This is what happens when a typical, average, and sometimes stupid horror movie premise gets executed perfectly. At least for the first 45 minutes. Past that it loses it's subtlety, but the scares come so hard and fast that it's hard to care. It's just all around well-made, and can actually come across as a brilliant history lesson of horror film itself if paid attention to.

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.

Insidious is a mixed bag - I was both impressed and disappointed by it. The first half of the movie was fairly good with some creepy scenes that were pulled off fairly well - the pacing man, the dancing kid, the man with the red face. I thought the explanation for everything was original but having a character flat out say "here's what's going on" was lame. The "Further" effects were really weak and the ending was the most predictable outcome ever.

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

The demon looked ridiculous and not very terrifying and there was a surprise ending but overall pretty good.

Actually pretty refreshing for a horror movie. Sure, there are boatloads of musical stings charading as jump scares, but it works because the film seems to deliberately ride the line of b-movie. It definitely pushes on the boundaries of your suspsension of disbelief, but it's a fun ride.

By the numbers horror film - OH GOD LOOK OVER THERE IT'S oh nothing. It plays out exactly how you think it's going to. Some parts are tense, but during the second half - WHAT WAS THAT YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE ME I SAW SOMETHING! Sorry, during the 2nd half, it gets silly. Almost a paint-by-numbers Poltergeist.

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

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.

Great set-up. Worst possible ending ever.

One of the best horror movies recent years have afforded us. James Wan pours on the creepy atmosphere masterfully, and it takes a lot of cues from the classic horror movies of old, which aren't so obsessed with gore as most recent ones are.

If they stuck with a simple haunted house movie it probably would've worked but instead, 9/10s of the way in, we're introduced to astral projection. Huh? Also, my nominee for most unlistenable soundtrack ever featuring string quartets played by a table saws and a piano attacked by flat head screwdrivers. Like everything here, it would've been much scarier if they showed a little restraint.

terrible acting, millions of cliches, stupid script but its one of the creepiest movies Ive ever seen... definitely worth watching especially if you re a fan of the genre

Scary.

At first it comes off as a parody of every horror movie ever, and then it becomes a parody of itself. I mean... are they serious or what?

Definitely wasn't expecting this film to take the turn it did into something very different! It's a very spooky film which will give you many chills, and a few jumps here and there also, but a solid storyline and acting made this very enjoyable to watch. It's not the best in the genre but certainly a solid effort as a family try to help their possessed son. Overall I would definitely recommend it, especially to those that love a good paranormal film with things that go bump in the night! ;)

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.

The first half was scary as fuck, very atmospheric and jumpy then the main entity was revealed a little too much and it dragged on a little and it lost some of it's mystery. The paranormal experts trying to be funny fell way flat and at times it felt like it was going on forever. I did like the ending a lot but there was about 30 minutes towards the end where I felt it was getting a little too silly. Nice ideas though, with the astral projection and the Further.

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.

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.

Truly classic horror. Relies on story-telling, suspense, and general creepiness instead of gore and cheap "gotcha!" type gags. Reminiscent of 80s horror films, and a real pleasure to watch.

Porzadnie zrealizowany, potrafi wystraszyc (muzyka! jump scene!) i do samego konca trzyma przed ekranem w zainteresowaniu. Jeden z ciekawszych horrorow tego lata.

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.

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.

Not too bad as horrors go, ending let it down though.

Pretty good for a low budget horror flick. Maintains a tense atmosphere and has a few scares. It's instantly forgettable but at least it doesn't pretend to be something more than what it actually is.

Great first half, then it gets silly.

Not bad, with those smart and funny scenes.

Somehow made what would normally be cheesy and lame rather creepy.

Seen better horror movies than this one. A bit along the lines of Paranormal Activity. The plot too is a tad complicated to grasp.

This is why I pretty much stay away from horror films, especially new ones, because they can never seem to contain new ideas. Why must most new horrors become amalgams of better movies from decades past? When Hershey said she knew who to call, I was praying for a resurrection of the medium from Poltergeist to exorcise the demons. After that the film got a little bit better with the faux-science stuff, but still nothing remarkable.

The first 2/3rds of this are scary as hell, then it kind of goes to crazy town in the last third, but it doesn't become ad just...different. It kind of changes from a haunted house movie to a Carpenter movie and I don't see how that can be seen as a bad thing.

You have to admire the creative lengths that Whannell and Wan are able to stretch the Hollywood system, but ultimately it's just a somewhat smarter version of most mainstream horror films. The astral projection is the most salient element, so I would like to see that explored in more horror films in much more detail. The supernatural still has untapped potential that the horror genre should take advantage of.

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 a trip; a ride.

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

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

Works hard to build suspense and defy the most obvious expectations, but falters in its attempt to create an otherworldly place with nightmare logic: too much wandering about in the fog with a lantern, and too many very similar iterations of the same few thrills, to the point that the mechanics become so transparent that even the most willing audiences are likely to disengage from the onscreen events. The filmmakers were clearly trying, and often skilful, but in the end lacked imaginative power.

Super awesome start! Plus I loved the music and origininality of this horror. Also the acting is pretty good! The ending is lame though... they should have kept more for your imagination to deal with and less exploring of the dreamworld (although 'the laughing family'-scene was truely AMAZINGLY HORRIFYING (in a good way)!)