Think about it - its main protagonist is an elderly lady, its mythology is rather imaginatively developed, and The Further is a strikingly designed place. To be fair, Insidious was never quite as generic as it has now become. In fact, that is exactly what the man sitting next to me at the screening was amusing himself by doing. Anyone with even the most basic understanding of horror movies could safely predict not only the next twist, but even certain characters’ replies. Nothing about the manner in which it is directed, or shot, or scored or the way in which its scenes are constructed or they way in which its characters interact with each other is effective in the least. The problem with The Last Key is that it simply doesn’t have the slightest enthusiasm to muster up something fresh for its fans.
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In Insidious: The Last Key, Elise must exorcise the demons of her past and together with her sidekicks - Tucker and Specs, still the best thing about this series – she gets to work. She calls it a ‘house’ and not a ‘home’ because it was in that creaky old building that she was tortured by monsters – both real and metaphysical.
No one told her this, but Elise’s sixth sense kicked into sixth gear and informed her that this haunting is happening in the same house that she grew up in. No sooner has the man on the line whispered the words ‘New’ and ‘Mexico’, Elise slams the phone down. The phone rings and Elise jumps, because how could even the slightest sound in movies such as this not be played for scares. Elise Rainier, the demonologist plagued with visions of a ghostly realm she likes to call The Further, is called upon for help by a man living in an old house in New Mexico. For its fourth go-around, series’ writer Leigh Whannell (Wan has long since dove into Atlantis), has crafted an origin story of sorts. James Wan’s original was a creepy little movie with an exciting premise, but little ambition to do much with it. So this year it’s the turn of a franchise that has been good for exactly an hour across four movies.
By now we should be accustomed to this ritual abuse that we’re made suffer at the beginning of every year, when movie studios don’t know what to do with stuff they impulsively bought and then promptly forgot on the shelf. But it’s January, and the arrival of Insidious: The Last Key shouldn’t come as a surprise.
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