Insidious

Insidious
PG-13
Walker's Rating 3.5/5
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Many of todays horror films mainly get their scares through cheep "pop up scares" and excessive blood and gore. Insidious gives a fresh face to the more modern horror genre with little if no blood and a very tense scary feeling. This seems to be a new thing for director James Wan of the Saw and Paranormal Activity fame. The story revolves around a family whose life's start to change after they move into a new house. At first this seems like your basic haunted house film. The story however takes a turn when the the son of Josh and Renai Wilson (Played by Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne respectively) goes into what appears to be a coma. The sons coma coincides with a increase in paranormal events including doors opening and closing by themselves, "ghost children" running through the Wilson's home and appearances of a darth maul like demon. The overall eeriness of the film is greatly helped by the score composed by Joseph Bishara which is full of calm and erie high pitch almost psycho like violin score. The film even uses Tim Tim's Tiptoe Through The Tulip's well enough to ensure that no one will ever feel safe when the song is played. Another strong point for this film was the cinematography which can be best described as said by a friend of mine. "Like a british film." With many Vertigo like shots and tracking shots in which small things that can be very easily missed but are quite creepy appear for a brief second. The film as a whole falls apart in it's final 20 minutes. As we enter a dark place known only as "The Further" things go from creepy to almost silly as many of  the things that made the film scary in the first place. Luckily the films pulls it together for a good final 10 seconds. When watching the movie keep an eye for for a picture of Jigsaw the creepy clown guy from the saw films.