Insidious vs. The Conjuring
Turn out the lights, get under a cover, grab your crucifixes and get ready for horror movie season, because this year, as far as masters in horror for this generation go, it takes Wan to know one. Today I take Wan's two latest households of haunted-house horror, The Conjuring and the Insidious franchise, both featuring sheer terror, demons and the ability to keep you sleeping with the lights on, and will compare them, contrast them and examine not only what it is that makes these films so terrifying but what has compelled me enough to rant about what makes James Wan a master of his craft. But before we can conjure up where Wan stands today, it is only fitting to take us back to the beginning of his first breakout horror flick and one of the most influential horror films of the last decade, this generation and of all time in the sense that it was a remarkable game changer. Of course the film I'm referring to is Saw , a movie that lite...
