GamerTab That was an excellent one.

SteinMo What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.

Sabah Hensley This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Yazmin Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

dannydc-07666 The Second chapter for this awesome horror series picks off exactly from the end of the first movie with the death of Elise. This time its Josh who is affected with the image of the woman in black from his childhood. Josh is a suspect for the death of Elise, so they stay with his mother Lorraine whilst police check for evidence. However, shortly after their arrival, the parasites then begin to try and take over Josh's body; as he has been to the Further before.The second chapter is very similar to the first. However their is more showings of the other characters. There are many scary scenes, and an awful lot of job scares. There is also a change of scenery then the old house, as about half hour of the film shows an abandoned hospital. The thing that i really like here is how the ghost that Josh has been seeing was a patient in the hospital, who use to dress up as the woman to commit murders. I thought that this was a clever idea. I still feel that chapter 1 was slightly better than the second one. This is because the story was much more simple, and easier to understand than the second one. But again, actors are outstanding, music is awesome and the jump scares are fantastic. This is turning out to be one of my favorite horror series, and i recommend this title.

gw-88697 I suppose this crap keeps people in a job and food on their tables. Road sweeping is more entertaining to watch. I can't include spoilers when it's already spoilt, a bit like rotting fish.

Devon Elson (absolutetravist) Tobe Hooper made the often-cited scariest movie ever made, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. For twelve years, fans demanded more but how could Hooper top what was claimed perfection? A balls to the wall parody of the original was the only way to find new insanity.Horror tag team Wan and Whannell struck the same success, almost 100 times profit on their budget. Insidious 2 was a no-brainer and although they don't go for broke like Hooper, this sequel possesses the formula of the original with entirely bizarre new life. Constantly teasing those similar moments of cleverness found in the first Saw, Insidious 2 addresses the first and instills new meaning behind some of the scares.Much like the first, there is an even more apparent mix of warm familiarity and strange originality. Working with classic conventions of haunted houses and possessions, the Insidious films have an old school feeling. Not just reminiscent of the similar Poltergeist but even further back to Méliès and Wiene surreal theatrics of silent horrors. Even if you aren't part of the masses who jump at every piercing stinger of the dilapidated score, there are plenty of kooky visuals that make exploring the afterlife fun.As for the story, this is where the sequel falls short of the initial success in less is more. If you were critical on that third act turn to more Beetlejuice-esque antics, then this one delivers that in spades. With multiple stories all interweaving through time and worlds, the intense engagement of the first is diminished noticeably. While unabashedly fun, it becomes harder to relate to the continued hauntings of the Lamberts.Patrick Wilson is delightfully hammy, genuinely performing as if he were a spirit excited to torment people once again in the living world. Unfortunately, his standout delivery leaves the always wonderful Rose Byrne and the rest of the cast looking clueless as to his not-so- secret condition.The elegant subtitle of Chapter 2 perfectly encapsulates the film. Very much a straight-forward continuation of the first Insidious, but building on fresh and entertaining elements only introduced late into Chapter 1.

JLRVancouver I watched this film on Netflix because I was looking for something to distract me while spinning on my indoor bike - unfortunately, the movie was neither interesting nor entertaining enough to do so. Pretty much all of the standard tropes showed up: creepy boys dressed up as creepy girls, murderous psycho-mothers, murderous possessed dads (including scenes that looked like discards from "The Shining"), bumbling para- normal investigators, spooky abandoned hospitals, and lots of murky misty shots of the 'other side'. The last was likely a wise move, considering how ridiculous the chief spook looked (and acted) when fully illuminated. The first "Insidious" was reasonably well done and had some memorable moments. This sequel adds nothing to the story and either lacks, or repeats, whatever made the first one worth watching. The last scene seems to set up a franchise revolving around two bumbling ghost busters and their associate 'on the other side'. I'll never know because I won't be watching '3'.