Sentences with phrase «insidious film»

I knew I really liked this movie when I asked myself which Insidious film I like best and couldn't outright decide.

Whannell promises there will be «little strands» that connect Chapter 3 to the first Insidious film, but promises that audiences can walk into Chapter 3 and enjoy it without having seen the first two.

Sony Pictures» Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle amassed a whopping $ 36 million domestically this weekend, more than both Universal / Blumhouse's fourth Insidious film ($ 29.3 million) and Disney / Lucasfilm's Star Wars: The Last Jedi ($ 23.6 million).

While Blumhouse Productions had a wonderful 2017 - thanks to hits like Get Out, Split, and Happy Death Day - director James Wan's original 2011 Insidious film was one of the company's first big successes, earning nearly $ 100 million on a $ 1.5 million budget.

If you remember, the Bride in Black was in the first Insidious film as a secondary villain and she was portrayed by male actor Philip Friedman.

I thoroughly enjoyed the first two Insidious films due to James Wan's fantastic direction.

When the horror thriller Sinister proved to be a hit, producer Jason Blum (who is also behind the Insidious films) obviously thought a sequel was needed.

The supporting cast is mostly restricted to the background, but character actors such as Angus Sampson (also known for playing the ghost - hunting Tucker in the Insidious films) and Eamon Farren (who made a splash as the disturbing Richard Horne in last year's Twin Peaks: The Return) do get to make some fun appearances here.

Bloody Disgusting has an exclusive look at one of the making - of featurettes that has Whannell talking about creating a more grimy ghost, which he calls the bread and butter of the Insidious films.

Not exact matches

It's here than Wan excels, a sign of his fantastic character work to come in films like Insidious and The Conjuring, with his work both fantastically calculated and seemingly chaotic.

It is very rare for a third film (especially in the horror genre) to surpass it's predecessors, and while «Insidious: Chapter 3» doesn't quite capture the brilliant atmosphere created in James Wan's original, it definitely is a step above his first sequel.

The Film District horror film «Insidious 2» brought in $ 2 million and is looking at sixth place and a roughly $ 6 million third week.

MG: «Insidious» is easily one of the best horror scores in recent years; how do you approach a score when you are working with the film?

And Insidious: The Last Key will surely jump scare the holiday hangover right out of you, as this new clip from the film promises.

THE CONJURING The director James Wan («Saw,» «Insidious») continues to scramble up the genre ladder with a classically paced horror film about a husband - and - wife team of paranormal investigators (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) who meet a particular challenge at a Connecticut farmhouse.

Reprising their roles, Oscar nominee Vera Farmiga («Up In the Air,» TV's «Bates Motel») and Patrick Wilson (the «Insidious» films), star as Lorraine and Ed Warren, who, in one of their most terrifying paranormal investigations, travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.

For those fans who can get enough of the «Insidious» films, and judging by the box - office of the sequel last weekend there a lot of you, FilmDistrict has launched a prequel webseries.The series follows paranormal investigators Specs (Leigh Whannell)...

From James Wan, director of Saw, Insidious and Dead Silence, the film stars Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Ron Livingston, Lili Taylor, Joey King, Shanley Caswell, Haley McFarland, Mackenzie Foy, Kyla Deaver and Sterling Jerins.

By contrast, every single «chills over kills» horror film on the list is generally regarded as either an outright blockbuster (Paranormal Activity 1 and 2), a hit relative to its budget and marketing visibility (Insidious, The Last Exorcism) or a minor success (Devil, which grossed over three times its $ 10 million budget domestically).

The Insidious franchise — like most horror series — began missing a step about two films in.

He's made three nearly identical films back to back — Insidious, The Conjuring, Insidious: Chapter 2.

What «Insidious: Chapter 3» has in common with the two earlier films is The Further, a netherworld of lost souls, and a place into which humans, illogically, can wander willy - nilly.

Steven Schneider, whose credits include the horror films WER, Insidious and Paranormal Activity, is producing with Jeff Rice (Lone Survivor), Lati Grobman (The Iceman) and Erik Olsen (The Book of Eli).

(As is the insidious hitch with crowdfunding, supporters didn't receive any financial stake in the film; only «perks» like tickets and merchandise.)

The other recently announced event at Halloween Horror Nights is «Insidious: Return to the Further,» which is based on the hit supernatural horror «Insidious» film trilogy.

The movie is the directing debut of Leigh Whannell, who wrote the previous two «Insidious» films (as well as «Saw»), so he knows how to deliver shocks - even if most of them are the same old «jump scares» of just having something suddenly appear in the frame.

The look and feel of Insidious was something fresh in the genre, with breathe taking shots, and scares that the film earns.

Elise has arguably been the breakout (human) character of the «Insidious» films, and Shaye gives her the kind of elder - statesman glow that Donald Pleasance brought to the «Halloween» series.

Co-directors Tony Mahony and Angus Sampson's The Mule doesn't fall in line with the Saw films or Insidious, but co - writer / co-star Leigh...

But curiously, Whannell (who scripted both prior «Insidious» films, as well as the Wan - directed «Saw» and «Dead Silence») sidelines those amiable folks for much of «Chapter 3,» which takes place «a few years» before the events of the earlier films.

What Insidious: Chapter 3 has in common with the two earlier films is the Further, a netherworld of lost souls, and a place into which humans, illogically, can wander willy - nilly.

In 2013, Director James Wan (Saw, Insidious) released The Conjuring; a movie that I would venture to say is one of the better Horror films of the past decade.

After devoting two films to the bedevilment of the Lambert family — specifically, a spooky old hag that had attached itself to patriarch Josh (Patrick Wilson) from childhood — the «Insidious» series seemed poised to continue on as a series of «Ghostbusters» - style adventures involving the paranormal investigators Specs (Whannell) and Tucker (Angus Sampson) and their mentor Elise (Shaye), who returned to the series in spectral form after dying (at Josh's hands) in the first film.

On one level, the film, written and directed by Leigh Whannell (Saw, Insidious), trots out a very familiar sort of action - hero origin story: Victimized by violent crime in a cyberpunk future, main character Grey Trace (Logan Marshall - Green) vows to hunt down the men who killed his wife.

From the producers of the Paranormal Activity franchise, the film is the next installment in their series following Insidious, and «chronicles an unprecedented biological disaster unleashed from the waters of the Chesapeake Bay - an isopod parasite, carrying a horrific untreatable disease, that jumps from fish to human hosts.

Where one of the strengths of Wan's «Insidious» movies was their plausible family dynamics (including Barbara Hershey's wonderfully meddlesome grandmother), «Chapter 3» so often feels like a second - tier 1980s sitcom that you spend a good deal of the film wondering if Whannell was aiming for parody (like last year's viral short, «Too Many Cooks»).

While none of the «Insidious» films have cost very much, this is the first one that can be said to look cheap, with the flatly lit, washed - out digital cinematography of Brian Pearson a poor substitute for the silky elegance John R. Leonetti brought to the previous films in the series.

As many of us already know, films like Insidious: Chapter 3 are made with the hopes of being fun more than anything else.

For more information on «Insidious: Chapter 3,» visit the horror film's official website.

The film, which stars Academy Award nominee Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air, Bates Motel), Patrick Wilson (Insidious), Ron Livingston (Office Space, Adaptation) and Lili Taylor (Hemlock Grove), will screen in two theaters at the Regal Cinema at L.A. LIVE on June 21, first at 10:00 pm in Regal House 11 and 10:30 pm in Regal House 10 with both screenings followed by a Q&A with Wan.

Director James Wan (Saw) scored a hit with 2011's Insidious, and his sequel (co-written with Saw scribe Leigh Whannel) picks up where the first film left off.

The fourth film in the Insidious franchise was a surprise hit worldwide, proving that the series can still deliver scares when it's focused on Lin Shaye's psychic character.

For those fans who can get enough of the «Insidious» films, and judging by the box - office of the sequel last weekend there a lot of you, FilmDistrict has launched a prequel webseries.

Programmer Colin Geddes tends to launch some big genre films every year, with past festivals premiering films like You're Next, Insidious, The Raid: Redemption and Oculus.

The Conjuring has amassed an impressive amount of hype as a classy horror offering from schlock director James Wan, the new master of scare of the week films Saw, Dead Silence, and Insidious.

Director John R. Leonetti, who was cinematographer on The Conjuring, Insidious and Insidious: Chapter 2, duplicates his work on those films with aplomb.

Following last year's breakout hit The Visit, Shyamalan reunites with producer Jason Blum (The Purge and Insidious series, The Gift) for the thriller being hailed as «Shyamalan's most terrifying film to date.»

Directed by The Taking Of Deborah Logan's Adam Robitel, Insidious: The Last Key is one of the weakest films to come out of Wan's genre factory, reducing the producer's formula of creepy houses, jump scares, and derivative horror imagery to its least interesting essentials.

So that was a trend, and now partially thanks to Insidious and films like Paranormal Activity we've got a trend that definitely relies on jump scares and this adrenaline which I'm not adverse to at all.

«Insidious Entities» (6:32) has Wan, Whannell, and supporting cast members discussing the film's haunting peripheral personalities, with hair, costume, and make - up artists weighing in on their looks.