I am totally smitten with actress Lin Shaye, not in a crush way (though there would be nothing wrong with that, I am sure) but in a 'I would just love to sit down and talk with her over tea' kind of way. She is the only reason the first two "Insidious" movies are any good at all and a huge and wonderfully subdued force behind the much, much better and nicely restrained "Insidious 3," where she has a much more central role.
Her acting gives all three movies a touching sincerity and vulnerability that is seriously lacking in so many horror movies, both the good ones and the bad. And yet her character "Elise" is also amazingly strong in the most wonderful and quiet of ways. In real life, you would just love to have this woman on your side...her character's understated way of caring deeply for the people who come into her life and the way she can take on anything, no matter how much she struggles with it at first.
Lin Shaye is the kind of actress you are just in awe of and in a Hollywood where actresses over the age of 40 do not always get starring roles (AND ones where they are the hero) it is just terrific to see her clearly enjoying her job and making it something so very believable...not always an easy thing to do (as in the case of the first two "Insidious" movies) when things can get a bit garish and, sometimes, even silly.
"Insidious 3" is a prequel and can stand alone if you have not seen the first and second ones and I am so pleasantly surprised by just how good it is.
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