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Jul 7, 2023 · Patrick Wilson directs and stars in the fifth and final "Insidious" film, revisiting the Lambert family's trauma and astral projection. The review praises the scares in the first half, but criticizes the rote family drama and the underwhelming finale.
Jul 7, 2023 · 38% Tomatometer 116 Reviews 70% Audience Score 1,000+ Verified Ratings In Insidious: The Red Door, the horror franchise's original cast returns for the final chapter of the Lambert...
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Insidious: The Red Door Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Maxance Vincent InSession Film. It still feels like a satisfying conclusion to a series of...
Jul 7, 2023 · In “Insidious: The Red Door,” a grim, workmanlike effort that collapses into woo-woo nonsense, Wilson makes his directorial debut, and demonstrates he grasps the importance of that jump...
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By Tom Jorgensen
Posted: Jul 6, 2023 8:00 pm
As Blumhouse’s first wholly original franchise, there’s always a sense of homecoming when we get a new Insidious movie – and after two prequel chapters that diverted attention to Lin Shaye’s medium Elise, this feeling permeates Insidious: The Red Door. Patrick Wilson returns to the series, as both an actor and a first-time director, and refocuses the action on the Lambert family, whose journeys into the atmospheric netherworld of The Further have left their strength as a unit broken. Coming full circle back to the Lamberts and pushing those characters to reckon with the effect the first two films had on them provides The Red Door with fertile ground to stage a headier – if less terrifying – take on those bedrock Blumhouse movies.
The Red Door picks up nine years after the Lambert haunting with a slightly-altered version of Chapter 2’s ending: father and son astral projectors Josh (Patrick Wilson) and Dalton (Ty Simpkins) elect to have their memories of the first two movies – and of their abilities – wiped in an effort to prevent the hungry entities of The Further. But the blissful ignorance of that fade-to-white happy ending was short-lived: Though Josh and Dalton can’t remember any specifics, the psychological scarring of the Lipstick-Face Demon’s attacks fractured their family, with Josh in particular unable to express himself in the midst of a worsening brain fog. Dalton is similarly haunted, but a passion for art – a cute nod to his drawings from the first film – seems to have kept him on the rails. A death in the family and Dalton’s simultaneous departure for college puts great strain on the Lamberts, and this time of transition represents a chance for the entities of The Further to attempt to cross over into the living world once again.
In his directorial debut, Patrick Wilson strikes a franchise-best balance between family melodrama and how Insidious’ supernatural elements illustrate it. The Further has always been a charmingly lo-fi horror locale, but The Red Door feels like the first time it (and the entities which call it home) has been used effectively as microcosm for the character arcs being pushed along. Dalton’s art teacher (Hiam Abbass) encourages him to “sink further” into his subconscious as he works on his big project: a painting of a red door he’s seeing in his nightmares. As these trance-like sessions bring secrets about his connection to the spirit world bubbling to the surface, both Dalton’s relationship with Josh and the appetite of the restless spirits become more severe. This shared “sins of the father” storyline and journey towards reconciliation is a simple, but solid thematic base to root the evil entities’ hunger in, and is lent weight by Wilson and Simpkins’ earnest performances. As Dalton, Simpkins in particular has to walk a fine line between the predictable angst of an 18-year-old and the genuine suspicion with which he has to treat Wilson’s Josh.
By and large, Simpkins strikes this balance very well, and maintains a measure of vulnerability for a character who easily could’ve fallen into the “broody art kid” archetype. Josh is on a somewhat parallel track to Dalton in putting his demons to bed. Haunted by Further entities as a child himself, Josh always struggled to engage with the spectral attacks on his family, but his tendency to push through things without talking about them has fully caught up with him here. Compared to the boisterous family man of the first two movies, Wilson plays Josh as a harried husk in The Red Door, and shines in the moments where the character’s barely holding it together. The increased focus on depth for Josh and Dalton reduces Renai (Rose Byrne) and Foster (Andrew Astor) to sounding boards for the lead characters’ struggles, usually through over-the-phone exposition dumps that routinely drag down the pace.
Even if it starts to rely too heavily on surface-level startles, Insidious: The Red Door is a satisfying conclusion to the Lambert family’s long nightmare journey into The Further. First-time director Patrick Wilson grounds The Red Door’s drama in simple stakes – a son trying to forgive his father – and the film is at its best when focusing its hor...
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Insidious: The Red Door is a satisfying conclusion to the Lambert family’s long nightmare journey into The Further, even if it starts to rely too heavily on jump scares by the end.
Tom Jorgensen
Jul 10, 2023 · ‘Insidious: The Red Door’ Review: Patrick Wilson Directs a Desultory Entry in the Hit Franchise. Wilson helms and stars in this fifth installment, a sequel to 2013's 'Insidious: Chapter 2.'
Jul 7, 2023 · Insidious: The Red Door: Directed by Patrick Wilson. With Ty Simpkins, Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Sinclair Daniel. The Lamberts must go deeper into The Further than ever before to put their demons to rest once and for all.
