

Perhaps you're walking down a dark hallway or climbing a creaky old staircase and you can't help but feel something unpleasant or dangerous happening. Your imagination starts to run wild… but what is it?
Your challenge is to depict a shadowy twist to a "normal" daily experience showing that danger is always closer than expected: an everyday activity that may be haunted; an accident about to happen; a terror that lurks within! Whether your artwork is based on the Insidious Chapter 2 trailer or the original film, Insidious, or you simply rely on your own sense of approaching dread, we want to see it!

Watch the Insidious Chapter 2 Trailer and read the contest Challenge. Using the visual medium of your choice depict a twist to a "normal" daily experience suggesting that danger is always closer than you think.


- $5,000 USD
- Your winning entry framed & signed by Director James Wan
- Two free tickets to see Insidious Chapter 2 at your local theater
- 8,000 deviantART Points
- 1-Year Premium Membership

- $3,000 USD
- Your winning entry framed & signed by Director James Wan
- Two free tickets to see Insidious Chapter 2 at your local theater
- 4,000 deviantART Points
- 6-month Premium Membership

- $2,000 USD
- Your winning entry framed & signed by Director James Wan
- Two free tickets to see Insidious Chapter 2 at your local theater
- 2,000 deviantART Points
- 6-month Premium Membership

3-month Premium Membership
2,000 deviantART Points

Entry must be received by 11:59:59 PM (PT - Los Angeles CA, USA) on July 7, 2013 and must be submitted to the Contest gallery.
- Entrant must be at least 13 years old as of June 12, 2013 to be eligible to enter the Contest and must be a resident of the United States.
- The completed entry ("Work") may originate in any visual medium but must be submitted at the Contest Site as a single JPG or PNG file, at least 2,000 pixels in the shortest length. Should be suitable to be made into a print.
- The Work must be completely original, but may be based on any of the Entrant's prior work. No stock.
- Multi-panel Works are NOT acceptable.
- Membership to www.deviantart.com (the "Contest Site") is required to enter the contest.
- Membership to www.deviantart.com is free.
- Additional terms and conditions apply.

25 Semi-Finalists will be selected by full-time deviantART Staff.
From the Semi-Finalists, the final three Winners will be selected by James Wan, Director of Insidious Chapter 2.
All entries will be judged on the following criteria:
- Technical merit
- Overall impact of the Work in communicating the Contest challenge (depict a twist to a "normal" daily experience suggesting that danger is always closer than one would think)
- Artistic Skill






















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This is a critical situation here- =R-no71 is in a serious financial situation and could be kicked out of her home to the streets any day now. She's opened up commissions to pay for it and to save herself from having to live on the streets. Please, if anyone can, commission her. She has very high skilled and high quality artwork- you will not regret commissioning. Even if you can not commission, at least help her advertise. Do a good deed!: [link]
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Thank you all!
read the comments on the "feedback-page" [link] , from the first day until now there are the same problems with this shit "uploader" . it's not possible to load up series of pictures , it's not showing the thumbs , it's not possible to upload at all , it's not keeping the presettings - what kind of progress is this ? what kind of "specialists" are working in the technical department of da ??? why are there no da-admins able to/willing to communicate the probs and questions members have ?
after more than THREE (3) months forced live of a test lab rat here on da it's hard to keep calm ! i want back the old uploader ASAP as the most members do . i do not want to stay any longer in this neverending "uploader"- test-story ! take me out here !! and i want answers close to the time if you ask for feedback !!! after this three month i'm wondering if da has the backbone to react democratically ... perhaps you should finish this test now and try it again a few months later . but more professional : competent technical personal and better information about what's happening , update about the state of affaires aso . THIS 3 MONTH+ TEST IS AN IMPOSITION , IT MUST COME TO AN END !!! IT'S ENOUGH !!!
btw i'm prime-member and i was given an additional 12 months prime-membership by the help-desk because of my complaints . very nice act , seriously , but it does not compensate one thing : i do not like the new unrespectful way i'm treated here nowadays . i was forced into something !!! FORCED , UNASKED !!! on an ART-SITE !!!
why didn't da ask for members who are interested in testing a new uploader ? why didn't da announce/present/discuss this BIG CHANGE prior to this desaster of an introduction ? there's so much blahblah in my inbox daily but big things of interest like this big change da tries to introduce "through the backdoor" ... that's mad !! and not very creative for an art-community da wants to be . the whole procedure was not very democratic and it IS poisoning the athmosphere on da ... READ THE COMMENTS on the feedback page [link] !!
please bring this drama to an end asap !
see , i'm 51 years of age , i'm from germany . da was the first internet-site i joined , roundabout 5-6 years ago . to share my street art photography i became member . it was a nice place ... don't destroy it !
She has been a deviant for 9 months... And I told her it was the wrong thing to do...
I don't remember what she put on her page, but stealing artwork is not right~! Report this~!
In the case of copyright violations, the best thing you can do is let the copyright owner know, they can get it dealt with with a legally much simpler procedure and with high priority