Myst #1: Insidious

I love horror films and I'm pretty judgmental on deciding if the film is scary enough for me and by the way I'm not so easily scared from horror films and or if the film has a unique ending that will be remembered by me. The director James Wan directed this film and others including "The Conjuring", "Saw" and "Demonic" which were intended to put the audience on the edge of their seats wondering what would happen next while at the same time being scared from what's going on. while watching the movie, I was being judgmental in figuring out that the next scene was going to happen next. however, when half way through the film, I started noticing that the film was taking a different turn in its events. In most movies I watched, I usually get bored while watching about half way of a horror film in hoping that either the movie ends or that someone that I thought would least die would die, but this movie took at better approach. (Spoiler) The film starts of when the child (person on the front cover) of a family of three become possessed by the devil. As a possessed child, the kid starts doing possessed things until the family decide the physically and mentally help the child by tying him up and getting the devil out of his body by saying rituals to get the devil out. When realizing that it was a lot harder than it looks to get him back, the family decide to take a different approach. The family tie up the son and father and put these gas like mask in them. Next, the family brings in a professional to help in bring back the son. With the gas like mask, the professional sends the fathers soul and mind to "hell" to bring back the son's soul. When the father does bring him back, he beats the devil. I thought it would another typical movie where the good guy wins but instead what happens is when the father brings back his son's soul, he becomes possessed coming back. At the end of the movie, the father talk with the professional and in the middle of the conversation, the professional realizes that the father is possessed and when the professional comes to a full realization, the father kills her while the rest of the family is in the kitchen comforting the child who has been possessed.


 

 

 

*    Photo of the father being possessed by the devil at the end of the film.

Towards the end of the movie we are taking a closer look at the moment in which the professional realizes of is happening. (Spoiler) The professional is breathless in what happened

to the father as the father becomes possessed (above picture). The professional takes a photo of the father because she can't see the devil inside him so she decided to take a photo of him in hoping that she might spot the devil in which she did. the camera taken from the scene shows a close up the professional woman face showing that she's scared and horrified. Her action is important because it leads us to a foreshadow of what's about to happen to the character or something more dramatic that's going to happen in the near future. the low key lighting shining on the character's face reveals of a dramatic scene that's going to take place. The character seems threaten and in horror in what she had just revealed. She reveals with the light shining in half of her face while the other side is covered with a light darkness as is if she is looking at something dark from either the object of the threat that fills the room. The background shows that the darkness of the character has filled the room and is approaching the character while the character is in fear.

 

In my own opinion, what I enjoyed about this movie is the major plot twist the characters were involved in, especially toward the ending. The characters endured a lot especially the father and the son with a major battle to save the son while the mother watched in hoping that everything will go fine and that nothing bad will happen. This movie went well when the plot twist came up with weird obstacles and challenges the character faced along with the ending was perhaps one of the best endings and it's usually hard to say with a film never the less and horror film. What I didn't like is that before the plot twist happened everything happened in a typical horror film with a family coming in contact with something possessed and that possessed scaring the victims and audience half to death before killing the victims. I would recommend this movie to those who love horror films but specifically to those who love horror films and who are judgmental when it comes to movies for they may get their comments wrong.

Official Trailer