Turning the Page

We are proceeding with the next chapter: Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013). It sort of feels like filler.

It starts 30 years ago, with Elise from the first movie visiting Patrick Wilson's character as a young boy. He has been having supernatural problems. Elise settles these, and makes him forget.

In the present day, Elise is dead. We saw Wilson killing her at the end of the first movie. He is definitely under suspicion, but he thinks he's innocent. As things start getting weird again, the family moves back in with his mother, Barbara Hershey. This puts him back at the scene of his childhood trauma.

They also get back in touch with Specs and Tucker, still mourning Elise's death. They go through her files, and find the tapes she made of Wilson's case. They enhance and find the image of adult Wilson standing behind himself as a boy.

The boogie man in this chapter turns out to be "The Bride in Black", a serial killer from back in the day who wore a black wedding dress. Spirit flashbacks reveal him to be an abused kid with psychosexual mommy problems - I am not sure this is at all interesting.

Slightly more interesting is when Wilson becomes completely possessed by the spirit of the bride, and his son, who was lost in a coma in the last movie, must go into the Further (spirit world) to extract him.

This is a busy movie, with a lot of genuine tension and scares. It also didn't hold together especially well for me. It was great to see Elise again, both in her early days and as a spirit. But on the whole, this didn't especially hold together for me. Let's see what the next chapter holds.