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30 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80VarietyScott FoundasVarietyScott FoundasA modestly scaled and highly pleasurable sequel to Wan’s low-budget 2011 smash that should have genre fans begging for thirds.
- 70The DissolveKeith PhippsThe DissolveKeith PhippsThough Wan is stepping away from horror, at least for now, to direct the next The Fast And The Furious sequel, the latest Insidious entry suggests he’s a long way from running out of new tricks, or at least finding infinite variations on old ones.
- 60The TelegraphRobbie CollinThe TelegraphRobbie CollinThe scares are mostly very scary indeed, and that means the film does its job.
- 40New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierNew York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierComes upon a few quirky solutions and movie-ripoff scares before settling into a kind of coma.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterJustin LoweThe Hollywood ReporterJustin LoweSetting aside the movie’s tediously lame dialogue, self-conscious performances and frequently predicable scares, the narrative’s compulsively shifting chronology intermittently manages to engage, although it does little to obscure the distracting shortcomings of both plot and character development.
- 40Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleLos Angeles TimesRobert AbeleThis busy-yet-dull sequel feels like Wan robotically flexing his manipulation of fright-film signposts, an exercise more silly than sinister.
- Why, besides a stellar opening weekend, does this extended narrative exist?
- 25Slant MagazineChris CabinSlant MagazineChris CabinA full realization of the very worst fears one could imagine when its director, James Wan, unexpectedly emerged from the torture-porn murk with its original, spiritedly directed predecessor.
- 20Time Out LondonNigel FloydTime Out LondonNigel FloydFor all but the most forgiving horror fans, this is a lazy, stupid and incoherent failure.
- 20The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisA mess from start to finish — though, judging by the ending, this story won’t be over any time soon — Insidious: Chapter 2 is the kind of lazy, halfhearted product that gives scary movies a bad name.