twaddle

I agree about the movie; it was a huge letdown. But, FYI, "twaddle" is one of those words that immediately signals to anyone reading it that "the person who wrote this is an insufferable sort who could really use a good kick in the jewels or be forced to watch a marathon of Smurfs and/or Chipmunks movies."

See also "banal," "claptrap," "piffle," "hokum," "sine qua non," "enfant terrible," "vapid," "dreck," and "Warholian."

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I have meddled with the primal forces of nature and I will atone.

agreed, this makes danny dyer films look like the shawshank redemption!

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H is pronounced Aitch NOT Haitch !

Your right it was awful! I have just done review but seriously possibly the worst and most boring horror film i have ever sat through. Just another ripped off, going through the motions, badly directed money making scheme!

Seriously bad film

I have to agree. This movie made the first one look like Donnie Darko of horror films... it kind of happened to be good... but accidentally. And then this movie proves James Wan isn't the genius brilliant oh what a god filmmaker every twat on this planet claims.

Insidious wasn't scary, though it was creepy for the first half. (Once the whole Darth Maul stuff came to fruition, I was just rolling my eyes, but up until that point, I enjoyed it immensely.)

This movie, chapter 2, jesus christ, it took me four days to finish it, what a snorefest.

I've long since given up on Wan. He's a mediocre director and an even worse writer who recycles the same plotlines and twists in several of his own movies and who relies too much of derivative jump scares rather than coherent storytelling and meaningful character development.

His early stuff, like Saw and Dead Silence, is worthless B-grade garbage both built around the same obvious twist. With Insidious and The Conjuring he at least managed to generate an atmosphere of unease and hostility while working with fairly generic and clichéd material, but then both movies took a turn for the ridiculous and ended up being unintentionally hilarious.

The guy is just a bad storyteller.

Thank you. Finally someone said it. Everyone person I've spoken to said Insidious scared them or made them jump, and quite frankly it makes me scratch my head and wonder why.

The writing was mediocre at best and it was clear it tried to be a modern day spin on Poltergeist, which was piss poor (not Poltergeist, at least the effects in that were good for their time--Insidious is a joke in that department). The direction was abysmal in that the set-ups for jump scares didn't work and it was just rather schizophrenic in not being sure what it wanted to do in some moments. The effects are some of the blandest and most boring I've ever seen. And for the love of god, WHY did people crap themselves over the use of Tiny Tim music in the first movie? I was expecting it to do a cut-away scene to an episode of Spongebob.

For a movie that tries to set up for something that will leave you startled and crapping your pants, I fell asleep through it (or if I managed to stay awake, I laughed at it). Horror is dead at this point, especially since people are piggy-backing on an overdone sub-genre (paranormal) that is becoming so unoriginal and boring that you might as well just start calling them "Generic Paranormal Movie #****".

To people who found this scary, can you please tell me why? I must be missing something if I spent most of my time riffing this movie than taking it seriously.

"I'll go,because I am Cinema!" - Ben (Man Bites Dog)

The first one had some good moments and some scenes that were actually creepy. By the second helf it kinda shifted from a horror to a horror comedy and it was kinda fun. They were working with a fairly small budget with a first movie so I expected the bigger budget will help the sequel. It didn't. The movie wasn't scary nor it was fun to watch. It was just boring. 3/10 and I'm being generous

Uuu...You are a real tough guy. What a dick...