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DAY 21.1: Insidious: Chapter 2
On AMC

I feel like consensus on this has to be "good but not nearly as good as the first movie."

Insidious: Chapter 2 picks up where the previous film left off, but it appears an entity has attached itself to the patriarch of the family and won't let go.

It's really good. It's just, you know, not as good as the first. The visuals are there. A lot of the scares are there. The sound cues are on point, but this movie just doesn't have what made the first one so special.

I think this is just because the story doesn't lend itself to have a lot of legitimate scares to it. In the first movie, we had a lot of unknown spookiness and general scary BS. In this one, we just don't. We have a lot of lore. We have a lot of talking. We have a lot of slow, plodding scenes. While they have payoffs, they just lack a lot of what made the first special, and I actually think a good part of the reasoning for this is also because we kind of know what is happening. Like, we know precisely how this story is, generally, going to go. Nothing is a shock. The reveals aren't groundbreaking.

While Patrick Wilson does good work in this movie, it still doesn't match up to the absolute terror in the first one. It's been a while since I watched this one and I just remember the same sort of disappointment, but on a second watch I was able to figure out why I felt so disappointed.

But this movie isn't bad, not by any stretch. It's just not an incredibly special movie like the first one is. And that's fine. I enjoyed it. I just always feel this sense of disappointment when I watch it. It's still great and worth a watch though, despite me sounding pretty down on the film.

Rating: 8/10

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