Are you ready to return to the Insidious universe for the fifth time? We certainly hope so, because Insidious: The Red Door is scaring the heck of viewers and is now playing in Australian cinemas.
Series star Patrick Wilson returns as Josh, the beleaguered patriarch of the much-haunted Lambert family. But Wilson has extra duties on this latest instalment—he’s making his feature directing debut here, working from a script by Scott Teems (Halloween Kills and Firestarter) and a story by franchise co-creator Leigh Whannell.
Insidious: The Red Door picks up a decade after the events of Insidious: Chapter 2 (is it even a modern film franchise if the chronology makes sense?), with our man Josh dropping all-grown-up son Dalton (Ty Simpkins) off at college to begin a new stage in his life. But wouldn’t you know it? The pesky demons that made Dalton’s childhood hell aren’t done with him, forcing father and son (and presumably mum Renai, given Rose Byrne is also returning) to battle the supernatural once more. Luckily, Lin Shaye is back as psychic Elise Rainier to lend a hand, despite being killed off in the very first film.
Fans will recall that, at the end of Insidious: Chapter 2, Josh and Dalton had their memories suppressed, burying all knowledge of The Further (the series’ spiritual realm—think The Upside Down from Stranger Things and you’re not too far off) and the various malevolent entities that inhabit it. So we can look forward to the pair having the scales lifted from their eyes in the most traumatic manner imaginable. We can also look forward to series newcomers Hiam Abbass, Sinclair Daniel, Peter Dager, and Jarquez McClendon getting scared half (or all the way) to death, too.
It’s been five years now since Insidious: The Last Key—let’s hope The Red Door remains open going forward.
