After the financial success of Insidious, discussions for a sequel soon followed. With producer Jason Blum insisted that Wan and Whannell return to direct and pen the sequel. In early February 2012, it was announced that Wan and Whannell were in talks to return for the sequel. In October 2012, while promoting The Conjuring (2013) at New York Comic Con, Wan described how he and Whannell were working closely on developing the story and the script for the follow up to Insidious. By late January 2013, it was announced that Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Ty Simpkins, Lin Shaye, Barbara Hershey, Angus Sampson, and Whannell returned to reprise their roles. At the same time, with a budget of $5 million, principal photography commenced, and wrapped in early March. Filming took place throughout Los Angeles, California.
The film stars Wilson, Byrne, Simpkins, Shaye, Hershey, Sampson, and Whannell. The cast once again played the hell out of their characters, and gave committed performances. You always get the sense that the Lamberts are being targeted by something that is truly out of their control, and that's the biggest scare of all.
Insidious: Chapter 2 can't help but lose a bit of its predecessor's chilly sting through familiarity, but what remains is still a superior ghost story told with spine-tingling skill. Three years after its predecessor rattled the multiplex with old-school horror, director James Wan ups the ante with a solid sequel. However, on one level, the sequel is just a not-bad megaplex funhouse movie, no more and no less, but on another level it offers its potential fans a helping of reassurance to go along with the fear. If there are ghost demons out there, then God must be out there as well. Audiences, it was long ago proven, will pay to see both. There are some solid scares, Wan is too gifted in the dark art of gotcha manipulation to not make you leap a few times, but there's nothing on par with the first film's brilliant jump scare with Barbara Hershey. Frightening rarely strikes twice in the same place, despite the efforts of so many horror sequels, but even if the sequel doesn't deliver the delightful jolts of its predecessor, it maintains a consistent chill throughout, with a slow and steady dread that creeps up on you over time. If you're a general wide-audience for horror movies, you should see this one over almost any other release. This should set a standard for how studio horror movies are made.
Insidious: Chapter 2 can't help but lose a bit of its predecessor's chilly sting through familiarity, but what remains is still a superior ghost story told with spine-tingling skill. Three years after its predecessor rattled the multiplex with old-school horror, director James Wan ups the ante with a solid sequel. However, on one level, the sequel is just a not-bad megaplex funhouse movie, no more and no less, but on another level it offers its potential fans a helping of reassurance to go along with the fear. If there are ghost demons out there, then God must be out there as well. Audiences, it was long ago proven, will pay to see both. There are some solid scares, Wan is too gifted in the dark art of gotcha manipulation to not make you leap a few times, but there's nothing on par with the first film's brilliant jump scare with Barbara Hershey. Frightening rarely strikes twice in the same place, despite the efforts of so many horror sequels, but even if the sequel doesn't deliver the delightful jolts of its predecessor, it maintains a consistent chill throughout, with a slow and steady dread that creeps up on you over time. If you're a general wide-audience for horror movies, you should see this one over almost any other release. This should set a standard for how studio horror movies are made.
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