Harefooted Halloween: Insidious 1-3

What I liked: Oh boy, I don’t think anything.

What I didn’t Like: The problem with all these haunted house/paranormal/ghost pictures is there tend to be no rules that are stuck to.  It’s all plot convenience and the Insidiouses are no exception.  Everything feels made up on the spot with no forethought of where the story should be heading or what should be happening.

Jump scares.  They’re one of the worst things ever invented in cinema.  They’re startling (and annoying), not scary.  Big difference.

Overall Impressions: These movies bring nothing unique or particularly interesting to the horror table.  They’re boring with long stretches of little, no or predictable plot development contrasted with rib jabbing jump scares.  Plus they’re like trying to wrap your arms around a jellyfish because the ghosts do whatever they want whenever they want.  If you can’t understand the game then it’s gonna be hard for there to be stakes and for people to get invested.

Chapter 2 was probably the best one with the more intriguing storyline of the father (Patrick Wilson (The Conjuring)) being possessed by a demon instead of his nine year old son and there’s less downtime in general.  But I can’t believe they made three of these with a fourth on the way very soon.  I genuinely don’t get what the appeal is.

Man, I know this is like a nothing review of three films but they stink plain and simple.  From the writer/director team that brought you Saw, Leigh Whannell and James Wan respectively, comes another series of messy movies that don’t make sense.