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For me, Insidious was an odd, schizophrenic movie experience... Insidious starts off as a brilliant haunted house tale, which actually had me cowering in my seat and gripping Mark's hand (can't remember the last time I went to the theater and was that scared!! Descent, perhaps?)... BUT about two-thirds through the movie, it turns into this bizarre tribute to various foreign sub-genres: We definitely saw some Giallo (intrusive music), Japanese Onryō (walking doll-like dead), and even a tribute to the 60s classic Carniv...al of Souls... It was very very strange to go from a subtle slow-burner to a weird ghoul extravaganza which, ultimately, was just a bit silly.
Unfortunately I have to say that this was really just 2/3's good movie, 1/3 silliness. Not really sure what James Wan (Saw, Dead Silence) was thinking...
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