Review by plummetingparadise

It's truly amazing that a film with the budget this one has can be built upon a script that is so fundamentally bad. For me a huge part of what makes a scary story is a well developed or thought-provoking monster. This film treats its main source of fear as a complete and total afterthought with little to no explanation of what it is or where it came from or why we should be afraid, even the image of the monster looks like a halloween costume someone put together at the last moment. The first insidious was mostly decent because there was a story behind the monster, and it was a pretty decent story. This movie almost feels like it's preparing us for movies written by AI - it's got all the ornaments of a horror film, but none of the substance, the story that actually makes it scary.