I think I prefer this to the first instalment? It reigns in some of the cheesiness and tells a fairly compelling story rife with subcontext about parental abuse. Sure, it's still just a vehicle for dead silence followed by loud noises designed to make you jump, but past that there is some actual storytelling and themes on display which is very nice. I'm also a sucker for linking two seemingly unrelated moments together across films, so when they showed the banging and alarm sequence from the first Insidious was Josh in the astral plane in 2, I couldn't help but grin. Good film, one of the rare sequels that is better than the one that came before it.
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I think I prefer this to the first instalment? It reigns in some of the cheesiness and tells a fairly compelling story rife with subcontext about parental abuse. Sure, it's still just a vehicle for dead silence followed by loud noises designed to make you jump, but past that there is some actual storytelling and themes on display which is very nice. I'm also a sucker for linking two seemingly unrelated moments together across films, so when they showed the banging and alarm sequence from the first Insidious was Josh in the astral plane in 2, I couldn't help but grin. Good film, one of the rare sequels that is better than the one that came before it.