Insidious

Insidious (2011)

  • 67% of critics liked it
    (158 reviews)

  • 64% of users liked it
    (58,098 ratings)

Saw franchise veterans James Wan and Leigh Whannell team with Paranormal Activity writer/director Oren Peli to give the familiar haunted house story an exciting new twist with this tale of a family that moves into an old house and begins to suspect they are under siege from otherworldly forces when… More

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PG-13, 1 hr. 42 min.
Directed By
James Wan
Genres
Horror
In Theaters
Apr 1, 2011 Wide
On DVD
Jul 12, 2011
FilmDistrict

Critic Reviews

  • Bruce Diones, New Yorker

    Wan and Whannell have, in effect, ripped pages from the "Poltergeist" playbook and stripped the formulas down to old-style gothic scares.

  • James Berardinelli, ReelViews

    If there's a complaint to be made about Insidious, it's that the film's second half is unable to live up to the impossibly high standards set by the first half.

  • Tom Long, Detroit News

    Insidious isn't scary. It's laughable. And kind of sad.

  • Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger

    There's little new here. And what is new isn't well done.

  • Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail

    Nothing slows down a movie down like people sitting around a living room discussing the meaning of "astral projection."

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Jeff "


    James Wan is slowly becoming one of horrors finest young directors. With a string of solid horror films under his belt, James Wan is one of the most talented directors in the genre today. After such films as Saw and Dead Silence, Wan delivers Insidious, a truly terrifying horror film.… More

  • Alexander D


    PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2 + THE LAST EXORCISM + INCEPTION = INSIDIOUS. (To use the most modern examples, of course.) This movie is probably the freakiest piece of work I have ever before seen in my life (well, maybe that's a good bit of exaggeration), and I am a HUGE horror movie… More

  • Jason O


    I'm not one to get scared or jumpy at a movie at all, and to me, "The Exorcist" was never scary at all and mega overrated. But..."Insidious made me jump a few times and I found it to be gripping throughout, but especially the latter half. Scariest movie… More

  • Anthony L


    *Spoilers* Considering the Haunted House genres has been done to death, Insidious doesn't do a bad job and it was a brave move by it's makers that paid off. It's not brilliant though. The first half is a case of 'It's what you don't see' that scares… More

  • Carlos M


    Possibly one of the scariest movies I have seen in the past few years. It is very well directed, avoiding the easy clichés and maintaining a constant tension instead of going for the cheap scares. It is always great to see a smart horror movie that really knows how to scare the hell… More

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