Let's talk Insidious 3.

[lurkandmurk]

I never watched the first one. Thought it was just another one of those pop-scare-filled shytty movies. I picked up Insidious: Cheapter 2 tonight because I haven't watched a horror flick in a while.



The story actually connected with the first film and dug deeper into the back-story and why everything happened. It came out in 2013 and I was late to get to it, but damn is this a good story. Not only will it make you jump and give you creeps, they entail an intricate perspective of limbo, the place between life and death. I'm not gonna spoil anythin for anyone else, but it's a really plot, and a really good story. I never saw the first but I could still understand what went on in the first movie without it explaining to much.

They have time traveling in this

Then I realized how it linked to everything


In the ending at the very end they made it as though there might be another chapter for Elise, something that she's seen in the past.

Hopin someone might give some insight to this part.

 

[GoddamnyamanProf]

Personally I dont like it when horror films morph into an adventure film for the protagonist. Evil Dead had the sense to do an entirely different movie/series for that. So I liked the first half of Insidious and not so much the second. And the sequel was more in step with the second half so

 

[lurkandmurk]

Personally I dont like it when horror films morph into an adventure film for the protagonist. Evil Dead had the sense to do an entirely different movie/series for that. So I liked the first half of Insidious and not so much the second. And the sequel was more in step with the second half so

To be completely honest...it reminded me of Silent Hill in a way. The games, not the movies. They also did a spin on The Shining which was cool. They also attempted to mark on the fact no one has really tried out astral projection in a horror flick (it's more of a thriller) so the whole concept is new to me.

Maybe it's just me...to be honest I don't really believe in ghosts..but there are times when I much younger, my mom would reminisce on how I would tell her to watch out for certain things before they would happen. So the astral projection maybe put a point in my opinion on the entirety of it. I enjoyed how they back-tracked, going backwards to move forwards.

Tell me how the first & second halves were different in the first movie? I never saw it.

 

[MexicanKingpin]

The 2nd one was trash the 1st one was raw but they fukked it up after that

 

[MartyMcFly]

The 3rd one could be dope. The issue with the 2nd one is that it doesn't hold up on a 2nd viewing for me and it KINDA makes the 1st one less scary. It explains everything that didn't get explained in the 1st and for me, the worst thing you can do with a horror movie is start explaining shyt.

 

[FrankieLymon757]

The second one ruined the experience cause its basically a comedy....

 

[lurkandmurk]

The 3rd one could be dope. The issue with the 2nd one is that it doesn't hold up on a 2nd viewing for me and it KINDA makes the 1st one less scary. It explains everything that didn't get explained in the 1st and for me, the worst thing you can do with a horror movie is start explaining shyt.

That's true, it makes a vague air of menace and what might happen next, still though actually explaining what's happening and why it's happening opens up a lore for this 'series'. I mean damn, I'm already a fan of Elise, and I like how the wife and mother of the possessed dude were not dumb broads and went back to the house like idiots, it's only because that evil old fukked up spirit sent them a fake text when the takeover plan went down. They actually used common sense instead of the ol cliche where women aren't just weak they're dumber than a door-nail.

Speaking of texting though, how the fukk does a dude who was already old in like 1950s-60s, come back as a spirit in current time and learn how to use a cellphone? Most older people have enough trouble as it is, couldn't the wife figure out that since her husband knew how to but suddenly didn't know how to explain that, that's not really him?

Plot hole.

 

[MartyMcFly]

That's true, it makes a vague air of menace and what might happen next, still though actually explaining what's happening and why it's happening opens up a lore for this 'series'. I mean damn, I'm already a fan of Elise, and I like how the wife and mother of the possessed dude were not dumb broads and went back to the house like idiots, it's only because that evil old fukked up spirit sent them a fake text when the takeover plan went down. They actually used common sense instead of the ol cliche where women aren't just weak they're dumber than a door-nail.

Speaking of texting though, how the fukk does a dude who was already old in like 1950s-60s, come back as a spirit in current time and learn how to use a cellphone? Most older people have enough trouble as it is, couldn't the wife figure out that since her husband knew how to but suddenly didn't know how to explain that, that's not really him?

Plot hole.

But to the rest of what you're saying, I agree in to an extent because it does open up the mythology and allow you to go other places with it but don't start explaining where scares are coming from to the point that it undercuts your movie and I feel like that whole third act just undercuts the unexplainable stuff in the 1st movie thus rendering it less scary

 

[b@squ1@t]

loved the first one...never saw the second...now im hesitant to see it

 

[MartyMcFly]

loved the first one...never saw the second...now im hesitant to see it

Don't be. It's worth a look breh and last I checked it's streaming on Netflix. It has its moments and I do like it but I know a lot of people don't.

 

[b@squ1@t]

Don't be. It's worth a look breh and last I checked it's streaming on Netflix. It has its moments and I do like it but I know a lot of people don't.

yea i thought the 1st one was one of the best "horror" movies ( even tho its not super scary just a dope storyline) i'd seen in a while...yea i gotta see the 2nd one

 

[GoddamnyamanProf]

To be completely honest...it reminded me of Silent Hill in a way. The games, not the movies. They also did a spin on The Shining which was cool. They also attempted to mark on the fact no one has really tried out astral projection in a horror flick (it's more of a thriller) so the whole concept is new to me.

Maybe it's just me...to be honest I don't really believe in ghosts..but there are times when I much younger, my mom would reminisce on how I would tell her to watch out for certain things before they would happen. So the astral projection maybe put a point in my opinion on the entirety of it. I enjoyed how they back-tracked, going backwards to move forwards.

Tell me how the first & second halves were different in the first movie? I never saw it.

First half was just a dumb but fun creepy/jumpscare flick done pretty well. Then they put on that stupid gasmask and like I said it basically changed the genre of the movie halfway through, which Ive never been a fan of. Then the 2nd one went back and explained all the creepy shyt from the first one with some goofy timetravel plot. Basically it was like a b*stardized jumpscare mashup of Donnie Darko and Back to the Future.

 

[lurkandmurk]

But to the rest of what you're saying, I agree in to an extent because it does open up the mythology and allow you to go other places with it but don't start explaining where scares are coming from to the point that it undercuts your movie and I feel like that whole third act just undercuts the unexplainable stuff in the 1st movie thus rendering it less scary

For this situation it might have been necessary, cause if it's not the house that's haunted and you were in that situation what would you do...you can't move, can't put it behind you, and they had to figure out a way to solve this. It wasn't a random-assed spirit either it was one of the mom's patients. If they didn't do it this way..then you gotta Grudge movie where all the characters see her but they don't do a damn thing to stop her.

That malicious old man.

Turns out, he's a cross-dresser.

 

[MartyMcFly]

For this situation it might have been necessary, cause if it's not the house that's haunted and you were in that situation what would you do...you can't move, can't put it behind you, and they had to figure out a way to solve this. It wasn't a random-assed spirit either it was one of the mom's patients. If they didn't do it this way..then you gotta Grudge movie where all the characters see her but they don't do a damn thing to stop her.

That malicious old man.

Turns out, he's a cross-dresser.

I was fine with them saying "it's not the house that's haunted, it's your son" because the movie sold me on that world. I don't mind them explaining the spirit and who the spirit was, but what I do mind is them telling me this thing that happened in the first one that scared me actually has a legitimate reasoning behind it, almost like they retconned the first movie

 

[lurkandmurk]

I was fine with them saying "it's not the house that's haunted, it's your son" because the movie sold me on that world. I don't mind them explaining the spirit and who the spirit was, but what I do mind is them telling me this thing that happened in the first one that scared me actually has a legitimate reasoning behind it, almost like they retconned the first movie

Which one though, Darth Maul or Woman in Black?