Insidious film analysis - horror project

From the moment that Dalton, the young boy enters the attic, things begin to change for the worse. The attic has a very dark, dusty look to it which automatically makes it look haunted and creepy. As Dalton walks around their new family house, he hears a noise appear from the attic, that grabs his attention straight away and goes to 'investigate', just as a typical young boy would. As he enters the attic, he steps onto a step ladder to turn on the light switch, as he goes to pull the cord, he falls off the ladder as the steps breaks. The following scene after that is shown on the picture above; it is a over the shoulder, long-shot of Dalton's parents watching him through a hospital window. Dalton is lying on a hospital bed with a oxygen mask around his face, automatically making the audience believe that something is more than wrong than a bang on his head. Over this shot, there is dialog from Dalton's mum talking to his dad saying, "He's not in a coma, they don't know what to call it!." This makes the audience feel uneasy and begin to get comfy in the chairs as the story goes on.

This scene is shown once the family are back home after the incident with Dalton, he is currently still in what they must call a 'coma'. As Dalton arrives back home, they build a mini hospital in his bedroom so that the doctors are able to come regularly and check up on him. But nothing is the same again... strange things begin to occur around the house. This scene shows a medium shot of Dalton's mum walking into a room to stop a wooden rocking horse that happen to start rocking by itself; at the same time the pace of the film begins to get faster, creating the affect that something is going to happen. The background of this scene is rather dark, creating a lighter effect around the mum's hand around the rocking horse, stopping it from moving. This creates attention to be drawn towards that only in the room. Suddenly, the baby begins to cry in the other room as something smashes on the floor; this shows that as the mum stopped the horse, the so called 'devil' is creating awareness else where to get attention away from Dalton, making the audience wonder why all of this is happening.