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Originally Posted by tropical marsh
I'm kinda shocked any real horror vet would find Insidious scary. Personally, I thought it was fairly lame with the dimension warping, body swapping, ghosts popping up in the real world, etc. It was just way too silly to be scary. I was literally rolling my eyes for the duration of the last 30 minutes.
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So because someone watches horror films more than the average person, no matter what, it should have no effect on them? Isn't the point of a ghost/haunted house movie to have ghosts enter the real world? Poltergeist has dimension warping, The Exorcist has 'body swapping'. I don't see how you found it to be so 'silly' because other well-respected horror films have these same ingredients. Insidious had some genuinely creepy moments and some scenes totally scared the shit out of me (the porch scene??!) I actually had trouble sleeping too after this one. I haven't had a film unsettle me like this since I was a kid. One of the best horror films to come out in recent years, definitely.
Also, anyone else think the score was fucking awesome? The strings really add a lot to the tone of the film.
~Matt