Insidious: Chapter 2 is a 2013 American supernatural horror film directed by James Wan. The film is a sequel to 2010’s Insidious, the second installment in the Insidious franchise, and the fourth in terms of the series’ in-story chronology. The film stars Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne, reprising their roles as Josh and Renai Lambert, a husband and wife who seek to uncover the secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world.
Plot
In 1986, Lorraine Lambert summons demonologist Elise Rainier to help her son Josh, who is being followed by the spirit of an old woman. After encountering paranormal phenomena in the Lambert Home, Elise tells Lorraine that they must suppress Josh’s astral projection abilities for his own safety.
Twenty-five years later, Josh’s wife, Renai Lambert, is under questioning about the death of Elise. She is warned that if Josh’s fingerprints are found at the crime scene, he will be prosecuted for Elise’s murder. Josh, Renai and their children Dalton, Foster and Cali, relocate to Lorraine’s house. They soon begin to encounter strange, seemingly paranormal events.
Specs and Tucker, Elise’s associates, visit Elise’s house and discover a videotape of the 1986 investigation. Upon reviewing it, they find someone standing behind Josh in the video. The next morning, Dalton tells his mother that he has been having bad dreams involving a woman in a white dress; as well as hearing Josh talk to an unseen figure. Renai receives a call from the police stating that the fingerprints do not match Josh’s. The woman in the white dress appears and attacks Renai. Josh hears a voice urging him to kill his family.
Lorraine visits Specs and Tucker and they show her the tape, enhanced to show an adult Josh as the figure standing behind the young Josh. They contact Elise’s former colleague Carl, who attempts to contact Elise’s spirit. They are told to find answers at an abandoned hospital where Lorraine used to work as a doctor. Upon arriving, Lorraine recounts the story of a patient named Parker Crane who was admitted for trying to castrate himself. Two days later, Lorraine saw Parker in an elevator. When Lorraine asked a nurse why Parker was out of his bed, the nurse explained that he had jumped to his death the day before.
Lorraine and the group go to the Crane family home where they find a secret room. Inside they discover numerous corpses, a black wedding gown and newspaper clippings revealing Parker to be a killer referred to as “The Bride in Black” – who kidnapped and murdered young women while dressed as a woman himself.
Josh’s body begins to slowly deteriorate and Renai realizes he is possessed. Lorraine insists that they all get away from Josh. Carl, Specs and Tucker arrive to drug Josh, but Josh manages to subdue all three. Carl awakens in the spirit realm of The Further, where he meets the spirits of the real Josh and Elise. It is revealed that time moves non-chronologically in The Further, and Josh is able to communicate with himself as a child to figure out the location of Parker’s house in The Further.
In the real world, the possessed Josh ambushes Lorraine and Renai, locking Lorraine in a closet. Renai and the children escape to the basement. Dalton voluntarily enters The Further to help his father. In The Further, Josh and the others find Parker’s house. They witness Parker’s mother, Michelle – the woman in the white dress – abusing him for acting like a male, and forcing him to act like a girl. Parker had killed his female victims at the behest of his mother’s spirit. Upon finding Michelle, she and Josh fight. Elise saves Josh and appears to destroy Michelle’s spirit, which stops the possessed Josh from murdering his family in the real world. Parker’s ghost disappears. Carl and Josh escape, only to find Dalton, who leads them back to the living world, allowing Josh to finally regain control of his body. The Lambert family is finally reunited, with Josh and Dalton allowing themselves to once again have their memories suppressed by Carl.
Some time later, Specs and Tucker arrive at the house of a family whose daughter, Allison, is in an unexplained coma. Unknown to them, Elise’s spirit passes between them, going into the house and to Allison’s room. She hears a crackling sound and rises slowly to look over Allison’s head, gasping as she sees something standing in the shadow of the corner of the room.
Cast
Patrick Wilson as Josh Lambert / Parker Crane
Garrett Ryan as young Josh
Rose Byrne as Renai Lambert
Ty Simpkins as Dalton Lambert
Lin Shaye as Elise Ranier
Lindsay Seim as young Elise
Steve Coulter as Carl
Hank Harris as young Carl
Barbara Hershey as Lorraine Lambert
Jocelin Donahue as young Lorraine
Leigh Whannell as Specs
Angus Sampson as Tucker
Andrew Astor as Foster Lambert
Danielle Bisutti as Michelle Crane / Woman in White
Tom Fitzpatrick as Parker Crane / Bride in Black
Tyler Griffin as young Parker
Michael Beach as Detective Sendal
J. LaRose as Long-haired fiend
Brooke Peoples as Neighbor Jessica
Edwina Findley as Front Desk Nurse Hillary
Stephanie Pearson as Dark-haired woman
Jorge Pallo as Brian
Priscilla Garita as Natalie
Jenna Ortega as Annie
Dannay Rodriguez as Allison
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