Insidious

Insidious is an American feature film of the horror genre with an emphasis on the haunted house and ghostly apparition motifs. It was directed by James Wan with a screenplay written by Leigh Whannell. The film was produced by Haunted Movies in association with IM Global and Stage 6 Films and presented by Alliance. It was first screened at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 14th, 2010. On October 11th, 2010, it was screened at the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival in Spain. The movie was released theatrically in the United States on April 1st, 2011. The premise of the film revolves around a small boy named Dalton Lambert, who mysteriously falls into a coma, shortly after his family move into an old house with a dark past. Dalton's family come to learn that their son can project his astral essence into The Further - a plane of reality in between dimensions, where he becomes the puppet of a malevolent entity. Insidious stars Patrick Wilson as Josh Lambert, with Rose Byrne as his wife, Renai Lambert. Ty Simpkins plays Dalton Lambert with Andrew Astor as his older brother, Foster. The movie also features appearances by Lin Shaye as medium Elise Rainier, and Barbara Hershey as Joshu's mother, Lorraine Lambert.

Notes & Trivia

 * Copyright holder: Alliance Films (UK) Limited; All rights reserved.


 * The original working title of this film is The Astral.


 * The tagline for this film is "It's not the house that's haunted". This is also a line of dialogue that is paraphrased by one of the main characters.


 * Production on Insidious began in April, 2010.

Recommendations

 * Annabelle
 * Conjuring, The
 * Conjuring 2, The
 * Insidious: Chapter 2


 * Insidious: Chapter 3
 * Oculus
 * Purge, The
 * Strangers, The