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Insidious, 2011 supernatural horror movie

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insidious - 2011 supernatural horror movieA couple of weeks ago I was scanning Project Free TV for good horror flicks I’d never seen and soon found the 2011 supernatural horror movie Insidious. Given the mostly positive reviews and the potentially creepy supernatural subject matter of Insidious, I was rather surprised I hadn’t heard of it before, even though I don’t track the big screen like I used to due to budgetary constraints. Here’s the lowdown on Insidious, hopefully sufficient to help you decide if it’s a horror movie for you.

insidious - 2011 supernatural horror movieCountry: U.S. – April 2011
Director: James Wan
Horror themes: Haunting, intruders, coma, astral projection, paranormal investigation
Verdict: 65/100… A good horror film
Official trailer: Insidious movie trailer at IMDb

Brief synopsis of Insidious
A family looks to prevent evil spirits from trapping their comatose child in a realm called The Further.

insidious - 2011 supernatural horror movieSynopsis of Insidious
Renai and Josh Lambert (Rose Byrne and Patrick Wilson) and their three kids just moved into a new house. As son Dalton is playing, he has a scare in the attic; when he cannot be awoken the next morning, he is rushed to the hospital where they learn Dalton is in an unexplained coma. Three months later and still in a coma, they bring Dalton home to care for him there. Escalating paranormal events occur and they end up moving to a new house – but this proves fruitless, as increasingly violent and supernatural events occur again. Josh’s mother (Barbara Hershey) contacts a friend of hers, Elise Reiner (Lin Shaye), a paranormal investigator. But can she discover the root problem and restore normalcy to the Lambert family?

insidious - 2011 supernatural horror movieMy thoughts about Insidious
I watched Insidious a couple of days ago and I thought it was significantly better than the average horror movie. The cast performed superbly.

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The Haunting of Helen Walker, 1995 gothic horror

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turn of the screw by henry james - famous ghost story on which many horror movies are based

The Haunting of Helen Walker is based on The Turn of the Screw, a novella by Henry James which is often studied by literature buffs. Another famous horror movie based on The Turn of the Screw was The Innocents (1961, U.K.).

Synopsis of The Haunting of Helen Walker
Helen Walker, a young American woman, is hired as a governess for two English children, a boy and a girl, whose parents are dead. The children live with their many servants in an old English mansion. Gradually Helen notices the weird behaviour of the children and finds out that some strange events from the past seem to be haunting the present and concentrating on the children…

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Stay Alive, 2006 gaming horror movie

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Directed by William Brent Bell

Stay Alive: Widescreen Extended Director’s Cut
Watched May 1, 2009
Verdict: 3 of 5

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You Die In The Game – You Die For Real.
The blood runs deep in this extended director’s cut of STAY ALIVE, the mind-bending thriller about a killer video game. The real world and the game world gruesomely collide when a group of friends play STAY ALIVE, a mysterious underground videogame that kills the gamer whose character dies in play. In a death-defying race against time, the survivors must solve the mystery of the game while desperately trying to stay alive. More spine-chilling gore and action, plus all-new never-before-seen material — including a new character and subplot — push this version way over the edge of what could be seen in theaters.