Recently, I saw the latest movie in the Insidious horror series, Insidious: The Last Key directed by Adam Robitel. The plot is revolved around the main character, Elise Rainier, who has the gift of seeing demons and spirits. She ends up becoming a spirit hunter in attempt to help free humans who may have been haunted by a demon. With this being said, Reinier receives a call to cleanse a house with the address, 413 Apple Tree Lane, in 5 Keys N.M. She notices right away that this was her childhood home, and that it will be a tough situation going back to her past.
The movie starts off with Elise in her childhood, in order to establish more background of the rest of the movie, however in my opinion, this "flashback" lasted for almost half of the movie which was too long. With this being said, it made me forget what the movie was about, and even took away from the main conflict of the plot. It shows her somewhat grow as a character and as the flashback ends, it jumps to about 60 years ahead to where Elise is in the midst of her spirit hunting career. This jump was very sudden, however the director did a pretty good job of making things connect. As the plot progressed, the story shifts into how Elise needs to get rid the demon that she brought into that house. The movie does a good job of moving the story along, however I think it happens a little too quickly to the point where the movie seemed rushed. The plot has a twist pretty early after Elise gets to her childhood home. Once this twist happens, everything basically happens at once eventually ending the movie. I feel as if the flashback in the beginning could have been shorter, and there could have been more in the real conflict of the story to explain how and why certain things happened. I got so lost in the flashback that the rest of the movie went by really quickly, losing the main plot of the film.
The movie itself was not very scary in my opinion either, and there were occasional jump scares that were easy to see coming. I believe with the concept of the story, they could have made the movie much more creepy without only jump scares. Besides that, the lighting, camera movements, music, and more all made the mood very dark and creepy, however it could have definitely been more scary. Considering it was a "horror movie" I would stick to watching only the first Insidious since that one was better in my opinion. By the nature of most movie series, the first one is usually the best.
Other than that I would not necessarily recommend this movie just because it could have been directed better in a way that followed the main story, and not focusing so much on the flashback. I personally thought this movie was a BAD-BAD movie.
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