Insidious Chapter 2 has a creative story and isnt just a rehash of the ...

'Insidious Chapter 2' is an intriguing second part of director James Wans' story and seeing the narrative of the two films come together is worth the ticket price. 'Insidious Chapter 2' stars Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne.

By Kofi Outlaw Screen Rant / September 13 2013

'Insidious Chapter 2' stars Rose Byrne.

Matt Kennedy/FilmDistrict/AP

Enlarge

Insidious Chapter 2 picks up right where chapter 1 ended with Renai Lambert (Rose Byrne) discovering the corpse of murdered medium Elise Rainier (Lin Shaye) with her husband Josh Lambert seemingly the culprit. After a police investigation fails to connect the fingerprints that strangled Elise to Josh the Lamberts are set free to return to life as normal only normality never comes as more supernatural occurrences begin to plague Renai and her once comatose son Dalton (Ty Simpkins) with Josh oblivious to it all in his militant insistence that the family get back to normal.

Skip to next paragraph Screen Rant

Screen Rant had a humble start back in 2003 as a place to rant about some of the dumber stuff related to the movie industry. Since then the site has grown to cover more and more TV and movie news (and not just the dumb stuff) along with sometimes controversial movie reviews. The goal at Screen Rant is to cover stories and review movies from a middle ground/average person perspective.

Recent posts How much do you know about pop culture Take our quiz to find out Paula Patton's 'Baggage Claim ' 'Ender's Game' what will succeed at the box office this fall 'The Conjuring' Stars Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga are the best part of the film ' else if (google_ads.length 1) ad_unit '' document.getElementById( ad_unit ).innerHTML ad_unit google_adnum google_ads.length return var google_adnum 0 google_ad_client pub 6743622525202572 google_ad_output 'js' google_max_num_ads '1' google_feedback on google_ad_type text // google_adtest on google_image_size '230x105' google_skip '0' //

Subscribe Today to the Monitor

Click Here for your FREE 30 DAYS ofThe Christian Science MonitorWeekly Digital Edition

Meanwhile Elise s former assistants Specs (Leigh Whannell) and Tucker (Angus Sampson) recruit a veteran medium named Carl (Steve Coulter) to help contact their former mentor and solve the case of who murdered her. However as the team digs into Elise s death they quickly find connections to Josh Lambert and the entities haunting him getting closer to a dark truth that spans time and space life and death.

James Wan is by now an established name in the horror genre and he s enjoyed recent horror movie success thanks to his summer hit The Conjuring. However Insidious was a much more divisive movie in terms of fan reception and that stigma combined with high expectations based on Wan s other 2013 horror entry are likely going to challenge Insidious Chapter 2 in regards to viewer satisfaction. Harder still will be the adjustment as viewers realize that Wan has less interest and re heating old Insidious ghost story leftovers and instead uses the sequel to truly expanded the mythos of his characters and world ultimately creating something that is more akin to The Shining.

RECOMMENDED How much do you know about pop culture Take our quiz to find out

While Chapter 2 does include a few effectively creepy signature Wan scare sequences the majority of the film is dedicated to laying out a two handed narrative (once again co written by Wan and Whannell). On the one hand we get a Shining style psychological thriller centered on the Lambert household on the other hand a supernatural horror mystery revolving around Elise s team and their investigation into the history of the ghostly old woman who killed Elise.

Next

Articles Source here