Insidious (2010)

            It started off like any other horror movie: a new house where the wife starts seeing things and the douchy husband doesn’t believe her. Creepy children and possessions and ghost hunters follow. Don’t get me wrong, I like a good scary movie, but that doesn’t mean it was a quality movie. The editing was weird, the acting was pretty bad, and the storyline was far from original. It followed the same equation that all horror movies follow (which are all the things I’ve mentioned above) plus something other plot point that prevents the movie from being a carbon copy of all the others.

            In this case, it’s the fact that the son, Dalton, can travel to a different dimension in his sleep, but he has gotten lost and he has left his physical body behind in a comatose state. Then (*Spoiler) his father, who has the same ability, has to go into the other realm and save his son. That concept would be extremely interesting, if it wasn’t wrapped around a clichéd horror story. I’ve noticed that James Wan’s style is to create a somewhat entertaining movie for the first two acts, and then blow it completely out of proportion during the third act. He did the same thing in The Conjuring. It just gets very silly and random during the climax and then I just lose respect for the movie.

            I was very entertained while I watched it, but the ending was too much. I’ll still probably see what happens in Insidious: Chapter Two, however, even though I will probably have the same opinion about the original.

IMDb rating: 6/10