Insidious: Chapter 2

Name: Insidious: Chapter 2

Genre: Horror/Thriller

Cast: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Barbara Hershey, James Wan (Director)

Synopsis: In the late 1980’s when Josh was still a kid, he is having the ability of astral projection where Josh as a kid having trouble with the old lady in black dress. Elise at that time with the help of another person named Carl helping her in that case. Young Josh told Elise about the whereabouts of the problem haunting him. Elsie with young Josh’s signal reached their but having some infection of her hand suddenly went out of there and told that problem is big enough. Elsie told Lorraine that the best thing for him to make him forget his astral projection abilities. Now in the present time, Police detective is questioning Renai (Rose Byrne) that is Josh’s wife about the death of Elise in her house. Josh was freed on the bail from Police custody. Soon after, Renai starts hearing some strange events again in the house which they were living now. As when Renai was in her bed piano starts playing itself on its own, footsteps voices but no one was there. Renai suspects Josh for all the mysterious happenings but Josh told her that he has stay calm and everything will be okay. Lorraine also saw a mysterious white woman in their home and tries to follow her but suddenly seeing that woman she got very scared. Josh suddenly meet her and told her that there is nothing to be afraid and he doesn’t want his family to again get upset. Renai too saw the same mysterious woman which Lorraine saw and tries to follow her but sooner that woman slapped her so hard that it knocked Renai unconscious.

Desperate for help Lorraine went to Elsie colleagues Specs and Tucker and asks them to help her that what is going wrong. As Elsie is gone now so Lorraine called Carl for help them in this case. He attempts to contact Elsie through dices. Elsie through told them that it’s the mother who killed and she wanted to kill them all as well. Also she told “Angel” when asked where to find her. Which Lorraine remembered that it’s the hospital where she used to work at before? When they went there they find the files of patient Parker Crane, a patient in ICU which committed jumping off the roof many years ago. All four of them then go to Parker Crane’s home hoping to find some clue’s over there. In Parker’s home, they found some clue’s as well as some memories of him being as a girl. The found the room where people were murdered and were kept as such also the black gown and veil and a statue as well as some clipping of the newspaper written on the murders of the people. Carl through his ability came to know that it was Parker Crane in the black gown of the lady which committed the murders and his mother forced him to do so. All of them somehow escaped from there.

Renai when was about to enter in the her own home was stopped by Lorraine and told her to go away from here as Josh was still inside the home and her kids her being left at her friend. Lorraine told Renai that it’s not the house which is having the problem but it’s Josh who is the problem here that he is possessed by the soul of Parker Crane which came in when he tries to rescue Josh during astral Projection and the real Josh is still trapped in the Further. Carl attempts to take down Josh who is now possessed by Parker by a Drug to be put in him but the attempt was foiled as Josh now brought a knife with Carl came to know through dices. Specs and Tucker came to his aide but Josh possessed by Parker took all of three knocked out. When Lorraine and Renai came back, Josh started to behave differently which both Lorraine and Renai came to know that its Parker crane now. Josh attacked both of them. He locked Lorraine in the closet and tried to choke Renai to death but Dalton knocked him on his head which gives time for Renai, Dalton and Foster to escape from there and all three of them went to basement. In the Basement, Dalton asks Renai to let him go to the Further where he could find real Josh and will get back with real Josh. Renai allows that. Dalton with a tin can telephone ties with him and sleeps to go to Further.

On other side, real Josh and Carl meet each other and tried to find Elsie in their previous mansion. When real Josh fighting with a soul in the further in Lambert’s mansion and he was having trouble to overcome that evil soul, Elise came there and meet both Carl and Josh. They suddenly went to Parker’s home and to the memories of him where his mother was abusing him that his name is not Parker and he is not a boy and his name is Merilyn and he is a girl. Mother of Parker notices all of three and pushes away from there. Josh suddenly finds some bodies standing there and one of them was Parker’s mother which attacks Josh. Also the possessed Josh breaks into basement and was about to kill Dalton who was in Further. As Parker’s mother was about to kill real Josh, Elise came there and starts hitting her with rocking horse chair and killed her. Dalton meets the three of them and assisted Carl and Josh to escape from there with the help of the string of the tin can telephone. In the present world, Josh collapsed and regained conscious and told them he is the real one now. Carl hypnotized Josh and Dalton so that they forget their astral projection abilities and lead a normal life. Next scene came as Specs and Tucker rang a bell of house and speaks to the parents of the daughter for whom they want help. Elise walks into the home and wants to talk to the daughter Allison to tell her what’s going on in here. Some noises and a shadow behind the girl came up and Elise shocking said “Oh my God”.

Review: As Insidious part 1 gains a lot of acknowledgement from people around the world a lot was expected from this part and it delivered to the expectations pretty well. It’s the same as creaky noises, footsteps and door banging noises which will raise the thrills in the movie pretty and have some scenes which will damn scare to the fullest specially of the mother slapping and saying “Don’t you Dare”. Performance was almost decent one by almost all the characters of the movie. Direction as usual of James Wan was brilliant and so can be said for the screenplay of the movie. A little disappointment could be said in the story part. The story part which raised so many standards in the 1st part of Insidious goes down a little bit in this part. Overall James Wan has re-engineered a new type of thrill and horror in the film industry which is very fun to watch out. A good movie and a must watch for everyone.

Stars given: 4 out of 5.

Insidious

Name: Insidious

Genre: Horror/Thriller

Cast: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Barbara Hershey, James Wan (Director)

Synopsis: A shadow of an old woman seen inside the house. Renai and Josh have moved into a new house with their three children. Renai with her son Dalton was looking at a family photo when Dalton asks that there is no picture of Josh during his childhood. Renai told him that Josh is camera shy and doesn’t want his photos to be taken. One evening, Dalton sees an attic and goes down to investigate it. When he was trying turn on the light of the attic, he falls from the ladder towards the floor. During that he sees something horrifying. Renai and Josh take Dalton back to the bed and told him not to play again in attic. Dalton doesn’t wake up the next and was taken immediately to the hospital where doctors told them that Dalton is in Coma. After 3 months, Dalton is taken back to home as he is still in coma. Soon some disturbing events started to happen. Renai hears a voice on baby monitor shouting “I want it now” and also a blood hand print on Dalton’s bed and a stranger man in her daughter’s bedroom. Another incident when her youngest son tells her that he doesn’t like when Dalton walks around in night. Renai gets very depressed told these events to her husband Josh and told him to please move to another house and they moved. But the Strange events continued to happen in the new house. Lorraine, Josh’s mother tells that she also had a strange dream where she was in Dalton’s room and some strange person who was standing next to him. She asked what does he wants and in reply to that he wants Dalton. She saw red faced figure standing next to Josh to which she got scared. Lorraine immediately called her friend Elise Reiner who specializes in paranormal activity investigation. She and his team on initial investigation and draw a figure of black body, red face and hollow eyes sitting on the Dalton room’s ceiling.

Elise explains then that Dalton has the ability of astral projection while sleeping and he has been doing this quite often. His physical body is here but his spiritual body is not here and has been travelling to another spiritual world called The Further” a place of tormented dead souls and this is the reason why he is in coma. These tormented dead souls carving their way in this world through Dalton’s body and the most dangerous intent is having their way in by that demon black body, red faced figure and the old dangerous woman. But for spirit to consume a body it takes time and a lot of energy. Josh at first instance didn’t believe in all that but seeing pictures in Dalton’s house same as Elise description he accepts this fact. They run a session where they tried to talk to Dalton but later on, dead souls who want to take over Dalton’s body fights Josh, Renai, Elise and her assistants using Dalton’s body. Elise called Lorraine and she explained that Dalton has this ability because Josh too possessed that ability during his childhood as he was too terrorized by an evil old woman spirit and only he is the person who can bring Dalton back. Josh agrees to that.

To prepare for astral projection and to find Dalton, Elise made Josh sit on the chair and places him a trance. He suddenly wakes up and finds that he is in a different world as he astral projected as his physical body remains on chair but his spiritual body is moving. As he proceeds further to find Dalton he sees a boy pointing him towards a house He encounters a family who is shot by a dangerous woman member of the family in the living room. Josh make his way further and he sees a red door as he sees in the Dalton’s picture. But before opening the door he is encountered by an aggressive man as seen by Renai before. He defeated that man and enters that red door. When he enters that door he sees a balcony with red light and full of burning candles and a little bit further he sees Dalton being chained. He freed Dalton but the Black body red faced demon attacked them but both of them ran away from there in search of their real bodies while demon was still in pursuit of them. Just as they move further he told Dalton to move as he sees old woman and confronts her. He screams at her that he is know not afraid of him anymore and later that shadow of the old women goes into the darkness and Josh and Dalton suddenly wakes up in the real world and the evil spirits disappear. Whole family reunited and was happy. Josh hands Elise the pictures of his childhood and asks her to destroy them as they isn’t scared of it anymore but at the time of taking pictures he takes those pictures and put them in his bag. She takes a picture of Josh to confirm something but Josh goes to rage and aggressive and strangling her to death. Renai hears yelling sound from the room and goes to check the room. She sees that Elise is dead and Josh is gone. She shouts for Josh but wasn’t able to find him. She suddenly sees the camera dropped nearby her and got scared and shocked. In a little flashback it was revealed that Elise see that the same old woman who had been present in the Josh’s childhood snaps that terrorize her now had taken over Josh’s body as she possessed him. Josh then puts his hand on the Renai arm saying “Renai. I am here” and she got scared and horrified as she looks back towards him.   

Review: One of the very good movies made by James Wan. What’s very good about the movie or I should say one of the features of James Wan is that he will make you feel thrilled and horrified without splitting blood and without some horrified faces. How the creaking or banging doors, groaning floor voices and the horrifying and terrified scenes make you thrilled with full of surprises. Most actors performed their roles in the movie very well. It was a little disappointment in the end as the standards or high levels which it sets in the first half, couldn’t maintain the same in the second half. Story of the movie which looks very astonishing in the first half, goes way down in the second one. Also the ending could have been a little better but the movie is very good as a whole with full of scary scenes and whole lot of horrifying and terrifying moments.

Stars given: 3.5 out of 5.