Insidious: The Red Door is the next installment in the franchise set nine years after Insidious: Chapter 2. In this story the kids have grown up and the Lamberts have divorced, and Lorraine has passed away. Josh (Patrick Wilson) has a strained relationship with his kids, especially with his son Dalton (Ty Simpkins), who has just started art school. Both have no memory or recollection of the time they spent in “The Further”, they just think they were in a coma.
When Josh and Dalton begin to experience the same astral projection and hauntings that happened in the previous movies, things start to get a little more interesting. This time around James Wan isn’t at the helm for this Blumhouse and Sony Pictures film, instead Patrick Wilson takes the ropes as director. What Wilson fails to do is bring the scare factor that we’re so used to getting from Blumhouse pictures. There was no tension or slow build ups to the frightening scenes, which let the movie down a bit.
A highlight for “The Red Door” was in Sinclair Daniel who plays Chris, she is weird and funny and was a bright spark for the film amongst the gloom. Leigh Whannell who has given us some great stories in the horror genre, and does another impeccable job crafting this one. Hopefully as this franchise continues we might see Whannell and James Wan reteam and cultivate another perfect movie like they did with ‘Saw’.
‘Insidious: The Red Door’ is another offering in the conjuringverse, and will surely be yet another hit for Blumhouse.
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