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Hi,
Insidious 3, then four, five, six...? how far can you go with a franchise, I thought the first one was good, the second so-so, as with all things, it has a shelf life, with each new instalment you have to keep stretching the bounds of probability, and find something new to shock your audience, the difficulty is, it has all been done before, how many times can you use an invisible entity, a hideous red faced demon, toys that come to life, (you get my drift), and this is the problem I have with modern horror movies, they rely too much on visual scares, rather than being more subtle, Hitchcock was the master at suspense horror, Psycho proves the point, how many people believe you actually see Janet Leigh get murdered in the shower, you don't, what you see is her screaming at an unseen intruder, then the classic piercing score plays, and then we see blood gurgling down the drain, and yet, such was the brilliance of the directing, such was the brilliance of building the suspense, we actually believe we see her get murdered, it is that which modern horror needs, I thought the Blair Witch project played brilliantly on what we didn't see, and yet for me it had a real creepy feel to it, a great film, I must say however, my partner had nightmares for days after seeing red face in the first insidious.