Insidious 2 More supernatural freakery for Patrick Wilson and family.
Wilson returns in Insidious 2, playing a husband and father with some scary personal baggage.
Among September releases, Ron Howard's motor racing drama Rush crosses the finish line in first place with £6.54m, ahead of Richard Curtis's About Time (£6.26m) and Insidious 2 (£6.02m).
M Night Shyamalan's supposed comeback, found-footage chiller The Visit, is at $76.7m, closing fast on Insidious 3's $109.5m horror benchmark for the year.
(Universal) Some tawdry revisionists have questioned the belief that the Feeling are an insidious, 10-legged banality who are capturing minds like nuclear-grade Nazi Crank.
Rush debuted mid-September in second place, behind Insidious 2 (£2.10m v £2.88m), rising to the chart summit a week later, and then slipping back a notch in its third week of play.
It's the strongest horror opening of the year (beating Insidious 3 and Poltergeist, both $22.6m), jumping up strongly from Friday to Saturday to put the $5m film, a collaboration with no-budget outfit Blumhouse, firmly in the black already.
It speaks to how insidious 24/7 working culture is that the first time I noticed a very senior colleague had switched on her OOO in the evening, I remarked that I didn't know she was going away anywhere.
It Follows was playing in the same multiplex as Unfriended, which itself was preceded by trailers for The Gallows, Insidious 3, The Visit and the Poltergeist remake, one or other of which was advertised as being "from the producers of The Purge and The Grudge".
(More recently, he made his directorial debut with Insidious 3).
Fecundity of M. confusa was significantly higher than for O. insidious, 10.6 ± 1.5 eggs per 48 h versus 5.0 ± 1.4, respectively.
