Dark & Creepy....My Kind Of Movie

Rating: 7/10 (16 January 2015)

Josh (Patrick Wilson) & Renai (Rose Byrne) Lambert, along with their baby and two other children, have moved into a new home, but not before long Renai starts to experience strange incidents. These incidents, for the most part, just get ignored, but things change dramatically when their son, Dalton, doesn't wake up one morning. Seeking any help they can, they turn to Elise Rainier, a spiritual psychic, and learn that their son has the ability to astro-project and is actually trapped by a hideous demon in a realm known as The Further. Desperate to get their son back, Josh has to enter The Further to get Dalton back before it's too late.
Insidious is a really good and a very creepy movie. The first 30 - 40 minutes are a wee bit slow to be honest with not much happening, but even though it's a bit slow it does build the story & tension up nicely, leading into the last hour which is where it gets much better. It doesn't really rely on the "jump-boo" scares either - although there are a couple of good moments of those - but plays more on the psychological scares of just making you feel really uneasy and creeped out....and it works great.
The main demon is done really well, and even though you don't see a whole great deal of it, you definitely see enough for it to freak you out. This works really well because with a lot of these kinds of movies it's what you don't see that can actually scare you. Sometimes the thing that scares you the most is your own imagination and this is what Insidious plays on. It doesn't rely on gore or intense violence either. It's just a really good, creepy psychological horror.
If you enjoy creepy horrors such as The Conjuring, Sinister and The Amityville Horror then you should enjoy Insidious. Put the lights off, turn the sound up and sit back and enjoy.