ClichÃ©s galore. Still fun to laugh at.

Rating: 2/10 (5 April 2016)

Insidious is another one to follow this late horror film tendency which started with the conjuring, to throw all the classic horror film elements onto the grill and shamelessly pretend to achieve something new or fresh, actually not achieving anything at all.
As it starts, you can already take your notebook out and start checking on your clichÃ© list: Old widow ghost, check, moving to an old haunted house check, baby monitors check, child's drawings check, rocking toy horse check, skeptical father, kid ghost, twins ghost, Gothic vampire ghost, esoteric technicians installing monitors, esoteric rites, the only missing stuff was the monster of Dr. Frankenstein, the mummy and green slime dripping off the walls.
After all that mess, you get to see the father go into the beyond to rescue his child from a pedophile bondage sex loving demon, which instead of horrifying is ridiculous and cheesy as it can get. And predictably, an evil twist the end which of course is the trampoline production wanted to leave there in order to have a stating point for the obvious sequels, because, you never want to stop milking the cookie cutter horror films cow.
Seriously, this film is far from horror. Is mostly an exercise for cinema students on how much used resources and clichÃ©s can ruin the very fabric of art. Think of this. How many changes should yo make to this film to turn it into a Scary Movie 9 or even an Adventure Time episode? Not many. That's how not scary it is.