History Film / InsidIous

* TooDumbToLive: Josh... twice in a row. Before entering [[spoiler: the Further]] he was very clearly told that he must act stealthy. Of course, once inside he questioned every being he met. So much for being stealthy. Then once back in his house, before [[spoiler: going back to his body]], he met [[spoiler: the Old Lady that tried to possess him when he was 8]]. With not much time left, he chose to yell at her (while she wasn't in any position to do something harmful against him or someone he cares) instead of continuing his way. In the end, the few seconds he lost [[spoiler: prevented him to come back in our world, and lead to Elise (and possibly Josh's wife)'s demise]].

* [[spoiler: DownerEnding: Josh is possessed by an old woman from The Further he encountered as a child and kills Elise, and presumably Renai.]]

* [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace The Further Is A Scary Place]]: It's full of the souls of the dead forced to relive their deaths. [[spoiler: And it also leads to Hell.]]

** For that matter, the young boy apparition [[IncrediblyLamePun disappears]] halfway through the film.

A sequel has been put into production, planned to be released on September (Friday the) 13th, 2013.

* CreepyChild: The demon first appears to Renai in the form of a little boy. The [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2d/Insidious_poster.jpg cover art]] also seemed to imply that Dalton was this[[spoiler: Unless you look at his pupil which says [[{{Woobie}}''Help'']]. ]], though that's not really the case in-film.

* CreepyChild: The demon first appears to Renai in the form of a little boy. The [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2d/Insidious_poster.jpg cover art]] also seemed to imply that Dalton was this, though that's not really the case in-film.

A sequel has been put into production, planned to be released in 2013.

''{{Insidious}}'' is a 2011 thriller/horror film from the creators of ''{{Saw}}''.

* GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave: Hello, Barbara Hershey.

* GenreSavvy: To paraphrase SomethingAwful, "this is one of the few haunted house movies where the protagonists try ''moving''."

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: There's a drawing of [[{{Film/Saw}} the Jigsaw puppet]] on the blackboard in Josh's classroom.

* XMeetsY: ''Film/{{Poltergeist}}'' meets ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet''.

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Film/{{Watchmen}} Nite Owl]] is Josh.

The family quickly discovers that the haunting has nothing to do with their home. The supernatural outpouring is coming from their comatose son. Several scientific experts observe the son, the family and their home. They determine that Dalton is trapped on the other side in a dark world they call The Further. The parents team with the scientists to try to bring their boy back from The Further and save him from the clutches of a dark entity that hopes to claim him as his own.

* [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace The Further Is A Scary Place]]: It's full of the souls of the dead forced to relive their deaths. [[spoiler: And it also leads to Hell.]]

** In the scene where Elise tries to make contact with a dreaming Dalton, the gas mask she puts on looks exactly like the one used by [[TheSandman Dream of the Endless.]]

* {{Supernatural Proof Father}}: [[spoiler: at first. Later it is revealed that the reason he was ignoring the evidence was that he too was haunted.]]

* {{Offscreen Teleportation}}: Done by the Smiling Family.

** Composed by the same guy who played the red-faced demon.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: [[spoiler: The ghost of the old lady has been inhabiting Josh's body since when he was a child - that's why he sees the old woman in the mirror while in the further: being there remids her of her true nature.]]
** That's probably more of a WMG than this trope.

* XMeetsY: ''{{Poltergeist}}'' meets ''ANightmareOnElmStreet''.

* {{Supernatural Proof Father}}