**This is a spoiler-free review so feel free to read on!**
“We’re ready to forget once and for all…”
Insidious: The Red Door released in theaters on July 7th 2023. The fifth film of the supernatural horror franchise stars Patrick Wilson, Ty Simpkins, Sinclair Daniel, and Rose Byrne. It runs for approximately an hour and forty-seven minutes.
After Josh Lambert drops his son off at college, both of them begin having nightmares and hallucinations as something horrifying from their past comes back to haunt them.
Here is the trailer:
Insidious: The Red Door is the final film in the franchise and Patrick Wilson’s directorial debut as he attempts to give us a satisfying conclusion. Is it worthy of your next watch? Let’s find out…
The Pros:
The friendship between Dalton and Chris.
Even though we recognize Patrick Wilson as the face of this franchise, this film focuses a lot more on his son, Dalton. Dalton goes off to college and is really moody and artsy. Honestly he was really dull, but I really liked the friendship between him and Chris and I thought that Chris really livened things up in a positive way.
She prevented things from feeling too stale and gave us someone else to root for.
Fun cameos and a few solid scares.
I did jump a few times and thought some of the scares were actually well done. I can’t say the same for all of the scares, but there were a few moments of dread in this that are worth noting.
I appreciated the cameos (especially since this is the final chapter), which made this film feel a little more familiar.
The Cons:
Don’t bench your best players…
I get that he was directing this film, but I wanted more of Patrick Wilson. We’ve seen this type of move before with the Halloween franchise when we shifted over to Corey and Allyson. I didn’t mind a lot of the college scenes…although the frat stuff seemed overdone. I guess I was just looking for more screen time for certain characters since this was the final chapter.
I also wanted more of an explanation about what was going on in “The Further,” but this film focused more on the family instead. Even though I liked some of the scares, many of them just felt really watered down and predictable.
The pacing also felt super slow, which made this film feel longer than it actually was.
So am I in or out?
I’m in about 75 percent…
Insidious: The Red Door does enough to close off the franchise, but I wanted it to do something new and unique here.
The movie was OK for the most part, but it needed a lot more than watered down jump scares to fully capture my attention.
I hope you enjoyed the review and feel free to post your own thoughts and theories on Insidious: The Red Door in the comments section below. Thanks so much for reading and happy viewing!
DON’T TAKE THE JOB…
It was only supposed to be temporary…but when Olivia Crewe accepts a new position that seems too good to be true, she soon discovers that twelve other girls previously had the same job as her. Only none of them lasted for more than thirty days. No notice. Nothing…right before they mysteriously disappeared without a trace.
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