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After their invention of the “torture porn” horror sub-genre, director
James Wan and his writing partner Leigh Whannell got more ambitious with
Insidious. Instead of relying on gore and queasy close-ups, Wan created
terror with something as simple of a hallway or a child’s toy. For any
director, this kind of tension is difficult to achieve: Wan’s wanted to
create suspense with tight editing and atmosphere, and it worked. There
are moments in Insidious where the audience anxiously waits for the
other shoe to drop (i.e. jarring imagery that’s the payoff of the
suspense). The sequel Insidious: Chapter 2 tries to recreate the same
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It’s
been a couple years since Josh Lambert (Patrick Wilson) and his wife
Renai (Rose Byrne) expunged a demon from their son, yet their house is
fucking with them again. Wan and Whannell provide the explanation with
an early flashback: as a child, Josh was visited by Elise (Lin Shaye),
the supernatural expert from Insidious, and she intuited that young Josh
was haunted. Rather than sever the relationship between young Josh and
the ghosts, Elise hypnotized him so those memories wouldn’t affect his
life. As an adult, weird shit starts to happen and Josh does not quite
seem like himself (he’s possessed), so Josh’s mother Lorraine (Barbara
Hershey) goes to Elise’s underlings (Whannell and Steve Coulter) for
answers. This leads them to creepy abandoned museum, naturally, while
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Chapter 2 falls apart because it’s never surprising. During Wan’s
tension building moments, there should be times where he’s in control of
his audience, and they can’t help but cover their eyes in fear. The
editing and scares are just not in the sequel: there’s a familiar, lazy
sequence where things move through Renai’s house while it should be
empty, and rather than be scared, there is the knowledge that Wan is
failing at his attempt to scare us.Wan touches on some primal
fears here – a dark basement will always be scary for as long as they
keep making horror movies – but a horror craftsman needs tight editing,
and more importantly, a cohesive narrative. There is no sense of family
in Insidious: Chapter 2, which is a crucial omission since all movies
like this tap into the fear of breaking up our most basic institution.
The Lamberts are not unit pushed to their breaking points; they’re
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missteps aside, there are plenty of references for longtime horror
fans. Wan and Whannell frame Insidious: Chapter 2 around two pairs of
parallel horror sequences. The first pairing riffs on two trends in
modern horror: Lorraine explores the abandoned hospital, found-footage
style, while Renai deals with the old-school scares of her creepy-ass
house. It’s the genre equivalent of mixing sweet and spicy (or
something), and it’s interesting to see how Wan twists the screenplay so
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second set of parallel sequences greatest hits of the genre: while
Renai deals with Evil Josh, a la The Shining, Good Josh stumbles into a
supernatural flashback that plays out like Norman Bates’ worst
nightmare. Wan and Whannell have clearly done their homework, yet they
tie the two Joshes with a time-travel conceit that leaves more questions
than answers. Not everything has to make sense in horror movies,
especially supernatural ones like these, but the screenplay upends the
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Chapter 2 is not the only movie Wan and Whannell released this year.
They’re also responsible for The Conjuring, which critics and audiences
loved. I didn’t see it, but Svetlana raved about The Conjuring, noting
how she watched the movie with her (abundant) hair covering her eyes.
That’s precisely what Wan and company want, and while the look is right
here, they do not achieve the same chills. Maybe Wan put all his energy
into The Conjuring, and Insidious: Chapter 2 is the sloppy seconds of
his directorial prowess.