Insidious Movie Review

Cast

• Patrick Wilson as Josh Lambert
• Josh Feldman as young Josh
• Rose Byrne as Renai Lambert
• Lin Shaye as Elise Rainier
• Ty Simpkins as Dalton Lambert
• Barbara Hershey as Lorraine Lambert
• Leigh Whannell as Specs
• Angus Sampson as Tucker
• Andrew Astor as Foster Lambert
• Heather Tocquigny as Nurse Kelly
• Corbett Tuck as Nurse Adele
• Ruben Pla as Dr. Sercarz
• John Henry Binder as Father Martin
• Christopher Marr Besina as Ghost
• Marfren Cubar as Tree
• Joseph Bishara as Lipstick-Face Demon
• J. LaRose as Long Haired Fiend
• Philip Friedman as The Old Woman
• Kelly Devoto and Corbett Tuck as Doll Girls
• Ben Woolf as Dancing Boy
• Lary Crews as the Whistling Ghost Dad
• Jose Prendes as Top Hat Guy
• Caslin Rose as the Ghoul / Contortionist

Review

Despite being filled with classic horror movie gimmicks, James Wan's Insidious is still getting far more attention than other haunted house movies 13 years after its release. This is no doubt due to the innovation and quality that the film exhibits on every level.

Supernatural begins with Renai and Josh (Rose Byrne and Patrick Wilson) moving to a new place with their children in hopes of a better life.

Hopes are shattered when strange and inexplicable things start happening daily in the house, resulting in their son Dalton (Ty Simpkins) falling into a coma for no apparent reason.

The grieving parents turn to a psychic, played by Lin Shaye, who reveals that the house is not, in fact, haunted. He's his son.

So screenwriter Leigh Whannell turns a film of demonic possession into a haunted house.

It gives another layer to the story when we learn that Dalton is a genius astral projector who was separated from his body and lost in a realm filled with the tortured souls of the dead.

Modern horror hasn't explored the subject of out-of-body experiences much. This makes the film innovative at its core. Unlike most horror movies, Insidious Risks shows us the underworld where all creepy entities live.

James Wan performs this difficult task admirably. This other dimension looks exactly like a replica of our world, except it's dimly lit and eerily empty.

The depiction of the lower realms is refined and subtle, yet chilling.

This suggests that the extraterrestrial world could be very close to ours.

Despite being filled with classic horror movie gimmicks, James Wan's Insidious is still getting far more attention than other haunted house movies 8 years after its release. This is no doubt due to the innovation and quality that the film exhibits on every level.

Supernatural begins with Renai and Josh (Rose Byrne and Patrick Wilson) moving to a new place with their children in hopes of a better life.

Hopes are shattered when strange and inexplicable things start happening daily in the house, resulting in their son Dalton (Ty Simpkins) falling into a coma for no apparent reason.

The grieving parents turn to a psychic, played by Lin Shaye, who reveals that the house is not, in fact, haunted. He's his son.

So screenwriter Leigh Whannell turns a film of demonic possession into a haunted house.

It gives another layer to the story when we learn that Dalton is a genius astral projector who was separated from his body and lost in a realm filled with the tortured souls of the dead.

Modern horror hasn't explored the subject of out-of-body experiences much. This makes the film innovative at its core. Unlike most horror movies, Insidious Risks shows us the underworld where all creepy entities live.

James Wan performs this difficult task admirably. This other dimension looks exactly like a replica of our world, except it's dimly lit and eerily empty.

The depiction of the lower realms is refined and subtle, yet chilling.

This suggests that the extraterrestrial world could be very close to ours.