My coursemate and I were looking for ghost movie to watch last month. He came across this 'Insidious' in the website and he read some comments about this movie saying that it was scary. As a horror movies fan, I decided to give this movie a chance. I have no idea what is the meaning of "Insidious" and I don't have any idea what to expect from this movie too. However, this movie turns out not bad.
The story is roughly about a couple, Renai (Rose Byrne) and Josh (Patrick Wilson) experience paranormal events since their son, Dalton went into coma. This is because Dalton has the ability to astral project, just like his father, Josh (this is explained later in the movie). He can wander around the parallel spirit world, which he does this in his sleep and his ability has attracted demon to separate his spirit from his body hoping that he can take over it for his evil purposes.
Renai and Josh trying to find out what happened to their son.
The movie started off like an 80s movie. I even doubted that it was a 2011 production! Haha! The beginning of the movie, I felt that it was like I was watching the movie version of 'Paranormal Activity'....just a little. The movie successfully built up the scary environment in the beginning. It kept me wonder what the story was all about. As for the storyline, I think that something was quite weird because as explained in the movie, Josh was terrorized by an old, terrifying woman spirit when he was a kid. His mother kept all the photos of Josh that had the old woman spirit lurks behind him so that Josh will forget about it. I just don't understand the concept. Do you think by letting the young Josh to forget will prevent the spirit from disturbing his spirit? Or to prevent him from astral projecting? I don't think so....
The highlight of this movie in my opinion is Elise Reiner (Lin Shaye), who deals in paranormal activity. She is a friend of Josh's mother. She is like the kind of people who is old but still strong in doing 'exorcism'. I always feel that she saves the day in the movie (but she failed to save the day in the end). She is like the western version of 罗兰 (Hong Kong artist). LOL! The 2 men working with Elise are kinda the 'comedy' of the movie, which is a good thing, giving the storyline abit of relaxation. The equipments they used are very interesting, especially the 'oxygen mask' thing that they used to contact with the spirit world. It's like watching 'Ghost Adventure'.
Elise...I kept calling her 神婆 and 'cheering' for her throughout the movie.
'Insidious' did have a few scares that made me jump. Especially the one that Renai saw a man wandering outside her bedroom and suddenly appeared in the room, the red-faced demon who suddenly appeared behind Josh, and the ghosts appeared in the camera using different colour slides. It didn't disappoint me in terms of scary effects.
The ending is predictable. I remembered I told my friend about my prediction of the ending and it really turned out that way. Therefore, for ghost movies lovers, this is not a lame one. You should definitely give 'Insidious' a chance although the storyline is abit predictable.
Storyline: 3/5
Scare Effects: 4/5
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湘芝，你就像我们的大姐大！哈哈
你为人真的很诚恳。你带我们真的去买，去吃很多东西。
你告诉我们很多东西，让我们学习很多~
跟你出街玩真的很开心哦！
诗涵，一个斯文，可爱的女生哦！
邦晋，一开始见到其实觉得你还蛮呆的！哈哈！
Sam, 最关照我们的大哥！
我看这几天一定累坏你了。你要安排这个，安排那个。。。晚上还陪我们癫！然后又要做报告。。。
道理多多的大哥令我留下深刻的印象。。。
谢谢你帮我们很多哦！
该轮到我UPM的朋友了：
筱萍，这次的trip 让我们的感情变得更要好！
Mei Ting, “马来西亚之光”！
可以说我每次只在course night 见过你。。。
从来不知道原来你和我可以玩得那么疯狂,become so friend！
大姐，喜欢宠物，嗜好购物，讨厌走路！哈哈.
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之前最深刻印象是你们找我们juniors 拍广告。
想不到原来我们可以谈得那么投机。
还为你“编曲”噢！大家都会唱哦~`~哈哈
Li Ling, 一个想东西很周到的人。
虽然要分离，
但我相信我们一定会一直保持联系，关心彼此。
虽然分割两地，我祝福大家！
谢谢你们带给我那么美好的回忆。。。
我永远都记得这10天~毕生难忘
希望上天给我们机会，再次见面咯！
邦晋和诗涵给的礼物哦！我好喜欢和感动噢！
再见台湾！
