Insidious: Chapter 2

Rating: 7/10 (23 June 2015)

As horror films go, this one isn't at all bad, although there is the usual confusion with ghost/dream sequences. A psychic is murdered while trying to exorcise a ghost, apparently by someone or something from the other side. A boy is possessed, or has been possessed, or is he still now that he is a grown man with a family of his own? Part of the confusion is that this is a sequel. It turns out that the culprit is a serial killer who committed suicide by jumping out of a hospital window, and in turn he was under the influence of his mother who insisted on dressing him up as a girl.
There are a couple of parapsychologists/ghost hunters involved, and what appears to be an attempt to inject a bit of comedy into the film, which fails dismally. Its real redeeming feature though is that there are some genuinely scary moments, not in the spook department necessarily, but like that time in "Jaws" when the shark turns up unexpectedly.