THE SENSE OF THE ABYSS IN INSIDIOUS. JAMES WAN AND JOSEPH BISHARA. SYNTAX AND SYNTHESIS OF HORROR

Following the maxims of suspense and the foundational hallmarks of classic horror, James Wan manages to go a step beyond in Insidious, adequately updating and refreshing these seminal parameters and their effect. The director composes a narrative sequence in which the motifs of phantasmagoria and cosmic horror pivot around desemanticization and aporia, formal and content deformity or uncertainty both leading to a constant breakdown of logic and the inverted or anomalous rendition of the domestic and familiar. For this purpose, the essence of Joseph Bishara's atonal and blasting modes crucially and significantly stand out in the text. His atmospheric layers and disrupting syntax epitomize defamiliarization and fragmentation as dramatically related to the convulsive image, perplexity, silence and sensitive aggression, all of them illustrating the sense of fissure and the abyss in the film.