October Horror Challenge 2023 #81: "Insidious"

I rememberloving this movie when i first saw it. I actually remember it pretty well because it stuck out to me. It's one of the first movies i saw where a person is haunted instead of a house so you know how you always want to scream at the movie screen and tell the people to just move away from the haunted house before something bad happens? Well thais family tries that when scary things start happening and it doesn't work for them because it's not their house that's haunted, it's the people themselves. Creepy, right? What would you do if your family were being haunted by some unknown entity? That's the presmise of this movie, and I'm excited to check it out again and see if it holds up after all these years (i originally saw it soon after it premiered in 2010).

Like I said before, this movie is about a family that'sbeing haunted, but these aren't your regular ghosts who haunt one particular house. Instead, they target a specific family and try to take their souls. They start with the family's young son, who is lured into a catatonic state by the evil spirits that he is unable to escape from and thus he is in a coma for most of the movie. The family tries desperately to save their child, even going so far as to call in a Paranormal Activity expert, played by Lin Shaye, who happens to be an expert in the supernatural and thinks she can help the family. She has a plan to save the family, but will she be able to do it or will the other world claim their son's soul forever?

This movie doesn'twaste any time gettingto the jump scares. they start right away with the opening credits sequence. The jump scares then continue throughout the rest of the movie. It even got me a few times. To top it all off, i felt really bad for this family. Their lives suddenly turn into a nightmare out of nowhere, and I felt for them as they tried everything to help their son and save their family. Lin Shaye is great in this movie as the Paranormal Activity expert who comes in to help the family with their problems. It's always great seeing her in movies like this. The movie kind of ends on a cliffhanger, and we're left wondering if someone will realize that the evil spirits aren't completely gone. Good setup for part 2 of the movie! This movie is as good as i remembered and I'm excited to see what happensin in part 2.