Insidious

Insidious is a horror story about a family of four with two boys, moving into a new house. In exploring the attic, the older boy, Dalton, falls off a ladder and falls into some sort of coma. When doctors can't predict when Dalton will come out of the coma, the family is given permission to bring him home from the hospital to reest in his own bed. That week, the mother starts to see demons around the house. The demons start to get more and more aggressive, until the family is convinced that their new house is haunted and they decide to move to a new one. When the demons continue to show themselves in the new house, the family hires a psychic to help. The psychic tells the family that their house isn't haunted- in fact, their son's soul has been captured and demons are attempting to enter his body. At first, the family doesn't believe the psychic, but when the father's mother comes over to comfort them and tells the father about a similar experience that he'd had when he was young, the father and mother decide to hire the psychic again. The psychic tells the father that the only way to save Dalton is to go into the demon world, find his soul, and come back out to the real world. The father almost accomplishes this; he got Dalton out. However, another demon took control of the father's body while he was in the demon world, and the demon inside the father kills the psychic. The last scene of the movie is when the mother finds the psychic dead on the couch, and the demon-father puts his hand on her shoulder, setting up for the sequel coming in September 2013.

In my opinion, Insidious was a well-done horror movie. The plot wasn't very revealing because the acting was very good, and the ending really caught me by surprise. I thought that the psychic (Lin Shaye) was the scariest actor in the movie because of how mysteriously she acted and the absurd way that shedied. The demons also had really good costumes and makeup, which made them look totally authentic. I thought that Ty Simpkins seemed like a pretty inexperienced actor for the first part of the movie, and throughout the middle of the movie all he did was lie in a bed. However, there was a scene where he got possessed by a demon and he played that perfectly. Really crept me out. I'm definitely looking forward to the sequel.