What’s Aged the Best?
The score; the creepy house; Patrick Wilson's horror résumé; Barbara Hershey's creepiness; Rose Byrne's performance; what they did with the budget; the word Insidious
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- The music is one answer: they crushed the score.
- The house is rated an eight and a half as a creepy house against a 10 for the Amityville Horror house, whose lit attic windows look like eyes.
- Patrick Wilson's horror IMDb (three Insidious films, two Conjurings, Annabelle Comes Home, The Nun, Lakeview Terrace, Young Adult) makes him an underappreciated Scream King or "horror daddy" to Jamie Lee Curtis's Scream Queen.
- Barbara Hershey has something inherently creepy and grave about her, as in The Natural as the lady in black and even in Beaches.
- Rose Byrne is utterly believable from the start, working on her songs, which makes you care about her.
- What they squeezed out of such a small budget is both an aged-best and aged-worst point.
- Insidious is a great word, added as a forgotten aged-best point.