INSIDIOUS, PG-13 ( 1 hr & 42 min )

where:  CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when:  Monday, April 4th, 2011
show:  10:30 p.m.
costs:  $9.75 Ticket + $4.50 Pretzel Bites + $4.50 20 fl. oz. VitaminWater Focus = $18.75
auditorium:  13
seat:  5th row, 8th column

synopsis/overview:  Little "Justin Beiber" has a really "Bad Hair" day!

A desperate couple fights to keep some bad ghosts and evil spirits away from their comatose child. 
 

noteworthy scenes:  1.) "You're old now"; 2.) Books on floor; 3.) Attic door; 4.) The attic; 5.) Coma; 6.) Feeding tube; 7.) Baby monitor; 8.) "I don't like when he walks around at night"; 9.) Baby's room window; 10.)  Front door; 11.) Hand print; 12.) "I'm scared"; 13.) Dancing kid; 14.)  The comatose boy's room; 15.) "This thing from the other house has followed us here"; 16.) Dream; 17.) "I know someone who can help"; 18.) Paranormal investigators; 19.) The sketch; 20.) "It's not the house that's haunted, it's your son"; 21.)The Further; 22.) Drawings; 23.) Seance; 24.) Frame by frame; 25.) "The reason that I know her so well"; 26.) Old hag; 27.) A parasite; 28.) "Out-of-Body Experience"; 29.) "He's in"; 30.) "Haunted house"; 31.) Red door; 32.) "He needs to find us"; 33.) "They're crossing into our world"; 34.) "Words are worth a thousand words, too"; 35.) "Why"; 36.) The photo; and 37.) "I'm right here."

audience reaction:  The audience reacted well to a couple of  fright scenes.

recommendation:  Save your money and wait for this to come out as a rental.

spoiler alert!  I hope that they didn't hire professional musicians--or even amateur ones, for that  matter--to do the musical score for this movie.  Talk about really bad music!  It all sounded like it was played by a tone-deaf, sheet-music illiterate monkey orchestra.  Why didn't they show the little boy walking around at night even though it was implied that he could?  If you have a security system installed at your residence, the first thing that happens when the security is breached is that the telephone will ring because a security personnel will want to know whether or not it is just a false alarm.  And if you don't answer the 'phone within a specified time, the security personnel will alert the local police of a possible break-in at your place--something that the scriptwriter and/or the movie director forgot about.  So, Mr. Teacher Guy calls his wife and tells her that he has to stay after school and work on grading test papers each and every night--boy! I would love to have a dumb, clueless wife like that.  Where can I get one?  I'm sorry to have to say this but ... Astral Projection has its own built-in safeguards, based on my experiences, both good and bad.  A simple touch, sound, movement and/or smell is enough to return your soul to your body.  The feeling of  fear will do it, too, but your soul doesn't return to your body as fast this way.  I remember having a wonderful Astral Projection experience one night when, all of a sudden, my brother ( who slept in the same bedroom with me ) let out a loud, stinky fart in his sleep!  That was enough to send me back to my body.  I cussed and swore at him through clenched teeth for ruining my Astral Projection and for keeping me awake through all that stench.  Of course, there were also times when I had really bad encounters that I was able to get out of simply because my brother said something in his sleep ( he was a sleep-talker and a sleep-walker, too ) or simply because he farted in his sleep!  Gas masks at a seance! why, did somebody fart ...?  Shouldn't that psychic have known way back when that her earlier effort with one of the victims didn't really work?  The problem with a low-budget movie such as this is that their SFX either sucks or is non-existent at all; here's a case in point:  Based on my personal experiences with Astral Projection, a soul travels usually by either floating or flying from one place to another.  In other words, they didn't have to climb the stairs; and they didn't have to open the doors since they could easily pass through solid objects--one of the pluses of  Astral Projection.

fyi:  The town of Benicia, CA, actually has its own paranormal ( "ghostbuster" ) investigator, Lewis Nowosad of  Gryphon Paranormal.  He does it as a hobby.  And he also happens to be a musician in a band, Junkyard Academy, with some  stuff available for viewing on YouTube.  Check him/it out.

Many years ago, before I could afford to buy a "ghetto blaster" to take to work, I would sing to myself just to pass the time away.  One time, my supervisor caught me singing to myself and he remarked that I sounded like Tiny Tim singing, Tiptoe Through The Tulips.  I finally heard this song as sung by Tiny Tim, himself, in this movie, and I don't think that my supervisor  was paying me any kind of  compliment at all!

I was about 17 years old when I first had an out-of-body experience ( o.o.b.e.), a.k.a. Astral Projection.  And I have had hundreds of them, mostly unplanned, up until just a few years ago.  But I gradually lost the ability to astral-project because I've been doing Alpha brainwave sound meditation for the last eight years.  Astral projection occurs while a person is in the Theta brainwave stage, just below the Alpha range.  I will need to train myself to get back down to Theta if I want to astral-project again.

word of advice:  Ignorance is bliss.

tidbits:  I was in my car on my lunch break today, doing my Zhunti ( a.k.a. Million or Enlightenment ) Mantra.  My car was parked in a shade less than a hundred yards away from the Benicia Fire Department.  Their dispatcher alerted them ( over their loud speaker ) of an emergency situation at the local high school where a 14-year old female fell unconscious.  As soon as I heard the emergency call, I looked at my watch to time the firemen's response.  They were on their way in one minute and two seconds flat!  Talk about quick.

A minute and a half after the emergency call, an ambulance sped by on its way to the high school, too.   I wonder if  other towns and cities have a comparable emergency response time to that of  Benicia, CA.

As I was paying for my purchase at the theatre's concession counter, the cashier remarked that the prices have gone up.  I told him that the prices always do each year around Springtime.  And I added that eventually it might even cost a hundred bucks just to see a movie.  It if ever gets to that, I'll just buy a large screen computer and watch all of the new movies on movie2k.com!