Insidious
Horrible events begins to unfold after a family realizes that their home is haunted by some evil forces.
5 February 1948, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
4 March 1977, Kerrville, Texas, USA
17 January 1977, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
24 July 1979, Balmain, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
12 February 1979, Australia
October 07, 2015
"Insidious" ultimately works because of Mr. Whannell's script, which manages to be inventive and unpredictable despite its paint-by-numbers formalism.August 26, 2015
Finds a pitch-perfect balance between homage and originality.April 03, 2011
If there's a complaint to be made about Insidious, it's that the film's second half is unable to live up to the impossibly high standards set by the first half.June 02, 2013
Insidious is effectively creepy and is able to provide some great horror elements without the gore.April 01, 2011
There's little new here. And what is new isn't well done.April 11, 2011
Wan and Whannell have, in effect, ripped pages from the "Poltergeist" playbook and stripped the formulas down to old-style gothic scares.April 01, 2011
Nothing slows down a movie down like people sitting around a living room discussing the meaning of "astral projection."April 01, 2011
Insidious isn't scary. It's laughable. And kind of sad.October 04, 2015
A tale of intriguing situations that rise to the surface carefully and cautiously before they explode in a flashy series of stimulating resolutions.February 15, 2013
After a suspenseful and shock-filled first hour, it loses control and veers off into routine supernatural silliness. I hate it when that happens.April 27, 2011
Not so much insidious as inexcusable.June 22, 2013
This is a movie that wants to be several movies at once. It turns out to be none of them.