Insidious

Insidious is one of those films that is good, but could have been so much better. It does, however, have one of the scariest scenes in a horror movie I've ever seen.

Summary:
A family moves into their new house, when one of their children gets hurt and falls into a coma. Weird things start happening around the house: voices being heard over the baby monitor, a face seen through the veil over the baby's crib, the house alarm going off when nobody's there. Unable to take it anymore, the family brings in a psychic who helps guide the father into bringing his son's soul back.

Review:
There are several good things and several bad things about this film.
One good thing I can say about this movie, is that it features astral projection, which I haven't often seen in horror films. Another good thing, is that it has one of the scariest scenes I have seen in a film. In one of the scenes, a mother is talking to her son about her nightmare, it then cuts to him listening to her, while the demon is behind him (the picture above). This scare, however, was featured in the trailer, and because of that, lost some of its 'surprisability.'
One bad thing is the use of the Further, which is the place that the son's and father's souls go to when they leave their body. It was really dark and hard to see much of anything in the Further, which I hate in movies. Another bad thing, is the amount of the red-faced demon shown. The first time that the demon appears (the picture above), you only see his face for a second. Since you don't really get a good glimpse of him, he seems terrifying. Later on in the film, however, you see too much of him. Although it's quick, you get to see his whole body. For me, this ruined his scariness. If you show too much of something that's supposed to be scary, it probably won't be scary. I think it would have been better, if you're never able to see him clearly, maybe only quick blurs of his body moving around, or shots of parts of his face. Since his eyes and his mouth are scary, the filmmakers could have really focused more on those parts. In the nightmare scene in the previous paragraph, it showed the demon's arm growing to reach the boy. The filmmakers could have made the demon's body long and slender, so he'd move and twist around in unnatural ways that would've made it creepier. For example, in Nightmare Before Christmas, there's one scene that I find disturbing. When Jack Skellington first finds Christmasland, there's one scene where he crawls through the window into the room of the sleeping elves (resembling a long-limbed spider). If the red-faced demon in Insidious quickly crawled around the floors/walls like that, I think that could've been really creepy.