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Originally Posted by HenryHill51
I'm typically not a fan of horror movies, but when I find one I like, it has a certain stillness and atmosphere to it. Ti West's "House of the Devil" is one. Alot of Kiyoshi Kurosawa, especially "Pulse". So there's my horror tendencies.
With "Insidious", I appreciated the stillness of the first half, punctuated by some chilling images (whatever that was standing quietly in the corner of the baby's room.... the demonic voice that is caught on the baby monitor etc). The first half got me invested in what was going on and establishes itself as an atmospheric, baroque ghost tale. The second half, as i said above, goes pretty bat shit crazy in this netherworld of nightmares and goes to some pretty disturbing places IMO. The whole thing worked for me. I was thrilled from beginning to end.
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WELLL maybe the part where you said "I'm typically not a fan of horror movies" explains a bit to me. BUT if you picked up on the amazing atmosphere of House of the Devil, then we're thinking alike there.
I guess what happened was this. The first half of Insidious, we both saw this really good creepy well done movie. The second half I was like "OMG how did that fuck THAT up??????" but you actually enjoyed it. So if anything, we're just differing on our opinions of like 40 mins. Haha.