Insidious Chapter 2 (2013) 7/10

Starring : Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Ty Simpkins, Lin Shaye, Barbara Hershey
Director : James Wan
Running Time : 106 mins

With the police investigating their home following the mysterious events that occurred there, Josh Lambert (Wilson) and his family move into the house of his mother Lorraine (Hershey). Wife Renai (Byrne) starts experiencing strange occurrences surrounding a mysterious ghostly woman in white, and Josh becomes possessed by the spirit of a troubled young boy.

This is an interesting horror flick in that, though it does use many of the standard haunted house conventions, the reactions of those involved seem far more realistic than in similar movies. Josh finds himself in a state of denial over his repressed powers of astral projection, his wife is torn between her suspicions that her husband is somehow responsible and his love for him, and the two “ghostbuster” –like characters actually lend some humour to the film. There’re some neat explanations for Josh’s odd behaviour as a child, and in many ways I thought this was far superior to the original movie.

You’ll like this if you liked : The Conjuring