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Insidious - in which Patrick Wilson is not playing Ed Warren, and I have to adjust. So, as with most haunted house movies, this begins with a nice family moving into a new home, and then some weird stuff starts happening. They let it go on longer than I might, and then their oldest son, who's like 8, falls in the creepy attic that lured him in, and he goes into a non-coma, and he can't wake up. Everyone is understandably upset. Then, some crazy shit starts happening, all in one night, Rose sees a whole ghost man in the baby's room, and Patrick hears the alarm go off and see the door flung open several times in one night. It's really bad. And then, like geniuses, in the next scene, they move! However, they are too late, and they continue to be haunted, so they call some experts, as referred by Patrick's mom. Elise is the psychic's name, and she is awesome, and she has two nerds who work for her, and they come with her to help her scout out the house. She quickly diagnoses the boy, Dalton, as being in a spiritual coma, as in, he was astral projecting, and got lost, maybe in a maze someone trapped him in, and he couldn't get back to his body. Turns out, some crazy red-faced tailor puppet-master demon is keeping his locked up, but we don't know that until they find him. Elise reveals that, as a boy Patrick had the same ability, and some mean lady ghost kept haunting him, trying to hop in while he was out-of-body, so they shut down his ability - but now he has to do it again! To save his son! And he does, what a relief. BUT, while Dalton is fine, Patrick does not come back normal, and he kills nice Elise, because he is really that mean lady ghost! End of movie.

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