Movie: 'Insidious' surprises at Box Office

Nicole

Looks like a cool funhouse supernatural horror film. Like Poltergeist meets Paranormal Activity. And thank God Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne are good actors so the inevitable plot holes and lapses in logic won't be as glaring.

TSDMusicND

OMFG

on 1:26
and OMFG

I cannot wait!

Knix

Yea, i'm going to see this.

It looks like it is going to be sickening

Reeces

I'm so going to watch this. It looks amazing

Navin

I actually have hopes for this movie.
If it ends up being like "The Fourth Kind" i may just be a bit disappointed.

Nicole

J@rv$

Looks amazing but sucks to be me...i dont watch horror movies cause I will literally get a heart attack

Wick

So much scarier than Paranormal Activity (1 and 2). I loved it!

Forevermore

Interesting.

JasperX

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Originally posted by Haus_of_Nicole

Looks like a cool funhouse supernatural horror film. Like Poltergeist meets Paranormal Activity. And thank God Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne are good actors so the inevitable plot holes and lapses in logic won't be as glaring.

I'll watch it tomorrow ! Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne are definitely one of the reason I'll see it

Crank_It_Up

I want to watch it. I might next weekend.

Nicole

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FilmDistrict’s classic horror pic Insidious also scored a sizeable victory in opening to an estimating $13.5 million from 2,408 theaters, considering the film -- from Paranormal Activity producers Jason Blum and Oren Peli -- cost less than $1.5 million to produce. Most box office observers thought the movie, made in the vein of Poltergeist, would only clear $10 million.

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Dephira

This movie looks so much like Paranormal Activity to me from the trailer. Right down to the "It's not the house that's haunted, it's the kid" line.

YoYo

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Explains the very poor marketing.

And I thought it looked like a cheap "the exorcist" knock-off

Nicole

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Originally posted by YoYo

Explains the very poor marketing.

And I thought it looked like a cheap "the exorcist" knock-off

But it's actually better than you'd think:

EW:

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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. Yes, it's that unsettling. Directed by James Wan (Saw) and produced by Oren Peli, the auteur of the Paranormal Activity films, the movie is about a couple (Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne) whose home is plagued by the usual clanks, growls, and playfully sinister disturbances. Then one of the family's young sons lapses into a coma. It's his spirit that's been hijacked, overtaken by ghosts who have a way of showing their creepy, smiling, old-fashioned nightmare faces at just the right moment to goose you with anxiety. Lin Shaye plays the psychic exorcist who can see into their world, and her fluky cornball intensity lifts the film into a realm of menacing excitement. Wan is better known for severed limbs than subtlety, but here he reaches back to the stately spookiness of the 1962 low-budget classic Carnival of Souls and adds a touch of early David Lynch to conjure up a vision of hell that is terrifying in its dreamlike banality. Like most haunted-house films, Insidious is a contraption, but it's one that won't let go of you. A–

ROLLING STONE:

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Here's a better-than-average spook house movie, mostly because Insidious decides it can haunt an audience without spraying it with blood. This is major since director James Wan is the artery sprayer who gave us the first slice of the Saw series. The plot is yet another succubus feeding off The Amityville Horror and Paranormal Activity with teacher dad (Patrick Wilson) and songwriter mom (Rose Byrne) moving into an old house with their two young sons and a new baby. That's when things start to go bump in the night and one son (Ty Simpkins) falls into a coma.

The reasons you won't slip into a snooze is that Wilson and Byrne play it for real and Wan and witty screenwriter Leigh Whannell work you over like pros. In a multiplex ready to sucker punch us with wimpy kids and animated swill about Easter bunnies that hop-hop-hop, Insidious thinks we'll be better served by a scare flick that can fry nerves and tickle funnybones in high style. I sure was.

JasperX

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But it's actually better than you'd think:

EW:

ROLLING STONE:

Just saw it. The plot is actually been there.
However, the perfect mix of high-pressure creepiness with funny moments make the movie so enjoyable. and Jame Wang even made "day time" ****ing scary.... that is such an achievement.
Opening with 13.5 million is shattering all expectations.

(and congrats to Hop and Source Code also shattering expectations)

Nicole

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Originally posted by JasperX

Just saw it. The plot is actually been there.
However, the perfect mix of high-pressure creepiness with funny moments make the movie so enjoyable. and Jame Wang even made "day time" ****ing scary.... that is such an achievement.
Opening with 13.5 million is shattering all expectations.

The day-time scene where Rose Byrne sees that child/dwarf like figure dancing through the window was sooo creepy.

JasperX

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The day-time scene where Rose Byrne sees that child/dwarf like figure dancing through the window was sooo creepy.

Yeah....the part is a scary and also funny punch.
James wang are really into dolls.
Did you saw the jigsaw doll placement? I was like

☈evolusion

Looks interesting

Corefield

This movie scared the **** out of me! I'm usually never scared when it comes to horror movie, cause i've seen so many.

But this one. HOLY ****. Seriously, go see it.