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Critics Consensus: Insidious: The Last Key offers franchise star Lin Shaye another welcome opportunity to take the lead, but her efforts aren't enough to rescue this uninspired sequel.
Critic Consensus: Insidious: The Last Key offers franchise star Lin Shaye another welcome opportunity to take the lead, but her efforts aren't enough to rescue this uninspired sequel.
All Critics (99) | Top Critics (19) | Fresh (32) | Rotten (67)
Tiresome.
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.
This one is almost good.
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.
To this day, I can still think of the crazy and scary moments of the first two Insidious films. I can't say that about The Last Key no matter how much of a fan I may be with this franchise.
The kind of horror film that tells you exactly when to close your eyes, but it's fun nonetheless.
Insidious: The Last Key fulfills my wish of learning more about Elise, but it is still probably the weakest installment of the franchise.
A serviceable prequel, but it is also the weakest entry in the franchise because it fails to do anything new with the property
Leans harder than the others have on the central theme of hauntings as a metaphor for generational trauma and psychic scarring - though it doesn't lose sight of being the "fun" haunted house series opposite the Conjuring movies.
The fourth trek into The Further resembles what awaits when one duplicate their abode's metallic pass at most Houston Home Depots: a dud.
Tying up the series, Insidious: The Last Key is a mediocre horror film that delivers some mild scares. When Elise receives a call from a man living in her childhood home about a malevolent spirit, she decides that it's time for her to go back and confront her past. Unfortunately the writing isn't that good, as the plot is chalk full of clichés and tired old tropes. There are also a number of contrivances forced in to connect the film to the previous ones. And the ending doesn't really make a lot of sense. Still, the ghost investigations and confrontations are pretty intense and suspenseful. Also, the prison setting and creature design for the main villain are kind of creepy. Insidious: The Last Key, while it has its problems, is a fairly solid supernatural thriller that's about on par with the rest of the series.
Super Reviewer
Everything that made the first Insidious so effective and scary is gone now, and so there is basically nothing worth watching in this pointless, lazy and stupid movie that underestimates the viewer's intelligence all the time with endless plot holes and cheap scares.
Thrills and scares.....not going to lie the insidious franchise is one which I greatly enjoy!
Insidious is a franchise that I've been following since the release of the first film back in 2010. This franchise had an extremely strong start and the first installment was actually a favorite horror film of mine for quite some time. I still love watching that film, but each connective film has gotten progressively worse each time, building a franchise that's slowly fizzling out. Insidious: The Last Key is the fourth film to hit theatres in this franchise and quite frankly, even though it has its moments of terror, it's really not that great of a film. If you're a fan of the franchise, there are aspects that are worthy of fans seeing, but I wouldn't say the movie impressed me on many more levels than that. Let's dive into the story. Taking place not too long after the events of the first two films, Elise explores her past and how it interconnects with everything that has happened throughout the franchise so far. Having to face her dark past, while trying to save the lives of everyone around her, this film still has this likable character in the forefront. That being said, this is a film that suffers from trying to connect itself to previous films, making certain scares feel incredibly forced, taking me out of the overall story. Without spoiling it for fans, there are certain sequences that directly relate to past films, right down to actually showing old scenes, but they felt out of place, due to the nature of the story at hand. This film felt the most distant from anything else in the franchise, so when it connects itself to previous story threads, it felt unnecessarily complex. So yes, this is the weakest installment and it very rarely feels like an actual Insidious movie, but I must admit, there are some really solid scares scattered throughout this movie. If for nothing else, horror junkies will get a kick out of some really terrifying moments here. Whether it's a figure standing in the background in a unique way, a creepy conversation happening between children, great uses of sound effects to make you squirm in your seat, or just slowly taking its time to build tension for a nice payoff, Insidious: The Last Key is pretty impressive. If you're in it simply to have a few great scares, then this will probably satisfy you just fine; However, scares are not everything when it comes to horror films. I want to be transported into a unique world when I watch a horror film. The majority of horror films deal with supernatural aspects and therefore require you to open your mind to strange possibilities. Sadly, I felt as though each one of the previous films had far more interesting ideas sprinkled throughout them, that this just felt like one big disappointment. I found myself wishing that the premise itself was better, especially when the twists occur, because many of them are just average slasher flick surprises. In the end, Insidious: The Last Key is impressive when it comes to genuine scares, but lacks in almost every other aspect. Yes, I jumped out of my seat on multiple occasions, but that's not enough to make me recommend this movie. Hardcore horror junkies will get a few kicks out of it, but the screenplay is derivative of so many previous horror movies, it does nothing new to expand on The Further, which was so interesting in the first two films, and I left this movie feeling slightly cheated as a fan. It didn't have the special feel that the others did and if it didn't have the few direct tie-ins that it showcases, it really could've been titled anything else. I'm not tearing this movie apart, it's just incredibly mediocre.
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