Also released as
- Sobrenatural - Insidious
- Insidieux
- Insidious: La noche del demonio
- Коварен
- วิญญาณตามติด
- Sobrenatural - A Origem
- 潜伏阴儿房
- غدار
- Ruhlar Bölgesi
- อินซิเดียส
- Quỷ Quyệt
- Insidious Chapter 1
- 白日梦游记
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Insidious
Insidious is a 2010 American and Canadian haunted house film directed by James Wan.
Wan's best jump scares and the film that built the modern haunting industry. The Further is silly and it works.
goreledger editorial rating: 5/10 · Read the review
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Wan's best jump scares, and the reason there are now five of these.
A family's son will not wake up. It is not a coma. The house is not haunted, and moving does not help, which is the twist the film plays at the halfway point and which is a strong structural idea.
The red-faced figure behind Patrick Wilson's shoulder is one of the great cheap shocks, and it is staged in daylight with no music sting until after you have seen it, which is why it works on people twice.
Joseph Bishara wrote the score and plays the demon. The strings are deliberately ugly.
The last third goes into The Further, which is a fog-filled soundstage with lanterns, and loses most of the tension the first hour built. Everybody agrees about this and it made 97 million on a 1.5 million budget anyway.
Goreledger editorial rating
5 / 10
Wan's best jump scares, including the red-faced figure staged in daylight, and a strong halfway twist that the house is not the problem. The final third in a fog-filled soundstage loses the tension the first hour built.
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Checked 9 Aug 2026
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