It's hard to believe that our little movie Insidious now has four sequels. I wonder if the filmmakers envisioned this kind of success way back when they made the first movie? It's hard for me to believe too, and yet here we are. The fourth movie in the series was actually my favorite of them all, so i couldn't wait to see this sequel after watching the other four movies. Lucky for me, Amazon was doing a sale on the fifth Insidious movie this week for Halloween, so I got to rent it for $2.99 instead of the usual price of $5.99 (yay good deals) so after bingeing the first four movies, whoch I own, i get to see the fifth one too. It looks like the family from the first and second movie are returning for this movie too, so we get to see what's going on with them now. I can't wait.
So in this sequel, we're jumping ahead a few years since thirteen years have passed since the first movie. The little boy, Dalton, is all grown up and going away to college. When the film opens, we're at the funeral of Josh's mother, and we discover that Dalton has become a sullen teenager who hates his father. Not that i can blame him totally, since i hated his dad in the second movie too, but Dalton is so mean to his dad atthe beginning of this movie that i actually felt bad for Josh. Unfortunately for Dalton, the family tradition of seeing ghosts has followed him throughout his life until now. We discover that he doesn't remember the ghostly events that happened to him as a kid. His whole memory of the events of the first and second movie is gone and he thinks he had viral memingitis when he was a kid and that's why he wasbin a coma for so long. You'd think that after how badly it affected Josh when they tried to take away his memory of the ghostly events that they wouldn't go ahead and do the same thing with Dalton, but I guess our characters aren't that smart. Now when the ghostly history starts repeating itself, Dalton has no idea what to do. Will the sins of the father be passed onto the son? Will Josh figure out what's going on in time to save his family once again, or will he lose the battle with the evil spirits who just can't seem to leave his family alone?
There’s a scene in an MRI machine that really freaks me out because I've had an hour and 45 minute MRI once and I've never fully recovered from that experience. Stupid movie, bringing up past trauma for me. I really like the character Chris, Dalto's roommates in this movie. She's the supportive friend he needs when ghostly stuff starta going down. It's funny how things change because as much as i wanted to punch Josh in 0art 2, i wanted to punch Annie in this one. I don't care if Josh agreed to it, after you saw how badly it screwed up his life when his mom made him forget everything when he was a kid, you shouldn't have agreed to do it again not only to Josh but to your own kid as well. Seriously. Bad idea all around. At least they do the right thing this time around and let everyone remember what happened without trying to erase their memories. Too little too late in my opinion, but at least they learned their lesson. This was a good sequel. Not as good as part 4, but still way better than any fifth movie in a series has any right to be.
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