Insidious: Chapter 2 (15) 105 mins ***
2011’s Insidious was one of those rattly New Horror funhouses that irked
the purists yet loosed a lot of spare change from jumpier cinemagoers’ pockets.
For this inevitable sequel, co-creators James Wan and Leigh Whannell return to
their Saw playbook, installing
spooked parents Patrick Wilson (complete with newly suspect squarejaw) and Rose
Byrne (now the best hysteric in the movies) at grandma Barbara Hershey’s house
before shifting backwards and sideways around them to establish a tricky
continuum with the first film’s events. Again it tends to treat its gotcha
moments as throwaway wind-ups designed to spill and thus sell more popcorn, but
the narrative reframing – opening up a Twin
Peaks-like multiverse in which further chapters may yet unfold – is
ambitious, and Wan remains a crafty enough director to draw one’s eye warily
across the frame. You shouldn’t feel quite so daft for flinching this time
round.
Insidious: Chapter 2 is in cinemas nationwide.
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