An impressive Horror film from start to finish with so many creepy jumps & thrills that will keep you on the edge of your seat!

Insidious is a really scary movie. (Grudge and The Ring fans stay away) There were moments when I jumped, right off my chair...!

Not a bad movie overall. Reminded me of a 90's horror flick made up of several sub-genres. Bit lame in some parts but a makes up for having a few good scares.

I loved the first half of the movie, made me jump just enough, and actually creeped me out a little. It reminded me a lot of Poltergeist with a little Paranormal Activity. However, the second half started off quite well but then declined to a mushy chase scene that wasn't as exciting as the director supposedly intended it to be. The end was something I enjoyed again, and I would recommend this one as a creepy but not at all gory film.

It suffers from the usual cliches, hammy acting and comparisons to other films of the same genre and goes off the rails by the half way point. That being said, it does have an undeniably retro feel and the first half is suspenseful and creepy.

James Wan knows how to make some very good horror scenes, but doesn't really know how to make the whole film to work. It's quite creepy right from the beginning, but with every minute it's starting to be more grotesque to the point where in "The Further" it's just hilarious (where everybody would expect it to be most intense there). But overally good fun. My opinion might be quite biased though because I have a tendency to score horrors seen alone in an empty cinema a little bit higher.

I think everyone expecting a horror was anticipating the wrong thing. Genuine creepiness with Drag Me To Hell -esque silliness. How can you honestly not see that from the ending?

Total shyt

There's one reason for me that I decided to rank Inscidious with the highest possible tear: The flick scared the shit out of me. The first half of the film is very tense with some great thrilling moments, and the song that's been played by the grammophon over and over again stayed in my mind for a long time. Pretty awesome horror movie.

the thing about this film is it's not dreadful or crap cause it did scare the hell out of me but it looked cheap acting wasn't all that grate and was confusing and unbelievable at some parts. is a good film in whole warning don't watch by yourself.

I hate, hate, hate, HATE the turn this movie took for the worse.

I have to say, I was expecting a better ending. The beginning wasn't all that great either.. but the story-building parts were great. It was so intense. I think they did a good job creating the evil spirits, it is sort of a more modern look on our classic demon-spirits. The acting wasn't great, but it worked well enough to sell the story.

I loved Rose Byrne in this, and it was nice to see Barbara Hershey, but the story is a lot of spiritual nonsense and other worldly hokum. Stupid special effects and ridiculous monsters and absolutely inane story. By the ending I was really sick of this movie.

At the beginning is seemed a great movie. However, soon enough when that woman and the spirit chasers come, the whole movie becomes so far-fetched and unreal that is completely boring. Nice ending scene however.

I dont do ghost films

The first half was very well done. It was creepy, oozed atmosphere, etc. The second half I still liked but not quite as much. I enjoyed that they took it in a different route (sort of) by going into The Further, and I liked that there was a story about astral projection because every other movie explains hauntings differently (and generically). Feeling a bit different than a lot of horrors, just like Saw 1 did, this movie rarely falls to stupid cheap scares, and uses its elements wisely.

A good attempt at an outdone and unoriginal premise, but it has redeeming merit in it's refreshing and somewhat creative effort to avoid inanity and delve into the aphotic realms of the supernatural. Particulary, astral projection, which is a subliminally impalpable concept that has been rarely explored in horror films.

It's somewhat original and I really liked the atmosphere created by the filmmakers. I don't typically care for the "jumpy" scare movies because they are just too predictable and, frankly, not truly scary, but Insidious had some other good things going for it besides just jumpy scares.

Some well done scares when you catch little glimpses of the baddies, falls further and further from scary the more you see. Downfall of the genre. Really felt the big scary demon was scarier, when you only saw peeks. Still , well made and worth a watch.

f off, darth maul.

Effective until the 3rd act.

Genuinely creepy. Looks great. Nice direction. Awful script.

Scared me quite a few times. Then it just started being silly. Better than most of the horror movies they make these days.

if i am correct, this is done by most of the 'paranormal activity'-crew. this story evolves in a very similar way. the first glitches, the unbelieving husband etc. this movie is quite inferior however, even though the makers seem to understand the genre. some images and moments are disturbing, but they don't stick with you like in paranormal. however, it might suffice to scare most of the viewers, but not me, tough nut that i am :)

Opening is fantastic, turns out being a decent horror film but still falls to some of the cliches of the genre. Unfortunately during the last bit of the film they shove everything in your face and everything looses its effect and horror and tension goes right out the window. Close, but another not so great horror film.

This is how horror movies are done!! I have a theory that if movie producers really wanted to give us heart attacks they would do so.. They are always holding back because if the movie it's too scary many people won't dare to watch it and then they loose money. They will loose some money on this;) Scary as hell. Probably the best horror flick I have seen in terms of excitement! I was at the edge of my seat nearly pissing my pants throughout the whole movie :) story not perfect but pretty good!

First half was really creepy but the second half and ending was a let down. On a positive its nice to get frightened without the use of gratuitous violence and bloodletting.

Insidious isn't a bad film because it does deliver quite a few scares. However, it won't satisfy the desire for innovation, and because it's so easy to predict, many of the scares will be negated because you'll see them coming. It's still a fun film with strong characters, but don't expect something that's all that unique. Insidious is enjoyable but severely lacking in originality.

As far as horror flicks go, this is one of the more enjoyable ones.

Movies like this really frustrate me. One on hand I got the sense that the director was attempting to be subtle. And that approach works; the first half contained one or two very effective horror moments. But then the last act takes that subtlety, rips it out from under you and spits on it. I'm not always expecting Blair Witch Project levels of subtlety, but I can't help but feel disappointed when an otherwise good horror film blows its load before the 60 minute point.

Spends its first half pretending to be a generic haunted house movie for some reason, then becomes fitfully interesting. Unfortunately the blah directing and most of the acting prevent it from becoming more than a curiosity.

It's heartening to see that Wan has sort of improved since his horrible debut, Saw, but this still wasn't exactly great. We get some nice haunted-house-thrills early on, with some genuinely creepy moments, but things get kinda goofy later. The first glimpse of the demon's face was actually scary, but later on, as someone else mentioned, I realized it was a nekkid Darth Maul. Basically it should've been scarier or sillier and it could've worked either way. Ah, well, not awful.

Would make a great horror movie cliché drinking game. Random end sequence was a bit long but I got a few nice screams with this one.

6- pretty good, decent

Really scary! Good end! Thumbs up.

Started out good but got just silly and boring very quickly once it ventured into the supernatural stuff.

lol. while it's nice to see something so innocently ridiculous from the makers of the quite appalling Saw-franchise - and I do like that it recognizes its ridiculousness without getting overly meta and ruining it (much like Sam Raimi's excellent Drag me to Hell) - it's unfortunately just not that scary or exciting. An okay timewaster.

This one was quite creepy in the beginning or at least until the medium and those "scientists" came on, afterwards it was really boring and not thrilling at all.

What the hell was this nonsense? I saw scarier things in my toilet bowl this morning. Clumsy, predictable and thoroughly unnecessary. The editing and camerawork were subpar most of the time as well. If this frightened you I hope you're 10 years old, else there is no excuse.