Insidious (I)/ Movie Review

Release Date: 1 April 2011 (USA)    Genre: Horror | Thriller

Runtime: 103 min

Tagline: What's in that picture?

Storyline

A gripping story of a family in search of help for their son, Dalton, who fell into a mysterious comatose on one ordinary morning. Little do they know that there is much more to this endless sleep than meets the eye as they explore the paranormal, and rediscover the past; the key to getting their son back once and for all.

Director:  James Wan

Writer (WGA): Leigh Whannell

Box Office

Budget:  $1,500,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:  $13,271,464 (USA) (3 April 2011) (2408 Screens)

Gross:  $53,966,569 (USA) (7 August 2011)

Production Co:  FilmDistrict, Stage 6 Films, Alliance Films

Casts  :

Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne , Ty Simpkins , Lin Shaye , Leigh Whannell , Angus Sampson ,

Barbara Hershey , Andrew Astor , Corbett Tuck , Heather Tocquigny  Ruben Pla  John Henry Binder

"Insidious" revolves around the perfect couple. Beautiful kids. A new home. It's all smooth sailing until Dalton is in a supposed "coma", but the actual reality is that he's haunted. What will Dalton's family do to stop this entity?

The film begins with a mysterious old woman (Philip Friedman) near an ominously lit back window. She smiles and then the screen flashes to black.

A couple, Renai and Josh Lambert (Rose Byrne and Patrick Wilson), and their three kids have recently moved into a new house. One morning, Renai begins looking through a family photo album. Her son, Dalton (Ty Simpkins), joins her. He asks why there are no pictures of Josh when he was a child, which Renai reasons that he has always been camera shy. After Dalton tells Renai he is scared of his new room, she calms him down and stacks a few books on a nearby shelf. Later, after finding those books laying on the floor, Renai tells Dalton to put them back after he looks at them, but Dalton claims that he didn't touch them. Sometime later, as Dalton is playing, he hears noises in the attic and goes to investigate. He steps on an old ladder to turn on the light when it breaks, causing Dalton to fall. He starts screaming after looking at a shadowy corner. Renai and Josh help him, then tuck him into bed, confident he only took a minor spill and scared himself. The next day Josh goes to wake Dalton, but he doesn't move. They rush him to the hospital where the doctors say he is in an unexplained coma. 3 months later, still in a coma, they bring Dalton home to care for him there.