Insidious: Chapter 2

It is safe to say that the franchise jotted a timeline after the first release to deprive any loose ends or plot holes in the sequel. It is understandable knowing the perspective of James Wan and Leigh Whanell in which it becomes easy to extract new devices while marketing new content, due to previously being affiliated with the Saw series. Insidious: Chapter 2 is a supernatural horror film that delves deeper into the haunted Lambert family’s past as they confront terrifying spirits Picking up right from where the first movie has left off.

Chapter 2 allows wholesome potential by ensuring there’s no story to be created out of thin air in order to cram x amount of content having no base within the first movie. Moreover everything is tied in so well, it surely feels like the franchise reaches its natural stopping point in the first movie. Unlike movie three, the plot for movie two isn’t engaging so I do not believe I can critique it highly which is why I did not see the first movie being too enthralling either.

The Bride entity does an ode to the Daughter from the movie and it all intertwines during an enigma, while Renai is interrogated knowing she pulled Dalton from his coma. The aesthetics for the film timeline hop around and give off an ominous feel, one such instance is where Elise is summoned by Josh as she gets younger in the span of a scene from 1986 overlapping with the setting in the Lambert household making her come off as older.

Renai has seen the Polaroid Elise took before she was murdered and is aware that Josh (Patrick Wilson) had been possessed by The Bride but is quiet because she is trying to find a way to put an end to the curse.

Specs and Tucker (Whanell and Angus Sampson) go to Elise’s apartment to assist in sorting things that belong to her. Once they sense the Spirit of Elise who is attempting to relay a message from the other side, they reach out to one of the old associates of the psychic Karl (Steve Coulter). A videotape left by Elise explains to the trio that the Further is experienced in a manner that does not go by the linear order of the reality. It also gives them more information with regard to the real husband of Josh who is the mother Lorraine (Barbara Hershey) uncovered with the family that reside with her in her house.

The first thing that I would want to say in this film is that the made the wrongdoing of making the antagonist a transgender unclothed. I have in the course of one year appreciate that the stories that are told in America on the “disturbing woman that made her son dress as a girl” were actually trans phobic slants for something.

Most likely these women are mothers who loved and accepted their children and let them be what they wanted. These reactionaries from these communities don’t get how a person can love their child the way they do, for they have never seen it. Therefore, they came up with tales that these mothers were bad and were not good to their children and were making them do such things. It’s the same incomprehensible stuff that’s being churned out across the States today, where in the reactionary world, families are only ‘right’ if they shove their child into a harsh & usually nonsensical pecking order.

Making The Bride a male character who was raised as a girl by his maniacal mother is a bad cliché that does not belong in modern horror. You see the same dumb thing in a cult film like Sleepaway Camp, which I can sort of give a pass to because Angela takes out a lot of annoying dickheads at that summer camp. The Bride has nothing to her that makes her relatable or even admirable as a person, other than being a crazy bloodthirsty monster. And then look at the ghost as she appears in this franchise: there is no character behind this ghost, nor motive or even a remotely reducible aim. At some point, these characters seem to intend to eliminate certain people only so that they can attempt to take control of them later. After watching the first movie, I anticipated that the other movies would begin to elaborate on the parameters of the supernatural entities that exist in that world. Instead, this is not the case. So with subsequent movies.

The horror genre has a bad habit of portraying Transgender characters as villains and the character The Bride does not seem to have any defined goals. The character of The Bride is portrayed as possessing Josh, although it’s never evident exactly why she feels the need to do so. Similarly, The Bride appears in abominable ways that continue to perplex me. As portrayed, The Bride seems to be a woman who was a serial killer in her late adult life; repugnant as it is, it is one of the many stigmas associated with transgenders. Furthermore, losing a loved one can take a toll on anyone as it gets done to his mother. But I fail to fathom as to why would anyone want these women to die.

The well-planned murder attempts appeared to be a goal that The Bride aimed to achieve and further murder Josh and then goes into hiding. Although it is primal of a woman to gravitate towards someone like Josh who is seen astral projecting, it remains blurry as to why she did, Josh’s body is easily controllable. So, who would want to step out of a puppeteer’s dominion? Disappointingly so, The Bride becomes easily transferable as a sole link to the movie. Children being wise, as one would presume, go about behavior of Josh in an unpassed manner.

To add to it, this film is a direct sequel to the first part and it is a must watch, just to fully comprehend what’s going on.

However, returning to my original point, I don’t believe it was done particularly well in this sequel. Unfortunately, the dialogue does not help him determine behavior Karl does not have much of a personality which he should have in the sequel.. He isn’t as charming as Elise is. Whereas we hope this film to be about ghosts and haunting, the story is more focused on beating milestones. Punctuations are doted even when it doesn’t make sense in terms of logic. The characters are everywhere to a point where nothing is even mildly terrifying let alone the real deal.

The only detail that Adela describes as standing out is what seemed to them like a grave mistake: Whanell & Wan had Elise killed which, in their opinion, was a huge blunder. Of all the characters in the first film, she is probably the most engagingness. This is where they understood that not all the films would revolve around this family and Elise was a character who could be easily placed wherever and whenever. That is perhaps why Wan made sure that the viewers were clear about Ed & Lorraine Warren being the main characters in the film when it was time for The Conjuring.

They still try their hardest to see if she can still be included in flashbacks or ghostly visits in the Further but I think they were regretting why they killed her.

Amongst all the actors on screen, Patrick Wilson has the most opportunity to act and he is okay. It is certainly a departure from the first one. He is the main villain, acting a man who is a morbid Josh Hugh. That is a good idea but poorly carried out. There are off tones of Nicholson’s Jack Torrance character but not nearly as good as that role was. In a sad development that will continue, this film grants the Lambert clan an opportunity to overcome these nightmares almost without any damage but more of that later when I Discuss The Red Door.

I feel that the best moment in this film was the opportunity to get and dub the role of the young Elise actress which was cast in the opening prologue. I came across an explanation that Lin Shaye has such an outstanding voice. As a result in you will be highly irritated now every time this woman speaks. But in The Last Key where they have Elise as a little girl, I feel that it would have been best if they dubbed her voice too but out of all people Elise gets to voice that child. Well, for consistency, they don’t have to do it, even though it could have been amusing.

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