Insidious: Chapter 2 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Insidious: Chapter 2 or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Insidious: Chapter 2

[kenneth]

The U.K. trailer shows footage of Lindsay Seim's actual voice, without the Lin Shaye over-dub.

[fred]

(at around 22 mins) When Specs and Tucker enter Elise's house, there is an African Tribal painting hanging on the wall. It is the same painting seen hanging in Daniel's study in Paranormal Activity 2 (2010) and in the Grandmother's house in Paranormal Activity 3 (2011).

[ella]

Josh (Patrick Wilson) and Tucker (Angus Sampson) also star together in the second series of Fargo (2014). However, unlike Fargo (2014), they share just one scene together in this film, and they never actually see each other face-to-face or exchange any dialogue.

[richard]

When Lorraine wakes up in her room, just before she goes to check on the 2 boys, the old horror movie playing on the TV is Carnival of Souls from 1962. Insidious not only shares similarities with the film as the plot also features the main character stalked by a ghoul, but it heavily influenced several notable horror directors including James Wan.

[manuel]

When Young Lorraine (Jocelyn Donahue) rides down the hospital elevator with Old Parker (Tom Fitzgerald), the music playing in the elevator is 'Funeral March from the Sonata Opus 35' by Chopin.

[kylie]

Garrett Ryan, the actor who plays the young Josh, is in another movie where he senses his future, older self. That other film is Oculus (2013).

[russell]

There is an Australian flag in the corner of Dalton's room in the Lambert house. Leigh Whannell (Specs, writer of Insidious (2010)), Rose Byrne, Angus Sampson and James Wan (writer and director of this second film) all come from Australia; however, Wan was born in Malaysia, but later moved to Australia.

[morris]

(at around 25 mins) When Specs and Tucker analyze the footage of young Josh, the "Panasonic" VCR logo has been worn away in places so that it reads "Panic" instead.

[kenneth]

In this movie, as well as its predecessor, Insidious (2010), Josh Lambert (Patrick Wilson) is pursued by ghosts who want to invade his physical body. This is the opposite way in A Gifted Man (2011), where Michael Holt (Patrick Wilson) is capable to see Anna Paul's ghost (Jennifer Ehle), in order to better him as a doctor and a person.

[kim]

The hospital featured in the film (Linda Vista Community Hospital) has featured in over thirty movies--mainly horror films--many TV series and also music videos.

[janice]

A majority of the film was shot inside Linda Vista Community Hospital, which also doubles as the abandoned hospital that the characters visit.

[bernard]

James Wan: (at around 33 mins) On a computer wallpaper with Specs and Tucker.

[duane]

(at around 34 minutes) When Renai is walking down the hallway, the camera follows her. As the shot moves, archways on the right reveal parts of the dining room and living room. In one of the archways, the ghost woman who attacks Renai can be seen sitting in a chair in the corner surrounded by a window. When she passes the next archway, the woman is gone.

[ella]

When Lorraine has the hospital flashbacks of Parker Crane it is the same hospital used in Halloween II (1981).

[tamara]

During the last scene of the film, as Specs and Tucker arrive at the door of a family in seeming distress, a little girl sees Elise now in her ghost form. As Specs and Tucker explain to the parents who they are, Elise goes inside the house and approaches another girl who is in an apparent coma, and begins to speak to her. She then hears a sort of rusty crackling noise and when looking behind the girl, sees something horrible and gasps. The noise she hears is that of the Lipstick Face Demon from the first movie, moving his claws. For a long time before the third chapter was announced to be a prequel, fans who understood this were excited to see the return of said entity of the further, making a return for the third film.

[ava]

As the first film was inspired by Poltergeist (1982), this film also shares some similarities with Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986). In both movies, the father of the family becomes possessed by the evil spirit of an elderly madman.