Insidious: The Last Key (2018)

Insidious: The Last Key (2018)

Parapsychologist Dr. Elise Rainier faces her most fearsome and personal haunting yet - in her own family home. Adam Robitel helms the fourth entry of the Insidious series, with Chapter 3 director Leigh Whannell providing the script, centering around parapsychologist Elise Rainier (Lin Shaye) and her continued voyage into the "further".

Rating: PG-13 (for disturbing thematic content, violence and terror, and brief strong language)

Genre: Horror

Directed By: Adam Robitel

Written By: Leigh Whannell

In Theaters: Jan 5, 2018 Wide

On Disc/Streaming: Apr 3, 2018

Box Office: $29,581,355

Runtime: 103 minutes

Studio: Universal Pictures

The Insidious timeline is becoming so murky, even a scary ghost lurking behind a locked door in the basement might give up and say, "Time out! Am I even supposed to be in this particular story? Who am I haunting again, and what's my motivation?" The fourth installment of Leigh Whannell's ghost-and-mediums horror series wraps up its own free-association illogic with an impenetrable tangle of woo-woo spirit-world mechanics and lingo. If you've seen one "Insidious," you've seen them all. Of the four Insidious films, only one has been any good and, although The Last Key may not be the worst of them, it's easily the most irrelevant and generic. Four films into the series, the layout of the spirit realm has become too familiar, a soundstage of fog machines and grotesquerie that Robitel and Whannell haven't populated with any fresh shocks. Overall this is a predictable horror movie that relies on jump scares rather than mental darkness. Insidious may have run its course. It borrows from other horror films to the point where it doesn't feel like there's any fresh content whatsoever. While the Insidious series has given Shaye a rare moment in the spotlight, there's a sense in which Elise has been cursed by Hollywood's endless demand for sequels. I would rate the movie 2.5/5