Not as Scary But Good Story

Rating: Null/10 (13 September 2013)

I saw "Insidious: Chapter 2", starring Patrick Wilson-The Conjuring, Watchmen; Rose Byrne-X-Men First Class, Damages-t.v.; Barbara Hershey-Black Swan, Falling Down and Steve Coulter-The Conjuring, The Hunger Games.
This is a sequel to the 2010 horror movie directed by James Wan-he directs this one, too, plus he also directed The Conjuring and the original Saw. In the first Insidious, Patrick and his wife Rose had problems with a demon using their son to enter our world. This one continues where it left off and the demon decides to use someone else as his vehicle to Earth. Barbara returns as Patrick's mother and Steve is their new guide to the spirit world and the burgeoning new field of astral projection; if you remember in the ending of the last one, the lady psychic died trying to save Patrick's son, using astral projection. This movie does go into the past history of the demon and what actually motivates him. I liked how they would show scenes from different perspectives; for instance, later in the movie, an earlier scene will be shown with different details highlighted, showing you what is really going on. I also liked how they relied more on actual actors in make-up, instead of CGI effects. If you liked the first one, you will probably like this one. Although there are some good scares, it's not as scary as the first one but the story more than makes up for it. It's rated "PG-13" for violence and sequences of terror and has a running time of 1 hour & 45 minutes. I would probably buy this on DVD.