Insidious (I) (2010)

Lin Shaye: Elise Rainier

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• Elise Reiner : It's not the house that is haunted. It's your son.

• Lorraine Lambert : The reason I knew to call Elise in this situation, the reason I know her so well, is because I called her myself once, years ago, to help you.

  Josh Lambert : What are you talking about, Mom?

  Elise Reiner : It's no accident that your son is a gifted traveler. The ability was handed down to him.

  Lorraine Lambert : By his father.

• Elise Reiner : Close your eyes, Josh. Take a deep breath and relax. With each breath, let the life around you fade into the background. Just listen to the ticking of the metronome. Focus on the spot in the center of your forehead. The universe is deathless. It is deathless because having no finite self, it stays infinite. A sound man, by not advancing himself, stays the further ahead of himself.

• Josh Lambert : I'm Josh.

  Elise Reiner : I knew that. You've grown since I last saw you.

  Josh Lambert : Since you last saw me?

  Elise Reiner : Your mother and I have been friends a long time.

• Elise Reiner : Have you ever heard of astral projection?

  Renai Lambert : Yes. It's out of body experience or something?

  Elise Reiner : I like to call them travelers. You see, these are people with the ability to leave their physical body and to travel to different places in astral form. Now, Dalton; he is a very accomplished astral projector. He's been doing it in his sleep for a long time. He has been since he was very young. And he's unafraid because he thinks they're dreams. And it's that very lack of fear that has led him to travel too far. And to become lost.

• Josh Lambert : Who is she?

  Elise Reiner : A parasite. She befriended your astral body and lured you into the Further just as Dalton has been.

• Elise Reiner : I don't think bad wiring is the problem here.

• Elise Reiner : The Further is a world far beyond our own, yet it's all around us. A place without time as we know it. It's a dark realm filled with the tortured souls of the dead. A place not meant for the living. That's where Dalton is. And the problem is that with his astral body gone, he's just left us with a physical body, an empty vessel. And there are entities that know this because they can smell it. That's why they've gathered around him.

  Renai Lambert : Are these the things that I've been seeing?

  [Elise nods] 

  Elise Reiner : They're all trying to get inside his physical body simply because they... they crave life; the chance to live again. But there are other entities who are malevolent and have a more insidious agenda. And then there's this...

  [Elise shows a drawing of Lipstick-Face Demon] 

  Elise Reiner : A demon who seeks Dalton's body for one reason - to cause pain to others.

• Elise Reiner : Follow my voice, Dalton.

• Elise Reiner : [describing Lipstick-Face Demon]  He has hooves for feet!

• Josh Lambert : Mrs. Rainer?

  Elise Reiner : No, Mrs. Rainer is my mother. Just call me Elise.

• Elise Reiner : Now you're outside. Let my voice be your guide. Keep a steady stride. Into the Further you go.

• Elise Reiner : Leave this vessel! Leave this vessel!