Insidious Chapter 3: Fear factor up there

Staring: Dermot Mulroney, Stefanie Scott, Angus Sampson, Leigh Whannell, Lin Shaye, Hayley Kiyoko
Rated: 7/10
Insidious it is but not as strongly as 1 & 2 were even though the much haunted Lambert family rests in peace this time.But that does not take away from the yelping spookiness of this one, what with an angelic teenager longing to connect with her dead mother actually draws out the darkest of the dark from Netherland.
Quinn Brenner is haunted and how so eerily at that! The man who cannot breathe gets her, almost kills her in an accident that lays her off from school with broken limbs and a forced bedrest in her room where the spirit is having a free run of drawing every inch of life —and fear — from the poor schoolgirl.
The heebie jeebies are well constructed  into the dim-lit apartment block and its absolutely scary corridors though to say it is the ambience that constructs the fear factor entirely would be too simplistic and untrue.
As Quinn tries to contact her mother, and goes to age-old Insidious series psychic Elise to sort her out, you can already sense the build-up of the bad forces around her. Yet, when the knocks come, the accidents happen, the ceiling cracks and the dirty footsteps appear out of nowhere, you know you are really up against evil — where, how and what is what keeps you hanging in the air and that’s oh so scary, especially when you are seeing a midnight show.
Insidious will do business here though in the very strict sense of any horror film, this one gets a bit lax in parts and you manage to breathe here and there in between all the screams and the shouts, ably  accentuated by screechy out-of-the-blue acoustics. Ram Gopal Verma may love it.
Source: Sunday Pioneer, 28, June 2015

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