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Here's the plot: 'Soon after their showdown with evil spirits that possessed their son, the Lamberts, Renai (Rose Byrne) and Josh (Patrick Wilson), are ready for their lives to return to normal. However, something still is seriously off, especially with Josh, who - unbeknown to Renai - is possessed too. In order to free Josh's soul and finally defeat the malevolent forces around them, Lorraine Lambert (Barbara Hershey) and her ghost-hunting friends investigate the past to save her family's future.' 'Insidious: Chapter 2' is currently available to rent, purchase, or stream via subscription on VUDU, Amazon.com, iTunes Store, and YouTube.
Running time 106 minutes Country United States Language English Budget $5 million Box office $161.9 million Insidious: Chapter 2 is a 2013 American directed. It is a to, the second installment in the, and the fourth in terms of the series' in-story chronology. The film stars and reprising their roles as Josh and Renai Lambert, a husband and wife who seek to uncover the secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world. The film was released September 13, 2013. A film, was released on June 5, 2015.
Contents. Plot In 1986, Lorraine Lambert summons Elise Rainier to help her son Josh, who is being followed by the spirit of an old woman.
After investigating the house and encountering, Elise tells Lorraine that they must suppress Josh's abilities for his own safety. Twenty-five years later, Renai Lambert is under questioning about the. She is warned that if her husband Josh's fingerprints are found at the crime scene, he will be prosecuted for Elise's murder. The Lambert family relocate to Lorraine's house as the investigation continues.
Renai and the others begin to experience strange, seemingly paranormal activity in the house. Specs and Tucker visit Elise's house and discover a videotape of the 1986 investigation. Upon reviewing it, they find someone standing behind Josh in the video. The next morning, Dalton tells Renai that he has been having bad dreams involving a woman in a white dress; as well as hearing Josh talk to an unseen figure in the hallway. Renai receives a call from the police stating that the fingerprints do not match Josh. The woman in the white dress appears and attacks Renai. Josh hears a voice urging him to kill his family.
Lorraine visits Specs and Tucker and they show her the tape, enhanced to show an adult Josh as the figure standing behind the young Josh. They contact Elise's former colleague Carl, who attempts to contact Elise's spirit. They are told to find answers at an abandoned hospital where Lorraine used to work as a doctor. Upon arriving, Lorraine recounts the story of a patient named Parker Crane who was admitted for trying to castrate himself. Two days later, Lorraine saw Parker in an elevator. When Lorraine asked a nurse why Parker was out of his bed, the nurse explained that he had the day before.
Lorraine and the group go to the Crane family home where they find a secret room. Inside they discover numerous corpses, a black wedding gown and newspaper clippings revealing Parker to be a killer referred to as 'The Bride in Black' - who kidnapped and murdered young women while dressed as a woman himself.
Josh's body begins to slowly deteriorate and Renai realizes he is possessed. Lorraine insists that they all get away from Josh. Carl arrives to drug him, accompanied by Specs and Tucker, but Josh manages to subdue all three. Carl awakes in the spirit realm of 'The Further', where he meets the spirit of the real Josh.
Josh travels to his daughter Cali's room in 'The Further', where an evil spirit is approaching her. He struggles with the spirit but is overpowered. Elise's spirit arrives and banishes the spirit from the house.
It is revealed that these actions are what triggered some of the mysterious events in the first film, as time moves in the Further. In the real world, Josh, who is possessed by Parker, ambushes Lorraine and Renai, locking Lorraine in a closet.
Renai and the children escape to the basement. Dalton voluntarily enters The Further to help his father. In The Further, Josh, Carl, and Elise try to track Parker down by revisiting Josh in 1986, with the young Josh showing the adult Josh where to find him. In Parker's house, the three witness Parker's mother, Michelle – the woman in the white dress – abusing him for acting like a male; and forcing him to dress and act like a girl. Parker had killed his female victims at the behest of his mother's spirit. Upon finding Michelle, she and Josh fight.
Elise saves Josh and appears to destroy Michelle's spirit, which stops the possessed Josh from murdering his family in the real world. Parker's ghost disappears. Carl and Josh escape, only to find Dalton, who leads them back to the living world, allowing Josh to finally regain control of his body. The Lambert family is finally reunited, with Josh and Dalton allowing themselves to once again have their memories suppressed by Carl. Some time later, Specs and Tucker arrive at the house of a family whose daughter, Allison, is in an unexplained coma. Unbeknownst to them, Elise's spirit enters.
She hears a crackling sound and gasps as she sees something standing in the shadows. It's a direct continuation from the end of the first film, so it's the same characters, same actors coming back.
But where the first movie plays like a classic haunted house film, the second one plays more like a domestic thriller with supernatural elements to it. —Wan, on the shift in genre After the financial success of In April 2011, discussions for a sequel soon followed. With producer insisting on the return of director and screenwriter, a treatment script did not arrive until nearly a year later. 'As long as there was a chance that James and Leigh were gonna write the second movie and direct the second movie, I didn't want to do it with someone else,' said Blum. 'They kept saying they might do it, they might not do it, which was why there's quite a bit of time between the two movies.'
On February 2, 2012, it was announced that director and screenwriter were in talks to return for the sequel. While promoting (2013) at in October 2012, Wan described how he and Whannell were working closely on developing the story and the script for the follow up to Insidious, explaining to, 'I think the sequel to Insidious is kind of my reaction to where for my own reason I wasn't as involved in the sequels, and so I felt with Insidious, think it would be good to shepherd it and keep it more in track to the version I had when I made the first film so that it doesn't detour too far.' The film was titled Insidious: Chapter 2 because it is a direct continuation of the first installment. However, the tone of the film was to be more grounded than in the first film, with Wan citing his work on The Conjuring as an influence to how he and Whannell approached Insidious: Chapter 2. 'I pulled things from Insidious that I applied to The Conjuring, and what I learned from The Conjuring I applied to Insidious 2,' said Wan.
'So for me, I feel like it's a cumulative filmmaking experience that I've gathered over the years.' Casting On November 19, 2012, it was officially announced that, and would reprise their roles from the first film. The following month, it was announced that would also be returning. In February 2013, and Lindsay Seim rounded out the cast as younger versions of Hershey and Shaye's characters, respectively. It was also confirmed that the film's screenwriter and actor would reprise their roles as Specs and Tucker, respectively. When asked about the return of the two characters, Whannell explained, 'There was this hatred that spewed out from fans saying 'I hated those guys! They ruined the movie!'
So there will probably be a lot of people out there who will be disappointed to hear that the Specs and Tucker characters will be coming back.' Filming for Insidious: Chapter 2 began on January 15, 2013, in Los Angeles. Having a slightly higher production budget than its predecessor, the film was captured over the course of 25 shooting days. A bulk of the film was shot at a house in, which served as the location of Lorraine Lambert's house. Another location used for filming was the former, which was redressed as a hospital setting and used for the construction of interior sets (including recreations of sets from the first film). 'I've never shot in Linda Vista,' said Wan about the location. 'It's kind of funny because Leigh and I have always heard so much about it.
For research on the first one Leigh came here to do a bit of ghost-hunting. And I think a lot of that inspired us when we needed a hospital set.' Music The to Insidious: Chapter 2 is composed by, who previously collaborated with director on the first installment as well as The Conjuring.
'Finding the right range and tone for the feeling is an important part,' described Bishara on generating tension through sound. 'James is very particular with sting placement along with Kirk, our editor on both Insidious films and Conjuring.
Silence can create a listening space, where rather than give you something else to listen to it enables you to hear things.' A soundtrack album for the film was released digitally on September 15 and in physical forms on October 8, 2013 by Void Recordings.
Additional songs featured in the film include:. 'Waiting For You' by Alan Ett. ' by Distribution Marketing Prior to being officially announced, registered various on November 28, 2011, for Insidious: Chapter 2. On January 30, 2013, the first picture from the set of the film was released via writer 's account. Additional behind-the-scenes photos from the set of the film were released the following month. In April 2013, the first promotional poster for the film went on display at in. The first theatrical trailer for the film was screened to a live audience on location at the Linda Vista Community Hospital on June 4, 2013, with an online release the following day.
On August 10, 2013, it was announced at the convention Scare L.A by producer Jason Blum and Universal's creative director John Murdy, that a maze attraction entitled 'Insidious: Into the Further' will be featured at the 2013 at. Theatrical release While originally intended to be released on August 30, 2013, Insidious: Chapter 2 was rescheduled for a September 20 release date. The film's release date was later moved again to September 13, 2013.
On the night prior to its theatrical wide release, the film was shown in select theatres as part of a double feature with the. A for the film was held in on September 10, 2013.
Release Box office Preliminary reports had the film tracking for a $32–$35 million debut in North America. The film earned $1.5 million from its Thursday night showings, and reached a $20 million Friday total, making it the biggest opening day in September box office history.
It went on to be the number one film during its opening weekend, taking $41 million at the box office. The film grossed a worldwide total of $161,919,318 against a budget of $5 million. Critical response Review aggregate sampled 111 reviews and judged 39% of the reviews to be positive.
The site's consensus reads: ' Insidious: Chapter 2 is decidedly short on the tension and surprises that made its predecessor so chilling.' , another review aggregator, assigned the film a weighted average score of 40 out of 100 based on 30 reviews from mainstream critics, indicating 'mixed or average reviews'. Of gave the film a positive review, stating that 'the scares are mostly very scary indeed, and that means the film does its job.' Scott Foundas of praised the 'artfully eerie' cinematography work of and the 'pervasively unsettling atmosphere' constructed by sound designer and editor Joe Dzuban. Foundas further wrote that 'where so many sequels seem like mere remakes of their predecessors, with bigger budgets and less imagination, Insidious: Chapter 2 feels like a genuine continuation of characters we enjoyed getting to know the first time around, and wouldn't at all mind returning to again.' Conversely, Robert Abele of the commented, 'After the pleasurable free fall into old-fashioned nightmare artistry that was last summer's The Conjuring, this busy-yet-dull sequel feels like Wan robotically flexing his manipulation of fright-film signposts, an exercise more silly than sinister.' Justin Lowe of wrote, 'Setting aside the movie's tediously lame dialogue, self-conscious performances and frequently predictable scares, the narrative's compulsively shifting chronology intermittently manages to engage, although it does little to obscure the distracting shortcomings of both plot and character development.'
Home media The film was released on Blu-ray and DVD on December 10, 2013. Main article: On September 16, 2013, a third film in the series was announced with signed on to return as writer while and are also set to produce. When asked about returning for another sequel, actor went on to say that he 'doesn't know where else it could go', and that 'Josh Lambert has been through the wringer, and I think the movie sets it up well at the end.
And that's great, that's how it should end.' On March 11, 2014, it was reported that the third film wouldn't focus on the Lambert family, but would focus on a new family and story, that it wouldn't connect to the last teaser scene in the second film, and that Whannell and Sampson wouldn't return as ghost hunters Specs and Tucker. On May 7, 2014, Wan tweeted that Whannell would be directing the third film, which would mark his directorial debut. And starred in the film. And released the follow-up on June 5, 2015. See also.
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