Insidious : Chapter 2 Review
It's been a whole month since I've seen this film, but there's things about it I just have to write down. Insidious : Chapter 2 is the 2013 sequel to 2010's popular horror film Insidious, both directed by James Wan and written by his longtime collaborator Leigh Whannell, who not only wrote and made the first Saw film with Wan, but also starred in Saw opposite Cary Elwes and and stars in these films as Specs. The main cast is Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Barbra Hershey, Ty Simpkins, And Lin Shaye all reprising their roles from the first film. The premise of the sequel unfortunately cannot be told without spoiling the first film, but it's one of the points I want to bring up. The new film begins right where the last film left off, when Renai finds Elise dead and suspects Josh, who had been in the room with her before. But when he shows up, he convinces her that he has no idea who killed her and they decide to stay at his mother's house for awhile. This is where t