Insidious 2 review

When insidious was released, I was instantly drawn to it. And while it wasn’t perfect, it did its job of giving me a good scare, and I enjoyed it. The creepiness of the first film was executed well, so I was genuinely scared when I saw it on screen. Unfortunately, Insidious 2 was not able to instill such fear and even at some parts becomes silly.

The plot of the first movie is that Dalton can separate his body and enter a magical spirit world called the Further. When he separates his body he could be possessed by other spirits. Josh, Dalton’s father, also has the ability and in the end of the last movie, used it to retrieve his son from the Further. Unfortunately for him, while Dalton was able to return to his body, his body was possessed by the bride in black.

This is where the second movie picks up, with the family employing some ghost hunters to help look up the bride in black. After they figure out more about her, they travel to the Further together and get Josh’s spirit back after they killed the mother of the spirit that possessed Josh.

While the first movie used good suspenseful moments for their scares, this one sticks to good old jump scares, which got old pretty quick. The whole tone of this movie has been toned down a little bit, with the dark creepy mood replaced by a sillier and almost funny mood.

For your money’s worth I would recommend that you wait and go rent the first movie before you even decided to see its sequel. Then and even then I would tell you to wait until this movie goes to a matinee showing to save you a few bucks.