Insidious (2010)
Rose Byrne wakes up in her goofy pajamas and walks
downstairs to look at pictures. Her son
walks downstairs and joins her because he can’t sleep. The dad goes to work and the mom is stuck at
home to watch after the two sons and the baby girl. Way to make the guy look bad. That night one of the kids, Dalton, is
playing upstairs and the attic door opens on its own. He goes inside and something starts moving in
the dark. Dalton screams and the parents
go up there to find him crying. Who
knows what happened.
It's ok Rose, I like your music.
That night something showed up in his window but I’m not
sure what because I’m watching a movie with sketchy quality. The dad goes to wake the boy up the next day
and he’s in a coma (acoma). The movie
jumps to three months later when Dalton is finally brought home from the
hospital but is still under. The mom is
playing piano and hears static followed by angry voices in the baby
monitor. Medium level of
creepiness. She runs upstairs and finds
no trace of the voices. I knew show
wouldn’t. She checks on the other boy
who tells her that he is scared when the coma son walks around at night
(yikes).
Of course we see the boy later that night and he is
scared. The couple are in their room
when a loud bang is heard downstairs.
The dad checks the front door (which was unlocked) and finds
nothing. He locks the door and sets the
alarm like a responsible father while the mom checks on the baby because she
heard some chatter on the monitor. Rose
walks in the room and sees a face outside the window! Solid scare.
He rushes in and sees nothing.
The alarm goes off and when he checks downstairs the door is also wide
open. The night ends and some solid
suspense has been built.
The next day Rose checks on Dalton and there’s a red
handprint on his sheets. That day also
the dad who is a teacher decides he would rather be away from his wife’s
nagging and stays at the school late.
The dad also dreams in black and white about the son and handprints
against the window. The mom wakes up
screaming and sees something moving outside.
All of a sudden a black shape that looks like Loki charges at her
yelling. I might’ve yelled “Oh”.
They move right away after that and Barbara Hershey (the
dad’s mom) helps her out. Rose is
cleaning the house one day and the record player changes to something
completely different on its own. Through
the window she sees a boy dancing (yikes).
A door closes on its own and a rocking horse does the same. The ghost kid then pops out and scares her
meaning they’re haunted not the house.
She brings a priest over and the dad doesn’t believe anything is going
on. The mom says shut up this is real
and tells them about a dream she had last night. She was in their house but she knew she was
asleep. She went into Dalton’s room and
a creepy black shape is standing in the corner.
She asked it who it was and he said a visitor and he’s here for the
boy. Uh oh. She looks behind the dad (Josh) and a Darth
Maul looking guy is behind. Scare and
then laugh. Big noises come from Dalton’s
room and when they actually get in because the door is locked they find the
room completely trashed.
These are not the ghosts you're looking for.
Some ghost hunter kind of come to investigate the
house. One guy gets a blip on his
machine and sees two very creepy girls.
I made more of a Woh this time.
They call in their boss Elise.
She tells one of the guys to draw what she sees in Dalton’s room. Elise looks very serious while looking at
it. Also she mentions that she has seen
Josh before. Rose looks at the picture
and it sure looks creepy. Elise tells
them that Dalton isn’t in a coma and his body is fine but that is cursed. She thinks that he is an accomplished astral
projector (can do out of body experiences or something) and he has travelled
out too far. He is now lost in “the
further”. “The further” is a dark realm
all around full of the tortured souls of the dead (nice). These things that have been haunting the
family are around because they can smell Dalton’s empty shell and want that
body. Some just want to live again but
some want to do it for bad.
Unfortunately the closest thing to getting in Dalton’s body is an
“insidious” (there it is) demon. The longer
he is lost means the easier it is for him to be possessed. Dad somehow finds this all hard to believe
and puts up a fight against it.
The one on the right isn't bad
Josh hangs out in Dalton’s room and sees some pictures that
he drew. Some are of the demon and one says,
“Last night I watched myself sleep”.
That’s proof enough for him and Elise is brought back. They set up some kind of séance with involves
a camera flashing and her wearing a gas mask with an elephant trunk. They start and I bet something good is going
to pop up in the flash. Elise is talking
into the mask and talking to Dalton. He
says it’s dark and he can’t see. Then he
whispers, “If they hear me they’ll hurt me” specifically ‘the one with fire on
his face”. Dalton then tells the ghost
investigators to stop talking because they heard you. Then he keeps repeating, ”Help me”. Elise starts freaking out and the voice now says,
“you bitch! I know who you are. I will rip your innards out” Suddenly Dalton
is standing next to them and knocks everyone back with some kind of force
powers. The ghosts bust in and the Loki
looking one grabs lose and licks her.
Jealous.
The séance ends with the only evidence caught on tape by the
ghost hunters being a clip with Darth Maul standing behind Dalton. Barbara shows up and breaks the news that
Josh was the original astral projector and this same thing happened to him back
in the day when he was little. The check
out pictures of when he was a child and this creepy old lady keeps appearing in
his pictures. He doesn’t remember any of
it because they repressed it but in the back of his mind he’s always been
afraid of having his pictures taken.
Elise then drops another nugget on him by saying him going into The
Further and getting Dalton is the only way to bring him back. Josh is put under hypnosis and we are off
into the further.
THIS IS WHERE THE ENDING BEGINS
It’s basically just this world with a dark blue/green tinted
lens. He walks into his old house and
it’s just fully of spirits. Downstairs
he hears and odd whistling and sees a family from the 40’s or something and the
mom looks pretty scary. He walks back
into the room and the daughter of the family shot the rest of them. He looks away and they’re all standing in
front of him (whoaaa). Loki shows up in
the attic and there’s a fight, which Josh wins, with an ultimate punch. In all of Dalton’s drawings there is a red
door. Josh finds it and walks
through. There’s a red tinge now and a
creepy hallway. Josh finds Dalton who is
chained up and the Darth Vader sharpening his claws. The fight with Darth Maul (who has hooves)
causes the whole house to shake. Father
and son bust out of the red room and start making their way out of the
house.
Your mom's a dude.
Now all that is left is for them to find their way back to
this world. The only problem is the dead
are just standing all around them. The
house goes black and silent which makes the ghost hunters check on a room and
an arm grabs out at one of them through a dresser. The dead are starting to cross into our world
and they are all over the house. The two
make it in and get separated. Darth Maul
pops out and scares Dalton out of nowhere and Josh sees the old lady in a
window. He does the Home Alone I’m not
afraid anymore and tells her to go away.
He and Dalton both make it back I guess and wake up. Happy music starts playing. Everything seems to be back to normal but
Elise sees something weird in Josh when he hands her something. She quickly snaps a picture of him and he
freaks out, choking her to death. Josh
is gone and Rose picks up the camera to see a picture of Josh as the old
lady.
Dun Dun Dun
Favorite Scene: Nothing stands out. The séance I guess.
Memorable Lines: It's not the house that is haunted.
It's your son.
Rating: 6.4 Dots. Better than Ju-on at least. It’s hard to judge this movie. The first half there was some real suspense
built. Then Darth Maul showed up and you
stopped being scarred. The ending could’ve
been better if it was longer. That is
what I think.
Alternate Ending: I wouldn’t change
it. Liked the outcome.
What I would do if I was the main
character: Two kids is enough right? Do I
really need all three? Is going into The
Further worth it? I would have some
things to consider.
What happens in the sequel: I don’t
know but I’ll see it soon.
I'll see you soon
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