Horror films are
quite the oddity. Most are low budget, thinly scripted and meekly
acted with few to no thrills, lack of any tension and little to no
actual horror. With that being said many of my favorite films are
the few horror films that do not fall into this trap and are the
complete reverse providing genuine horror and thrills that keep you
on the edge of your seat. Insidious 2 unfortunately falls into what I
find the majority of horror films to be.
Insidious 2 starts
of with a tedious and yawn inducing sequence with Josh Lambert as a
young boy being haunted by an entity. The purpose however of this
scene is little more then for a door to open which of course leads to
a lackluster and nonsensical moment later in the film in a seemingly vain attempt to justify the existence of the films opening. Insidious 2 then
jumps to the present and continues where the first Insidious film
ended. From this point we are 'treated' to a film which has a concept of
horror that is no more then people wearing white makeup and black eye
liner appearing and at times making some loud noises in several poor attempts at jump scares and nothing
more. Put simply Insidious 2 is in no way scary and lacks any
tension, suspense or thrilling moments. To make matters worse
Insidious 2 also tries to explain the many nonsensical occurrences in the
film but has no interesting exploration of what is occurring and its
attempts to shock and scare the audience are frequently laughable.
It doesn't help
that performances throughout are mostly woeful with the
actors and actresses delivering their lines in a robotic and wooden manner. The one exception is Patrick Wilson as
Josh Lambert who provides for a mostly passable albeit average performance.
Insidious 2 is a
mess of a film that lacks any sense of tension, suspense, thrills or
anything the least bit entertaining. This combined with mostly wooden
performances, a nonsensical story and frequent moments that are unintentionally laughable has Insidious 2 come not recommended.
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