Insidious Reviews

Elements of this movie were pretty awesome as they seemed to be a throwback to older horror movies from the 60's and 70's (the opening title credits in big red lettering), but then on the other hand, half the movie is just flat, dull and predictable. Half bad, half good, it's still a decent horror flick, but only for one or two times around, no more. I think the terrible bits would start to really wear on the viewer and end up just being too annoying to sit through it. And the very end of the movie was just way too predictable. As an idea, it was pretty good, but where "Saw" was fresh, new and very smart, "Insidious" just falls far, far short of the same standards.

FINALLY other than "found footage" horror movies, a modern horror movie scared me. I am not a fan of the new horror because well they try to hard to scare you and what is in is Insidious can be found in all these modern horror films, but its done very very well in this. The images are freaky, I didn't jump but I gasp and my eyes widened at some of the images. The central story had a really cool concept to it that I really enjoyed. I thought the acting wasn't good at all. No one was strong at all, and it was just bad. I would recast with Guy Pearce and Rachel Weisz, I don't know why but it just seemed like they would fit in the movie. But don't pass this up its a good horror film, with a good concept if you can get through the bad acting than you will enjoy this one.