A Very Well Made Sequel

Rating: 8/10 (22 September 2013)

I know I probably should have reviewed the first Insidious first, but I saw this one more recently and was compelled to review this one first. This movie was a great sequel to the first Insidious horror, and was a good use of my time. The 106 minutes flew by while I was watching. The events in the first film that weren't really explained that much were all explained in depth in the second installation. The 2nd chapter was also very scary, and full of jump scenes, and they were well made, don't get me wrong, but they were less surprising and less plentiful than the first. However, this movie was an above averagely scary PG-13, meaning most movies that are this scary are almost always rated R, which is another reason you could go see it. Also, this is a movie that you could go see with the kids, if they don't get scared that easily, because there is no nudity, which I like, and there are also no usages of F***, which I also like. However, if you go see it with kids under 12 or around there, they will probably have nightmares for the rest of the week. I was scared throughout the whole movie, because I knew something was coming but I never knew what. I saw it with my Dad, and he doesn't get scared that easily, and he was scared a lot of times too, so you know by that that the movie's scary. Aside from the scariness, the acting was as good, if not better than the first. It has the "Carrie" relationship, I call it. This means that if Josh Lambert was Carrie, and the new remake of Carrie is coming out this year or next, and Chloe Grace-Moretz is playing the new Carrie, previously played by Sissy Spacek, and since Patrick Wilson plays Josh, If they make a remake of Insidious, Chloe Grace-Moretz might not pull off the role of Carrie, but I don't know because as of right now the movie hasn't come out yet but I want to see it, the person who plays Josh will probably not pull off the role. Long sentence to make a short point, but I couldn't shorten it. He did a memorable and irreplaceable job as Josh Lambert. Also, the movie was very similar to the first, production wise and film wise. There were the same actors, the same producer, the same writer, the same composer, and some of the same entities, which made it even more realistic. The extra characters that were added in just made the film better. But never mind that, I'll talk about James Wan's interesting directing style. Instead of the fulfilling sense of dread, he uses the instant scene change style, which you don't see that much nowadays. In today's horrors, thew directors like to do a slo mo intro to the ghost most of the time, but James Wan holds nothing back. If he wants you to be scared, you'll be scared, for almost sure. This was how it was in the original film, which was also scary. By the way, the writers of the movie know where to put in specks of comedy. I give this movie and the first movie an 8 because it was very scary and realistic. GO SEE IT!