Slighty Above Par with Most People, But Hard to categorize!

Rating: Null/10 (18 September 2011)

What we have is a story of a normal family suddenly thrust into a disturbing situation in which their son, Dalton (Ty Simpkins), falls into a mysterious coma the doctors have know way of explaining.
********* W A R N I N G ******** This review contains spoilers (explanations that could spoil it for you, so if you are thinking about seeing this film, please don't get mad at me for spilling the details).
Little do they know that there is much more to this endless sleep than meets the eye as they, seeking outside assistance, explore the spiritual and paranormal implications, of Astral Projection, and out of body experience few films have delved in to.
I'm seriously wondering whether to recommend this film to ghost/horror film buffs or not! One good thing about this film is that it took you way out there in the weeds as as far as a new form of weirdness. In most reviews, though most would point out that the first part of the film should have just been erased and trashed in lieu of the fact that that's about when it started to pick up.
Unfortunately, that's about the time where someone falls asleep in or out of the theater. There are a few campy/cheesy things in the onset of the film that just aren't too awfully scary for the average horror movie goer, however, James Wan succeeded to chill in the theater to give the creepy suspense going with the music in Dolby surround sound, but didn't work at home as much.
Around the time that first lady showed up, the mother-in-law Lorraine (Barbara Hershey) that's when it got pretty stupid. Like, we are supposed to know that this person was the mother-in-law? NOT! That didn't make much sense, just as it didn't when the mother-in-law started saying, "I've seen visions and dreams". Now, if you drop that part & pick up with the kid in a coma with the parents freaked out about the so-called psychic/paranormal bug patrol led by Elise Ranier (Lin Shaye), then we got something.
Apart from a few inconsistencies/goofs like the screen door on the house door vanishes/reappears, & Dalton moving his hand lying on floor in a coma, this film could possibly be ranked as up there with Tobe Hooper's 1982 film Poltergeist, which was produced by Steven Spielberg and starred Craig T. Nelson, Jo Beth Williams, & 6 year old Heather O'Rourke who played the child name Carol Anne who got somehow physically abducted by apparitions from another dimensional plane. Of course, there really couldn't be anything more spooky about the Poltergeist films since Carol Anne, who was played by Heather O'Rourke actually died during the filming of Poltergeist III in 1988, she suffered flu-like symptoms. The symptoms were a result of intestinal blockage, which ultimately claimed her life. The whiny screaming of Carol Anne's name, which is either spoken or screamed in Poltergeist III 121 times would truthfully unnerve anybody.
In the case of Insidious, we soon find a few things that we can sink our teeth into, such as the creepy guy that constantly wants to play an old vinyl recording of Tiny Tim's "Tip-Toe through the tulips" & the fact that the father somehow has the same power of leaving his body while asleep. I forgot to mention the scariness of the infrared view-master machine along with séance that goes bananas. What's not really explained in this film is to why there are actually physical beings that are able to totally appear from this so-called "Further" area & cause audible issues as well as trashing up the place.