James Wan's Streak Of Horror Films

James Wan, director of Saw (2004) and The Conjuring (2013), continued his streak of horror films by bringing us horror fans Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013), the sequel to Insidious (2010). In the first film, we are introduced to the Lambert family. Dalton Lambert (Ty Simpkins), the son of Josh (Patrick Wilson) and Renai (Rose Byrne) had an accident and fell into a comatose state for three months. Medical science could not explain Dalton’s state, so Josh’s mother, Lorraine (Barbara Hershey) suggested getting help from a friend named Elise Rainer (Lin Shaye) and her two partners Specs (Leigh Whannell) and Tucker (Angus Sampson). Elise arrived to the Lambert home and automatically sensed a sinister presence. She explained to the family how Dalton is not in a coma, he was born with the ability to mentally travel to another dimension. He traveled too far this time and got trapped into a spirit world called ‘The Further’ by a red and black faced demon who intended to possess his soul. Elise informed the Lamberts that Dalton wasn’t the only one with the ability to enter ‘The Further.’ It seemed that Josh was haunted by a demon in his childhood, but his mother had Elise hypnotize him to forget. Elise declares that

I think Wan wanted to make Josh character’s similar to Jack Torrence from Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. Josh flashed a menacing smile like Jacks, and in one scene of the film, Josh is in the bathroom struggling to make the voice of the demon in his head go away. The voice says “You need to kill the others, it’s the only way to stay alive.” Josh went a little insane and he started to trash the bathroom and said “Shut up, get out of here, get out of my head.” The actors did an amazing performance especially Patrick Wilson. His character, Josh, is trying to protect his family, while the part that overtook his soul doesn’t want him to at the same