CREAKING house? Check. Creepy old ghostly woman? Check. Sinister score? Check.
Insidious gives the well-worn haunted house premise a spine-tingling shake-up in this classic-toned horror.
Director James Wan dolls out the boo-scares and jumps, with enough unquestionably creepy moments (misbehaving baby-monitors and demonic clawed creatures a particular highlight) to keep on edge.
But despite shunning docu-style structure in favour of a vintage aesthetic (akin to 2009's Drag Me To Hell without the chuckles), once the mystery of the supernatural elements are disclosed, it soon loses its chills.
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Insidious is out on DVD and BluRay on September 12.