Insidious The Rewatchables
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Insidious

Most Rewatchable Scene

Gas mask séance scene

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  • The first listed scene is the kid falling off the ladder in the attic, which sets everything up; the attic works because of its high ceiling, trickling light and a ladder to another level, and the furnace is in the attic too.
  • A childhood attic is likened to the Raiders of the Lost Ark warehouse, and a family once heard running noises in their attic that the kids hoped was a ghost; an exterminator found rats that came up the ivy.
  • The Conjuring is a basement, East Coast movie while this is an attic, West Coast movie; creaky craftsman houses, also used well in Mike Flanagan's second Ouija movie, are underused in haunted house films.
  • The first evil baby monitor scene is next; a baby monitor that is always on and suddenly carries a strange voice works every time.
  • After the move, figures seen in and dancing through the new house in broad daylight, with the Tiny Tim needle drop, make the family realize the thing followed them; daylight can be scarier than 3 a.m.
  • The idea that the people, not the house, are haunted answers the usual question of why a family does not just move.
  • The revelation "it's not the house that's haunted, it's your son" is an always-great swerve.
  • The gas mask scene follows, then the face licker showing up when all hell breaks loose; her old-school analog ghost-detecting equipment, shared with Specs and Tucker, is loved.
  • The ghost figures noticed in the photographs is another listed scene, and Patrick Wilson saving his son is the last.
  • Favorite scene is the séance with the gas mask, with a shout-out to Rose Byrne uncovering the handprint on the sheets, which starts as worry that he is bleeding. — Chris Ryan
  • Two Barbara Hershey scenes matter; the kitchen-table scene brings the first demon reveal crouched behind Patrick Wilson, remembered as one of the scariest scenes seen in a theater, with a spilled Coke.
  • The whole gas mask scene with the face licker and the translating of what the spirits say is named as a favorite: "I'm going with that."