Insidious: Chapter 2 is the sequel to Insidious. It is once again directed by James Wan and stars Patrick Wilson once more. If you read my review for the first one you'll know that I really enjoyed that movie and found it really scary. This one picks up were the first one ended and once again this family is being haunted by ghosts. The big question is: Is it as scary as the first one?
Well, the answer is no. Actually the film isn't very scary at all, although it does have it's creepy moments here and there. I believe that this is due to the fact that James Wan had The Conjuring released only a few months ago and probably put all of his effort into that movie. What saves this film though is the story itself. It is still a ridiculous story, but like the first one what sells it is the acting and writing. Patrick Wilson was fantastic here and delivers an excellent performace. He truly stands out from the rest of the cast, although they all still did a good job. The pacing here is much faster than the first one and the story is pretty cool. The thing that I loved though is how they connected it to the first one. It was very cool and very smart how they did this. There are some creppy moments though, but the film ends up trying to use jump scares to scare the audience and not even those made me jump.
If you are looking to get scared Insidious: Chapter 2 is not for you, but the story itself is interesting enough as to justify a trip to the cinema to watch this. I hope that the third part is scarier than this since, after all, this is supposed to be a scary movie. Thank god it had a well written script and good acting, since that is what saved this movie. Insidious: Chapter 2 gets a 3/5
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