Insidious

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Insidious

PG-13

2011

1h 43m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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A family looks to prevent evil spirits from trapping their comatose child in a realm called The Further.

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Critics Consensus

Aside from a shaky final act, Insidious is a very scary and very fun haunted house thrill ride.

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Jim Schembri

The Age (Australia)

06/16/2011

3.5/5

Director James Wan here proves himself very adept at building dramatic tension and making you anxious about the things going on in your peripheral vision.

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David Stratton

At the Movies (Australia)

05/12/2011

2/5

If the film was attempting to be more than just a horror movie, it doesn't work on that level either.

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Philip French

Guardian

05/01/2011

A supernatural horror flick by and for horror buffs.

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Grant Watson

Fiction Machine

Dec 15

6/10

I think one of the reasons Insidious has never quite reached the popularity (or noteriety) of the other Wan-Whannel creations is the everything-but-the-kitchen-sink scattershot approach it takes to genre.

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Patrick Cavanaugh

The Wolfman Cometh

Sep 11

2/5

There's a handful of big, effective scares, but the tonal imbalance between the front half and back half don't really align in a satisfying way.

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

07/31/2023

2.5/4

Wan knows how to use his familiar bag of tricks to make us squirm and jump at the right moments, and today that’s rare among this brand of haunted house fright movie.

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Saydi M

@RT16401451 5d

MY FAVORITE HORROR MOVIE! Insidious is not super scary but just creepy and eerie. The story is great. Good jump scares and overall scary plot.

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alessandra P

@RT57521798 Mar 18

Good elementary level horror for beginners I suppose. Production elements just feel cheap and the one infamously good jump scare was ruined for me by the streaming platform using that frame as it’s intro sooo whatever leverage it had there it lost.

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Bella S

@Bellashortcake Mar 5

One of my favourite horror films of all time. I watched it in the cinema when it first came out and was spooked for days. I had to watch it multiple times to stop being afraid of it lol. The jump scares are there, the plot is great and the characters are awesome. I’ve watched this film countless times and I still love it, I can’t get tired of watching it. It’s the best of the sequel too.

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David M.

@Marhino Feb 25

Well worth the watch

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lee w

@LeeTee Feb 16

I just found it uninteresting and things seemed some what disconnected. But the worst part was a woman showing up saying something about the son having astral projection that sounds like something a nut job from coast to coast am would say.I just lost interest and stopped watching.

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Joaquin M

@joaquin_massengill Jan 21

Some things I really did enjoy about this movie were the sound and music, the different scenes, the camera movement, and the way the actors talked and interacted with the environment. The times the music and sound really shine are some of the first scares and scenes where it gets intense and the sound adds that tension. The different scenes and how the family moves houses is really cool. For example, how books fall off the shelf after Rena just puts them up on a shelf or when Josh grabs a pitchfork from the fireplace to defend himself.. The camera movement is also really cool which I feel like adds to the movie making it more immersive. Some of the things I didn't like were the ending and a lot of the jump scares were lacking. Most of the scares aren't "scary" as they're mostly simple and some last a little too long, and are kinda bland. A BIG issue is the ending of the movie. It is super boring and is pretty cliche and pretty typical when it comes to cliffhangers.

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Synopsis

A family looks to prevent evil spirits from trapping their comatose child in a realm called The Further.

Director: James Wan
Producer: Jason Blum, Steven Schneider, Oren Peli
Screenwriter: Leigh Whannell
Distributor: FilmDistrict
Production Co: Alliance, Sony Pictures Television, IM Global
Rating: PG-13 (Frightening Images|Brief Strong Language|Terror|Thematic Material|Violence)
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 1, 2011, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 3, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $54.0M
Runtime: 1h 43m
Sound Mix: SDDS, Dolby Digital

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