After seeing the first Insidious, I nearly peed my
pants because as I proceeded to go to my night shift after an 11pm showing of
the movie, I thought I saw the creepy woman in the black gown everywhere I
looked.The first Insidious movie was as
deliciously creepy as a bowl of curry-rice is delicious to my tummy, and I
still hail it as one of the greatest Horror films of all time. If there is
anything this sequel taught me about the prequel, is that it was far more
confusing than I thought it was.I thought I understood the story of Insidious: Chapter 1, but when I finished chapter 2 I thought to
myself, “yeah!Now that makes sense”, or
“say what?! I didn’t eat corn!”The
second statement had nothing to do with the movie, except that I had an
interesting experience related to crohns, due to the dinner that I had partaken
of.I don’t want to give any of the
story away, but let me just say that this film does NOT take place a couple
years after the first film, and instead it picks up right where the cliff
hanger ending of the first movie left off, and to quote the film Heavyweights,
“this pleases me.”My end opinion of
this movie is that it’s twice as good as the first chapter because the
story is more complete and so downright creepy that you feel director James Wan
is giving you a tour of what his vision of Hell is like.
When I went to see Insidious in the theaters it was a 10pm showing that would finish right before my graveyard shift at work, but I wasn't worried because Insidious was supposed to be a PG-13 thrill fest that would have one or two good scares and nothing more. I've never been so wrong in my life! The only other time I've been that horribly wrong is when I commented on a lady's pregnant belly... she wasn't. I can honestly say that Insidious holds the mantle of being the scariest movie of all time for me, and to quote a friend "Sometimes when I walk through the apartment at night, all I can think is, 'Do not think about Insidious. Do not think about Insidious'". That was something I failed at completely, because when I went to work that night I was afraid to look out the windows because it was pitch black and I thought that at any moment I could see the old women in the wedding dress walking around... and then I may or may not have peed my pants. Insidious was the first of Writer/Director James Wan's movies that I've seen and liked, which then inspired me to view his other works, such as: Dead Silence, and Saw (hated the sequels, loved the original). After viewing Insidious and finishing Dead Silence I was thinking to myself "what is it about Wan's movies that makes them so scary to boot?!" because Dead Silence in my opinion was almost just as scary
as Insidious, but it didn't scar me as much because I watched it during the day. Two of the things he does well is that he uses the music and silence perfectly, meaning that he'll have a scene where a person walks around the house and it's so quiet you can hear the mice eating or mating in the walls, then suddenly you'll have the crazy/horrific violin music burst out when a ghost or a demon makes itself known!! James Wan is so good at creating those horrific moments that when they happen and I get scared, I squeal like a pig in the slaughterhouse and my mind is taken back to the basic fears of my youth when I was afraid of what was under the bed or living in the closet. While the music and silence are some of the greatest weapons Wan has in his movie making arsenal (hehe, arsenal), the single greatest (and scariest) characteristic he uses in all his films is his use of frightening facial expressions. Eff that dude!! some of the facial expressions he uses scare me about as much as the dog Shiloh gets scared when getting beaten by his owner. A perfect example of creepy faces is the entire film of Dead Silence with all the Dummies. I don't know who in the world thought dummies were cute and loveable, because to me I thought they were the source of all evil way before Slappy made them famous in Goosebumps, but Dead Silence brought their creepiness to a whole new level. It looks like things are only going to get crazier as well, because James Wan's new movie called The Conjuring is coming out soon, and some of the earlier reviews I've been reading say "it's the scariest supernatural horror film in decades" which sounds like something people say about a lot of movies, but since this is regarding a James Wan film it gives me a lot of promise of something awesome! Below the trailer for The Conjuring is the trailer for Insidious Chapter 2, so I can already see myself viewing both these movies in the theater, blaming my shaking hands on low blood sugar.
