Insidious - Far From Good.

(The couple in Insidious)
(2011) ★★☆☆☆

A couple with 3 kids of their own live in a seemingly haunted house. The wife starts to see and hear things after her oldest son falls off a ladder and into a coma. She gets more and more paranoid and hysterical as her husband doesn’t really buy her story. They after all move to a new place thinking they’ll be alright, but unfortunately, for a particular reason, those spirits have decided not to leave them alone…

There’re scary moments in the first half of the film, but they work much like a shock rather than instilling a fear. The atmosphere is well built up but it all seems to go to waste as we move on to the second half and are informed the reason why the spirits are so insistent to stay with the family, especially their son in a coma. As we start getting the whole picture, we no longer feel involved and frightened of the things we see even though the director tries to stir up claustrophobia by taking us back to that typical haunted house again, this time in a pretty bizarre way.

Like I always believe, the best horror should be the one able to scare the hell out of you by making you feel like something’s going to come and get you but you have no idea what it is, not even when the film ends. But honestly, ‘Insidious’ is far from that quality.