Insidious: A young couple (Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne) with three children moves into a new house. Soon, their oldest son Dalton begins to see things that aren’t there and falls into a coma without explanation. The rest of the family begin to see and encounter strange, violent goings-on, including people who appear and disappear, threatening the children. They move houses…but the strange phenomenon don’t stop. It’s not the house that’s haunted…it’s Dalton, and other “beings” are using Dalton as a door into our world. And it’s up to his father Josh to enter a nightmarish half-world to bring him back. From the minds that gave us “Saws” One through Bajillion, James Wan (who directs) and Leigh Whannel (who has a role as one of the pararnormal researchers that helps the family), this genuinely spooky movie has many creepy images and well-staged bits of supernatural goodness all around. Well done and suitably unnerving, I liked it. Sure, the basic plot isn’t necessarily anything new - there have been haunted house movies for decades, in particular, those where parents save their children from danger (“Poltergeist“ is probably the closest comparison). But like the best ones, it does so without gore, showing you just enough to let your mind fill in the holes. And remember - nothing is scarier than little dead kids. Woodchuck sez, “Check it out.”
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