Insidious: Chapter 3

Well made, but no more than that. Where the first movie was innovative and the second was interesting in terms of story, the third one is routine and repetitive. Whannell honours Wan's work and manages to produce a satisfying amount of effective jump scares, but he rather overdoes it in the climax, and the final exorcism of is a recyclate of the shoddiest nature. Does it matter that it's nice to look at and that the cinematographer, director and composer all deserve praise when they have contributed to a film that nobody needed to see, given its predecessors? 65% for the intention and the honesty. (07/28/2015)

Seen during the Challenge Tour - Movie Hunt: Task number 10 - a film that scares you, or that you are afraid of. For the third part, more than good, I was scared in some places, which I need and ask for from a good horror movie. The script is not the showcase of the whole movie, but I do not have high demands on horrors, when I get scared five times, have bad dreams or am afraid to enter the darkness, I am satisfied and the movie fulfilled its purpose. The best part of the series for me is so far the second one. (07/13/2015)

Gone is the ridiculous devil from the first one, gone is the overwrought plot from the second one and we have a solid (the weakest in terms of story = Who cares, it´s not a book bitches?) haunted house film, which this year will be rivaled only by Crimson Peak. The film has really a lot of jump scares, the last time I saw so many was in Drag me To Hell and I appreciate when someone goes full throttle (in exploitation films I want to see a lot of violence, in action films a lot of action, here again scares). The monotonous atmosphere reminiscent of a conservatory rehearsal is something nerds like, but for normal decent people the ned atmosphere is as annoying as the government. The film may feel cheaper than its predecessors, and the string accompaniment is not as thunderous as in The Conjuring, but the goosebumps, the chills down the back and the jumping out of your seat was inevitable (just as you can tell a good song by the goosebumps, so can you tell a horror film). Towards the end, I even shed a few tears with emotion, so the five star was decided. The biggest highlight is the passage through the Dalava, where the dead creatures are truly frightening – I'd love to see a horror film set only in this underworld. The oxygen masked villain is unbeatable, finally no pale girl with long black hair. Compared to the monotonous It Follows, this is a clear winner and the number 1 for the time being. 85% (06/05/2015)

So, no mercy this time. A movie I'd like to punch. If I clap in your face, you'll jump. Even if you know I'm gonna do it, you'll jump because you'll never know the exact moment I do it. Insidious claps about ten times like that, and that's its sole ambition. Everything else – the story, the characters, the setting – is subordinate to that. The camera pans to something, something screams into it, and the heretofore voiceless orchestra makes a KABOOM sixty decibels higher than the loudest sound in the movie so far. Just to make you twitch and then relax and laugh at yourself again. I never used to understand why anyone would voluntarily seek this out for money. Now, after all the Conjuring and Insidious stuff I've seen that has stolen cinema-space from any horror innovations and different approaches and yet always earns ten times its budget, I'm bitterly convinced that only a moron can go to the cinema for money to see this. (09/23/2015)

Solidly made, but this time unfortunately it’s an utterly uninteresting safe bet. The first one laid down the rules and introduced us to the Further and the second one expanded the story in an interesting way, but the third instalment just follows the path set by the trend in ghost/exorcism movies and doesn’t have anything that I didn’t already see in the previous two episodes, and better. For Whannell’s standards, the script this time is woefully unoriginal and unsurprising. Lin Shaye is still great, but she alone is not enough for a higher rating, especially if she lacks the support of the other stars, who unfortunately deliver weak performances. The demon is also great, but we don’t get to know much about it. The film is chock full of jump-scares – unfortunately, I must add, because they always erase any signs of an atmosphere. And the worst is that they go nowhere, the demon shows up, says Boo! and then leaves. Throughout the film I never felt that the heroes were in any sort of danger, that the creators will really let the demon kill them. A barking dog doesn’t bite. That’s probably the biggest complaint for a horror movie. (06/05/2015)