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[quote name="fabio"](Which is still half the number of times Insidious is mentioned as a great horror movie) Reading Somethingawful staffers trying to wax inner film critic has always been a spectacle of jeep levels of wrongness. These are the guys who couldn't stop writing what an intensely deep character study <i>Dredd</i> was. I'm too lazy to hunt down their original Insidious review, but here's a recent mention. [quote]<b>Good horror requires the exploration of the unknown in both form and content.</b> Every successful horror film does something new with the genre or reinvents the old. Films as recent as Insidious, which turned Poltergeist on its head, or Drag Me to Hell, which rekindled the possession film with an unerring pace and a darkly comedic riff on body horror, have done miracles in making the classic seem fresh. After all, there's an admittedly small variety of horror tropes, which the great films reconfigure. Once a horror film sacrifices the element of surprise. <b> Great horror is rarely recognized in its time.</b> See: The Thing '82, The Shining, Night of the Living Dead, Insidious, Insidious, INSIDIOUS. <b>The Hollywood system is far from ideal for honoring the third premise because the suits fear the fourth.</b> Every great horror film of the last few years was made outside of the studio system, except for Black Swan and Shutter Island, both of which were made by directors with a proven track record and relative autonomy.[/quote] Insidious(x4) and Shutter Island: great horror <a href="http://www.somethingawful.com/d/current-movie-reviews/last-stand.php?page=3">http://www.somethingawful.com/d/current-movie-reviews/last-stand.php?page=3</a>[/quote]