I recently saw the movie Insidious. It’s a good haunted house horror movie that thankfully doesn’t use a lot of fake-looking CGI to ruin the movie. It looks like they got most of their effects through lighting, make-up, costumes, sets, practical effects, photography, editing, etc., like in the olden days, when the world was young. And it’s no surprise, considering who made it: James Wan, of Saw fame. The Saw movies don’t appear to use a lot of CGI, and they’re extra effective in their visceral impact for their use of practical effects. Or, at least, that’s how it appears to me. (I could be wrong: maybe it’s all CGI. But I doubt it.)
So I like the movie, but there is a problem with it. This will be noticeable mostly for Star Wars fans. You see, in the movie Insidious, the evil demon guy thingy looks a lot like Darth Maul from The Phantom Menace, with red and black patterned KISS make-up on his face; but the movie is called, and his character is said to be, Insidious. But we all know that Darth Sidious doesn’t look like that: he’s the evil emperor. So they should have made the demon look like the evil emperor if they were going to call it Insidious, right? But since he looks like Darth Maul, shouldn’t it be called The Mauler? Or did the movie makers do this on purpose (having the demon look like Darth Maul, and then name the movie after Darth Sidious) just to get all the Star Wars nerds talking and blogging about it? That's a lot of free publicity!
You know, perhaps this really is Darth Maul. After he died in The Phantom Menace, maybe he decided to go around and haunt anyone who spoke badly of the movie. But actually, I guess he’d be so busy doing that, he would have been stretched way too thin to kidnap that one kid and sew stuff. (He did some sewing in the movie. Maybe he was just making the kid some Star Wars Darth Maul pajamas, and he needed to have the kid there for measuring purposes, since these are the kind with the feet, and they won’t fit right if they’re not tailored properly.) But I think it would have been way scarier if the demon was Jar Jar Binks! (“Meesa steala you soul and possessa you body!”)
