#insidious 2010

[toothdoll]

[producejoe]

❝ I make all this equipment myself, you know. ❞

[phoenix]

What are your thoughts on Insidious (2010)? If you've seen it?

Okay it's been forEVer since I saw it, probably since 2010, so be nice if I get some of the details wrong. ;)

I liked a lot of it! The characters are fun, especially the ghost hunters, and I really liked mixing up the "haunted house" trope so it's the family that's haunted, and it has some really nice atmosphere.

I don't think it quite stuck the landing though, and the iconic shot of the demon behind Patrick Wilson always makes me laugh more than it scares me. Not a GREAT movie, but a really good one. I really should go back and watch the rest of the franchise.

[hannahwatcheshorror]

INSIDIOUS (2010) + REWATCH

An underwhelming horror movie that relies heavily on jumpscares and musical stings for its frights. What can I say? It’s just not for me. Sure it has a lot of good elements to it, spooky characters, good pacing, great actors, but this film just falls short of my standards. Above all else, it was boring. Nothing really memorable happened and that is why I think I have to stick with my guns and keep this at a 2 star rating.

⭐⭐

Hot dad from The Conjuring series is forced to go into the upside down when his loser kid goes into "not a coma." The reactions to the horrors are believable but the horrors themselves flip from demons to creepy old lady's to an old time-y horror picture show… For a movie with so much build up I was expecting something much more exceptional. The pace of the movie was pretty good, starting with spooks pretty much off the bat but… I'll watch the others in the series I just can't say that I'm excited to.

REWATCH REVIEW

A child of the house falls into what is certainly not a coma but is a very long sleep and the mom is very quick to blame ghosts which, I mean, good for her, but also, damn, she’s crazy. A psychic comes in to inform us that this little kid is a terrific astral projector so much so that he went into a different dimension of sorts (bring back Gabbie while you are there, why don’t ya) and left his body to be possessed by any number of demons… Seems wack. Because they buried the lead that the dad also is “a traveler” so his mom had to go through this same demon spiel with him when he was a kid. They do some automatic writing which I think is pretty neat but that makes more ghosties come. Finally it is decided that the dad has to astral project to save the boy (who didn’t see that coming?).

The astral projection is BORING. It is a black empty space, the two houses, or a dungeon. That is it. Nothing fresh, new or exciting. Nothing “Astral.” Anyway, hot dad gets his kid and makes it out, or does he? I don’t know that I believe a child is strong enough to fend off a demon that is basically Satan but a grown man isn’t able to beat an old woman. I get she was his nemesis or whatever but wow did they just throw that in at the very end. You would think Elise would notice sooner given that she is a psychic… She didn’t actually use her “abilities” she just was there and saw things everyone else who was a non-psychic could see. I guess she did talk to the son for them but that just invited more chaos into the home. Whatever, all's well that ends up setting us up for the sequel, I guess.

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[idiosamcrasy]

Halloween Film Frightstival Day 23: Insidious (2010)

Day whatever of watching movies I’ve avoided because I’m a scaredy cat but now I wanna be scared

What is it with horror movies and beautiful houses? I wanna live in a beautiful house, preferably not haunted though

Aw the mom and the kid have matching jammies that’s cute

Why? Is there a drawing of Jigsaw? On the chalkboard in the classroom? I know it’s just a cute little reference for the crew and viewers, but it’d be funny if the whole haunting was an elaborate psychological trap from Jigsaw

God kids are so fucking creepy wouldn’t you just drop kick the ghost in the fucking face

I shouldn’t have watched this while home alone I’m such a little scaredy cat and even when I can see the jumpscares coming they still scare me

Okay yeah that one’s scary, but why does it just end like that? Well I mean it’s to get you to watch the sequel, but it’s unsatisfying when they do all that work to stop the demons and then you think they did but they actually just didn’t? Anyway the whole thing felt very reminiscent of Poltergeist with a kid trapped in another place and having to be rescued and a medium and the ghosts ending up in the real world, it was just scarier than Poltergeist

My biggest problem watching scary movies is that I get over being scared after it’s over but then later when it’s all dark out I start thinking about how it’s awesome that I wasn’t scared and then I think about the scary stuff and get scared again, so I’ll probably be scared later but whatever

Anyway, it was good I guess, certainly not my favorite but that’s because I’m still scared

[spextkrr]

[ SPECS FISHER HEADCANONS ]°•.☆

yippee! he's my silly little guy :3 tw's: none!

☆ Trans (FTM)

- Actually considered using Specs as his name for a hot second but then thought it was "too weird," so he went with Steven after Stephen King, he just spells it differently! - Binds on every case/mission, no matter how much the others pester him about not doing so. -Debating top surgery. It's expensive, and his chest dysphoria ain't that bad.

☆ Has OCD

- More O than C. - Intrusive thoughts are an unfortunately big part of it. He loves horror, but unfortunately it does trigger some of those thoughts, so he doesn't watch it as much as he'd like to. - Only true compulsion he's ever had is always needing to know the time. Like, always. He'll straight up panic if he doesn't have a relative idea of how much time has passed. - ^ Pretty embarrassed about it.

☆ Favorites

- Favorite color is orange - Favorite movie is The Evil Dead (the first one) -Overall really loves 70s and 80s horror. Can't stand modern horror -Loves David Bowie and Coldplay - Likes coffee but it really messes with his nerves, so he treats himself with it on good days/days where he's not doing much in case it does mess him up - No favorite meal! This man will eat anything and everything

☆ Misc.

- Always wearing socks, another comfort thing. - Love language is physical affection, but at the same time, it can kinda overwhelming him + he's only comfortable hugging like. 4 people so go figure lmfao (guess who u think they r :]) - Has a BAD case of the yappers. - Can't sleep unless it's completely quiet, and I mean completely - Got his nickname from Tucker, who could only remember him by the dorky glasses he wore in college, always referring to him as "The one with the spectacles" and it just kinda stuck - Wanted to write paranormal mystery novels as a kid, but he's fine with living through them now -Surprisingly knowledgeable on archeology -Master of HTML and CSS

[cary-elwes]

Specs: "Dr. Gordon, that ghost... who was he?"

Lawrence: "His name was Adam. Someone I loved."

Specs: "Adam..."

Lawrence: "You look just like him, you know."

Specs: "Wait, what?"

Lawrence: It's uncanny...

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[sleepiest-idiot]

It's an obvious detail but I love how in Insidious the Dead are damned to wander the Further in Darkness and only the living have a light to navigate through.

Like it's initially build to guide the living safely out again. And how their light, their soul, takes on the form of a lantern automatically? I wonder if that could differ from person to person. Like for some people it's a lantern, a flashlight or a candle.