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Insidious

post #1 of 4
9/13/11 at 9:59am
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Jesus this movie scared the crap out of me. It was amazing that with no real blood or gore and a PG-13 horror movie could have me so wrapped up in it that I got goosebumps numerous times.

 

Sure, there were a few issues, but everyone involved was great, believable and this was one where I had no idea what to expect when going in. I honestly thought the kid was possessed and would end up killing his family or something. Comparisons to Poltergeist aside, I liked how that really threw me. Very atmospheric and creepy. Loved the bombastic music at the beginning and end.

 

To top off the evening - and this isn't related to the movie - but we have a lamp in our living room that you turn a knob to turn it off and to get different levels of brightness. I know I turned if off when I went to bed, but I woke up at 5am and noticed through the bedroom door that the living room light was on. I'm sure I simply over-turned the knob ever so slightly and gravity forced it to continue to turn over the next few hours and clicked it on. But seriously. Never happened before. Thank god my wife didn't watch it. She would have freaked the fuck out.

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post #2 of 4
9/15/11 at 12:17am

Liked this until that last couple of minutes. It just didn't work for me. I appreciated the approach of the film a lot though.

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post #3 of 4
9/15/11 at 12:59am
I think this managed to be very scary, at least compared to the vast majority of today's horror cinema. There were moments in this film that were deeply unsettling, and upset me even to think about months later! The ending was a little silly, but when this movie was in top form during the first half, it excelled at scaring the bejesus outta me. I cite the cinematic technique of using jump scares... But not jump cuts. By suddenly confronting the audience with something horrible, and then refusing to cut away even for a better close up reaction shot of someone cowering in fear, it trapped the audience there in that moment with our characters, there in the house with an impossible, ghastly horror

Specificly I'd point to the scene where Rose Byrne turns around and the baby's room is awash in red light and there is some creepy monster standing there. In most horror films, this is where the camera cuts to her, then back to the room to reveal the apparition has disappeared. Not in INSIDIOUS: here a steady cam shot runs with her out to the hall, to film her crying her eyes out. The whole time I'm wondering if that thing is still in the room, if it will be there when she works up the courage to peek around the corner

Ugh.. Masterfully effective film making

I just wish that the script hadn't ultimately been so undercooked

PS The colored film viewer/ghost hunter sequence also had that horrible sense of reality to it, when he looks back through the viewfinder a second time and those figures are still there staring at him
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post #4 of 4
9/21/11 at 4:55am

I was really scared for face the horror of this flick and whole night could't sleep well.

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