★★☆☆☆ James Wan certainly knows his way round a haunted house. Behind the camera, he's the de facto ghost in the closet: pulling the strings of our discomfort, trespassing from within, turning the reassuring, nurturing properties of what we identify with as home into a baleful, alienating spectacle. He showed this kind of familiarity with the genre in this year's The Conjuring, a thrilling Amityville Horror-like yarn that made the oldest tricks in the book somehow bold and refreshing. Sadly, his latest film, Insidious: Chapter 2, is a sharp reminder of the fine line horror directors tread between emphatic scares and dismal failure.
The returning Patrick Wilson, who was perfectly cast somewhere between saviour and lunatic in The Conjuring, is altogether less convincing here as the haunted John Lambert, who seeks refuge with his wife (Rose Byrne) after the traumatic events of the original Insidious (2010). Their son Dalton (Ty Simpkins) remains...
The returning Patrick Wilson, who was perfectly cast somewhere between saviour and lunatic in The Conjuring, is altogether less convincing here as the haunted John Lambert, who seeks refuge with his wife (Rose Byrne) after the traumatic events of the original Insidious (2010). Their son Dalton (Ty Simpkins) remains...
- 9/17/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Here Media is rebranding Regent Releasing, its film acquisition and distribution division, as Here Films.
Here will release 8-12 films per year, including several recent acquisitions that will be released in 2010. Xavier Dolan's "I Killed My Mother" (J'ai tue ma mere) and Asghar Farhadi's "About Elly" (Darbareye Elly) are both hot off the festival circuit. The lineup also include's Kenneth Branagh's "The Magic Flute."
Regent's current staff, led by executive vp Mark Reinhart, is being folded into the parent company. The distribution team also includes John Lambert, senior vp theatrical distribution; Liz Mackiewicz, senior vp sales and distribution; and Jonathon Aubry, vp marketing and distribution.
The Here Films staff will oversee remaining Regent releases through 2009, and new films being released through the Here Films banner.
Here Media encompasses motion picture company Here Studios; the premium cabler Here! Networks, aimed at gay and lesbian audiences; print outlets like the Advocate,...
Here will release 8-12 films per year, including several recent acquisitions that will be released in 2010. Xavier Dolan's "I Killed My Mother" (J'ai tue ma mere) and Asghar Farhadi's "About Elly" (Darbareye Elly) are both hot off the festival circuit. The lineup also include's Kenneth Branagh's "The Magic Flute."
Regent's current staff, led by executive vp Mark Reinhart, is being folded into the parent company. The distribution team also includes John Lambert, senior vp theatrical distribution; Liz Mackiewicz, senior vp sales and distribution; and Jonathon Aubry, vp marketing and distribution.
The Here Films staff will oversee remaining Regent releases through 2009, and new films being released through the Here Films banner.
Here Media encompasses motion picture company Here Studios; the premium cabler Here! Networks, aimed at gay and lesbian audiences; print outlets like the Advocate,...
- 6/29/2009
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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