Insidious chapter1 (2010)
Cast:
Patrick Wilson, Rose
Byrne, Barbara Hershey and Joseph Bishara.
Director: James Wan
Synopsis:
At the beginning of the film, a shadowy old woman is seen
inside a house while the inhabitants sleep. Renai and Josh Lambert have
recently moved into a new home with their three children. One morning, Renai
looks through a family photo album with her son, Dalton, who asks why there are
no pictures of Josh when he was a child. Renai reasons that he has always been
camera shy and disliked taking photos of himself. One evening, Dalton sees the
attic door open and goes to investigate after hearing sounds upstairs. As he
enters inside, he tries to climb a ladder to turn on the light, but falls when
the ladder cracks. As he falls to the floor, he seems to stare in horror at the
darkness as if looking at something terrifying. Shaken, he is put to bed by
Renai and Josh and told not to play in the attic because it is off-limits. The
next day, Dalton does not awaken from his sleep. Renai and Josh rush him to the
hospital, where the doctors say he is in an inexplicable coma.
Review:
Within the first few seconds of the film, it is evident
that the atmosphere is captured perfect with an in your face look around a dark
house. Right after these few seconds comes a horrible title screen that will
make my ears bleed if heard in the right theatre. Insidious is inscribed into a
brown background with blood red font and such a scream that I wonder what the
director was thinking.
Music aside, the real reason everyone is here is for the
horror that comes really strong. Near the halfway point though, it does get
annoying with all the jump scares and instead of nervous laughter, I am more
inclined to laugh it not scaring me. While the horror element is fairly strong
within the film, so is the drama, as it with lends a much needed gravity to
everything so I care about the characters and not root for them to be killed
off like most horror archetypes these days (cough, Skyline, cough). Patrick Wilson
and Rose Byrne do a fantastic job.
Overall though, the first Insidious is great and definitely
deserves a watch if you're one of the few that haven't seen it.
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