Random Horror

I know this is moving slightly away from my typical “Random Horror” but I am not averse to bigger pictures which I why I relished the opportunity to watch Insidious. Having received it as a Christmas present in 2011, I couldn’t wait to watch it and I have since seen it several times. Insidious follows Josh and Renai Lambert and their three kids. After moving into a new house, the family struggle to settle and things are set back even further when Dalton, one of the kids falls into a bizarre coma like state. This causes more strain on the already thinly stretched family but it isn’t until Renai experiences strange noises and ghostly activity that the family decide enough is enough! They move into a new house to try to escape the supernatural activity which has been plaguing the poor woman only to experience the same thing in their new home! On the advice of Josh’s mother Lorraine, Renai calls in an expert and promptly invites paranormal investigator Elise into their new home. Along ...

 Not the Dummy we expected!  I skipped past this film so many times, having lived the last three years of its life on my shelf but when I eventually did decide to watch it I was pleasantly surprised. As with most cinema failures, it soon found its way into bargain bins everywhere and generally forgotten by the public. As my experience has taught me, you can't take the word of a few film critics as gospel. Despite this early set back, DVD sales fared somewhat better, finally bringing this little gem to a wider audience. A lot of people would immediately see the proud banner splashed across the top of the DVD case and assume that because James Wan, who Wrote, Produced and Directed the original Saw film that they would be in for the same dark, dingy shock horror film that saw Cary Elwes ultimately hacking off his own foot in a last ditch effort to escape a prison in which he had awoken some hours earlier. This film is far from the shock gore fest that saw Wan gain a c...