Insidious Chapter 2 Essay

With over 15 million views and a budget of $5,000,000, Insidious Chapter Two is a sequel to the horrifying Insidious Chapter One. Insidious Chapter 2 has been awarded the Fright Meter Award after being released in 2013, where it became the most popular and nominated horror film to be seen by audiences. The director, James Wan, presents an intriguing point of view about the horrifying supernatural world through the perspective of the Lambert family. With the careful selection of cinematography, semiotics and sounds/special effects, Wan was able to communicate a theme of family crisis leading to a loss of identity.

In the chosen excerpt, Josh, Elise and Carl is in “The Further,” trying to erase the entity possessing Josh’s body in the physical world. However, in order to remove this demon from Josh’s body, the trio had to find Parker’s childhood memories and set him

These aspects, such as Parker’s clothing and Parker’s mother’s makeup and costume contributes to setting the atmosphere of the theme. In the extract it starts off with Parker being dressed up in a pink flowered cream dress with two blonde plaits and pink bows tied to each end of while Parker’s mother, was wearing a long, silk pale blue dress. The setting of the excerpt can be identified through the style of the dresses and how Parker did not refuse to wear it, as kids back in the olden days did not retaliate or defy their parents’ wishes. Throughout the excerpt Parker’s mother’s makeup can be referred to be intimidating as the dark red lips symbolises empowerment as she has a large amount of power over Parker, demanding him to do things that only she requests. On the other hand her eyebrows are raised and dark, Wan has used this physical feature to demonstrate the disapproval she has of Parker’s true identity. Therefore, Wan has used these techniques to demonstrate the loss of identity within a family