Not A Classic By Any Means, But Still Enjoyable

Rating: 6/10 (16 January 2015)

The Lambert family have moved on from their previous events and are now safe. Or are they? When Renai (Rose Byrne) starts witnessing strange happenings once again, and with Josh (Patrick Wilson) acting more & more strangely each day, she reaches for the help of Specs & Tucker once again - two of Elise's assistants - to try and get rid of the malevolent spirit that has been haunting her family.
Insidious: Chapter 2 is a pretty decent sequel to the fantastic Insidious. Like the first movie, it start's off pretty slow (a seemingly regular theme with James Wan movies), but picks up steadily from about the 45 minute mark and does get better.
While there's a decent amount of tension in the movie I didn't feel as creeped out with this film as I did the first. The first movie also relied - and succeeded - more on visuals and scene setting to make you feel very uneasy to scare you rather than using just the "jump/scare" tactics. This time around, I feel that it's slightly more the other way around, but in saying that it does have it's moments of making you feel slightly uneasy. Just not as good as the first movie.
Insidious: Chapter 2 does actually start to get a wee bit confusing with the amount of cross-over's between the real world and the spirit world as well so you do have to pay close attention to what is going on. If you don't then you'll easily get lost as to what's happening. With that said, however, a good few of these scenes actually tie in with certain events and happenings from the first film i.e. a bang on the house's front door in the first film, you see in this film what caused it. This was actually a really good touch to combine events from the first movie into this one and the tie-in's are done pretty well.
Like I say, it's a decent sequel and while it isn't as good as the first one it's still a good movie to watch.