the same.

Rating: 3/10 (12 November 2017)

Well, it tried. This James Wan dude thinks himself as the king of horror and stuff, but he ain't. The simple fact that he worked on those "Saw" films makes me loose respect for him. Those things were ridiculous! So, obviously, the saga was a bit hit.
"Insidious" was a suggestion from a friend, since we like similar movies. Then, I saw that Patrick Wilson and James Wan (I didn't know about his connection with "Saw" yet) were int it, and since they worked in "The Conjuring" (which is pretty good) I was expecting something good.
I'll admit that I forced myself to watch it until the end. No, it wasn't scary. Wan' s vision of horror is simple: you look now and see nothing, you turn around and "boo, I'm behind you" and violins playing in the highest pitch possible. That's not horror, that's just...annoying.
The entire film is a collection of clichés and is completely predictable. It begins with the common formula: "Oh, we're a young family, struggling to make ends meet while pursuing a dream. We're good and kind parents of some little children. In spite of the difficulties, love keeps us together. We've just moved into a new house, so I hope nothing bad happens.".
But, of course, bad things do happen. And the first thing the mom thinks is that the house is haunted. Duh, obviously, uh? And even never going to church, she calls in the local priest. After all, all priests know of demonic possessions, how to guide people through the problems, and whenever you call them, they'll come right away. Yeah, I don't really think that priests have much to do on their daily lives.
So, the clichés never end. You already know what's going to happen on the next 10 or 20 minutes. Why did I watch it? Well, I was curious, it was late at night and I didn't feel like browsing and picking movies again...it sucks.
Most of the clichés are the basic: problems from the past reappear, the children are the targets, the mom suffers and nearly goes insane, the father is skeptic at first but then believes her, the child already knew about those things and had been drawing about it for a long time (and no on never noticed it), some tech dudes walk in with cameras and other instruments in order to pick up and electromagnetic fields the ghosts leave behind, the old lady shows up and is an expert in the subject and can talk "to the other side", where the dead reside and suffer forever, the evil dead want the child's mind. And, of course, there's a demon.
Wow, being dead must suck. Pain and suffering forever, having to fight a demon to win a healthy living body, just so you can inflict pain upon others.
And it goes on and on and on until it reaches its predictable end.