Review of Insidious

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.