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Insidious
Directed by
James Wan
PG-13
2011
1h 42m
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6.8
66%
62%
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A family discovers that dark spirits have invaded their home after their son inexplicably falls into an endless sleep. When they reach out to a professional for help, they learn things are a lot more personal than they thought.
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Cast of Insidious
Patrick Wilson
Josh Lambert
Rose Byrne
Renai Lambert
Lin Shaye
Elise Rainier
Ty Simpkins
Dalton Lambert
Barbara Hershey
Lorraine Lambert
Leigh Whannell
Specs / Writer
Angus Sampson
Tucker
Andrew Astor
Foster Lambert
Corbett Tuck
Nurse Adele / Doll Girl #2
Heather Tocquigny
Nurse Kelly
Ruben Pla
Dr. Sercarz
John Henry Binder
Father Martin
Joseph Bishara
Lipstick-Face Demon / Original Music Composer
Philip Friedman
Old Woman
J. LaRose
Long Haired Fiend
Kelly Devoto
Doll Girl #1
James Wan
Director / Editor
Oren Peli
Producer
Steven Schneider
Producer
Brian Kavanaugh-Jones
Executive Producer
Insidious Ratings & Reviews
The New Yorker
Bruce Diones
Wan and Whannell have, in effect, ripped pages from the "Poltergeist" playbook and stripped the formulas down to old-style gothic scares.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
But at a certain point the bottom falls out of this production, the filmmakers letting things get increasingly silly and ludicrous unleashing a final climactic flourish of lunacy and tedium that had me scratching my head as to what exactly just happened.
Detroit News
Tom Long
Insidious isn't scary. It's laughable. And kind of sad.
HollywoodChicago.com
Brian Tallerico
At its foundation, it's a movie I like. It's what's built on that foundation that's troubling.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Don't even get me started on the sublime asininity of the cloven-hoofed, fire-faced demon thingee that, for no reason I can fathom, resembles, almost exactly, Darth Maul. Seriously. Don't.
Wall Street Journal
John Anderson
"Insidious" establishes that these folks can make a film that operates on an entirely different level, sans gore, or obvious gimmicks. And make flesh crawl.
New York Times
Mike Hale
The strongest analogue for the second half of "Insidious" is one that the filmmakers probably weren't trying for: it feels like a less poetic version of an M. Night Shyamalan fairy tale.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
It's too much "Saw" and not enough "Paranormal."
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
From the opening credits, in which the title appears in blood-red letters to the accompaniment of blaring, dissonant music, the movie tries to get under your skin and inside your mind. Sometimes it does.
USA Today
Claudia Puig
There's not much that's insidious, or subtle, here. A prolonged scene involving an unnerving high-pitched burglar alarm does get under our skin. But it's far more annoying than frightening.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Here's a better-than-average spook house movie, mostly because Insidious decides it can haunt an audience without spraying it with blood.
Boston Globe
Ethan Gilsdorf
The final shocker succeeds in shocking, and does so sans gore. But first we have to wade through a red door and a red hallway, pleas to "follow my voice,'' and an infinity of fog about as scary as dry ice vapor spilling onto a dance floor.
AV Club
Scott Tobias
All calculation aside, scary is still scary, and Insidious makes up in old-fashioned tension what it sometimes lacks in originality.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Not terrifically good, but moviegoers will get what they're expecting.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
If your idea of a fun night out is to be manipulated by freaky sound effects, jumpy edits, and point-of-view shots of ceiling fans whooshing menacingly, Insidious is the film for you.
Chicago Reader
Ben Sachs
Aesthetically, Insidious operates at the level of a decent high school video project.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Director James Wan and screenwriter Leigh Whannell admire all sorts of fright, from the blatant to the insidiously subtle. This one lies at an effective halfway point between those extremes.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
It turns out to be a moderately effective suburban-family creep show, majorly in debt to "Poltergeist" and "The Exorcist" and capturing at least a little of their spirit.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Insidious is a haunted-house movie that has some of the most shivery and indelible images I've seen in any horror film in decades.
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