History NightmareFuel / Insidious

* The said 'old lady' [[spoiler: is actually the ghost of a male serial killer named Parker Crane. And his back story doesn't help; he was a transvestite who dressed as an old woman in a black wedding gown whilst committing his murders, and after being hospitalized for self castration, he committed suicide. It's all because of his cruel, abusive and downright terrifying mother who beat him into believing he was a girl. Seriously, she (a regular ghost) is arguably more terrifying than the ''demon''!]]
** [[spoiler: To add, the way he had...well...the ''assemblage'' of his victims corpses when found by Loraine, Carl, Specs and Tucker in his home. It becomes ''much more unsettling'' when they make an appearance in The Further version of the Crane home, when Mrs. Crane hides among them.]]
* During the second film, Renai receives a phone call from the detective working on Elise's murder, informing her that no evidence of Josh's [=DNA=] was found on Elise's neck marks. [[spoiler:This means that Parker Crane's influence is so powerful he's able to ''change his host's [=DNA=]''.]]

* The Red Faced Demon.
** The infamous scene in which the Lorraine speaks about a nightmare she had of a shadowy figure in Dalton's room. When she finishes her story, [[spoiler: the demon [[JumpScare suddenly makes an appearance behind Josh.]]]]
** When [[FanNickname Fireface]] is sharpening his claws.

* The idea of being hunted by body-snatching spirits in your sleep/astral travel, especially if you've had dreams resembling AstralProjection yourself. Thankfully, in real life, if something goes wrong, waking up is usually as simple as just [[ResetButton desiring to be out of the nightmare.]] The characters encountered also can't interact with the waking world or obstruct your ability to wake up...[[ParanoiaFuel usually]].

** The way he ''captures people'': He shoves his key into ''the victim's neck'' to silence them, uses a knife on it's finger to cut into their upper chest, and then puts another key there to knock them out''. And then ''takes their souls into his prison''.

* Key Face. He looks like the unholy offspring of Film/CastleFreak and [[Film/{{Sinister}} Bughuul]].

* Key Face. He looks like the unholy offspring of ''Film/CastleFreak'' and [[Film/{{Sinister}} Bughuul]].

* A non-paranormal example with the opening of the movie, showing Elise's past. With her still having her gift, but with her abusive father who literally tries to beat it out of here. Hitting her in the back with an iron crowbar and tossing her to sleep in the dark basement, and this is obviously not the first or last time he did this.

* The faceless, limbless representation of [[spoiler: Quinn]] in the Further.

* [[FanNickname Fireface]] sharpening his claws.

* The old lady is ''creepy.''
** [[spoiler: And said 'old lady' is actually the ghost of a male serial killer named Parker Crane. And his back story doesn't help; he was a transvestite who dressed as an old woman in a black wedding gown whilst committing his murders, and after being hospitalized for self castration, he committed suicide. It's all because of his cruel, abusive and downright terrifying mother who beat him into believing he was a girl. Seriously, she (a regular ghost) is arguably more terrifying than the ''demon''!]]
** [[spoiler: To add, the way he had...well...the ''assemblage'' of his victims corpses when found by Loraine, Carl, Specs and Tucker in his home. It becomes ''much more unsettling'' when they make an appearance in The Further version of the Crane home, when Mrs. Crane hides among them.]]

[[quoteright:350:[[AstralProjection http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vlcsnap_2015_08_27_22h47m36s343.png]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Umm, hi?]]

* The idea of being hunted by body-snatching spirits in your sleep/astral travel, especially if you've had dreams resembling AstralProjection yourself.\\
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Thankfully, in real life, if something goes wrong, waking up is usually as simple as just [[ResetButton desiring to be out of the nightmare.]] The characters encountered also can't interact with the waking world or obstruct your ability to wake up...[[ParanoiaFuel usually]].

* During the second film, Renai receives a phone call from the detective working on Elise's murder, informing her that the prints on Elise's neck don't match those of Josh. [[spoiler:This means that Parker Crane's influence is so powerful he's able to ''change his host's [=DNA=]''.]]

Thankfully, in real life, if something goes wrong, waking up is usually as simple as just [[ResetButton desiring to be out of the nightmare.]] The characters encountered also can't interact with the waking world or obstruct your ability to wake up...[[ParanoiaFuel usually]].

* Pictured to the right; especially creepy if you've had dreams resembling AstralProjection yourself. Thankfully, if something goes wrong, waking up is usually as simple as just [[ResetButton desiring to be out of the nightmare.]] The characters encountered also can't interact with the waking world or obstruct your ability to wake up...[[ParanoiaFuel usually]].

** The infamous scene in which the Lorraine speaks about a nightmare she had of a shadowy figure in Dalton's room. When she finishes her story the demon [[JumpScare suddenly makes an appearance behind Josh.]]

* The Smiling Family, holy hell.

[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vlcsnap_2015_08_27_22h47m36s343.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Umm, hi.]]

** [[spoiler: the claws clicking at the end of Chapter 2. You didn't even need to see him for your stomach to jump to your throat. Elise's look of horror was all you needed.]]

** [[spoiler: Guess what, it's not a lady, it's the ghost of male serial killer Parker Crane. And his backstory doesn't help; he was a transvestite who dressed as an old woman, and after being hospitalized after a self casteration, he commited suicide.]]