Drag Me Back To Hell Again

Rating: 6/10 (29 April 2011)

Insidious is a magpie of a horror movie that steals ideas from other classics and weaves them together to make a fun movie - even if it will seem familiar to any horror movie fan.
The opening is J-horror-ish with The Grudge-ey type spooks inhabiting the house of a young family coping with the fact that one of their children has gone into an inexplicable coma.
We then move to "Poltergeist" territory as the family brings in kooky help to help rid them of the presence in their home and finally, the film evokes "Nightmare on Elm Street" in the last (and weakest) part of the film as those things which lurked in the shadows are finally exposed (and are frankly kind of disappointing).
But even with all these influences, the film it reminded me of most is Sam Raimi's "Drag Me To Hell" another movie that threw shock after scare at the viewers, contrasting eerie quiet with LOUD in an effort to lift the audience of its seat in unison. And just like DMTH, the impact is spoiled a little by a "twist" you will have predicted easily unless you have never seen a movie before ever
It's this over-familiarity that stops this movie from being more than a scary ride. It is a fun ride while it lasts but once it's over it will soon be forgotten.