Insidious: The Last Key’ fails to live up to franchise’s high standards, you can watch it only if you are a fan of horror films in general and looking for thrills. Ratings: 2/5 Review By: MAYUR SANAP Site:DECCAN CHRONICLE Shaye brings depth to the enterprise and I like that a horror franchise can be fronted by an elderly woman but Insidious: The Last Key feels like a car running on empty. There isn’t much here that you haven’t seen before. There is one twist that I didn’t see coming but the rest of it is all creaking doors, blood-dripping spirits and smoke-filled corridors. But mostly the scares are predictable and the story is limp. The idea of a demon with keys for fingernails is also pretty cool. Ratings: 1.5/5 Review By: Anupama Chopra Site:Filmcompanion Throw in an unsatisfying ending on top of that and the final product is a mediocre movie, lacking the spark of the original.From All the Top Indian Critics reviews on the web The film has no clue what it wants to be and seems insistent on being mediocre, avoiding its own best qualities like the plague. She really is the glue keeping the franchise together, a well written and captivating character that stands out beside a cast made up of generic personalities and quirks.Īll in all, even the surprisingly good qualities to this film can’t save it from being muddy and convoluted, drowning in a sea of too many plot points. Lin Shaye gives a brilliant performance that adds an emotional maturity to the movie. Some of the new characters have potential and some of the imagery is pretty unsettling.ĭespite a lot of the best parts being watered down by pointless jumpscares and pandering dialogue, they’re still present and elevate the film as a whole. There are several really cool elements to ‘ Insidious: The Last Key’ like the main monster's unique and effectively creepy design or the look into Elise Rainer’s past. A lot of the scares would have been better served with more slow-burning tension and the solid pacing of ‘ Insidious: Chapter 3’ has also been left behind. The clever decisions from ‘Insidious’ (like letting our eyes find the scary silhouette in the baby’s room before the blood curdling music kicks in) are nowhere to be seen and the standards set by the original are not even close to being met. I’m not a massive fan of obnoxious bangs and screams but I appreciate a good spook and this film didn’t really deliver. The loud jumpscares are occasionally effective but they’re more frustrating than engaging at this point. The comedy between the two sidekicks (played by Leigh Whannell and Angus Sampson) is often trivial and at best staggering an already confused plot. The child abuse and torture scenes added little more to the plot than shock horror and even then, there’s nothing new as we’ve already seen Whannel go down this route with ‘ Saw’. The first three ‘Insidious’ films were heavily rooted in horror with a few jokes throughout, whereas this one doesn’t seem to know what it wants to be. The movie seems to want to have a Scooby-Doo vibe, from the ghost hunting van to the comedy between the two sidekicks but also tries to delve into very dark, realistic themes like child abuse, kidnapping and suicide. The familiarity found from film to film stopped being a comfort at the end of ‘Insidious: Chapter 3’ and has since become something of a chore.
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Lin Shaye is back in full form but the same can’t be said for Leigh Whannel and new director Adam Robitel. The fourth instalment in the ‘ Insidious’ franchise is lukewarm and doesn’t house the same charm as some of the previous films in the franchise but it’s definitely not a completely unenjoyable film. It’s the fourth film in the ‘Insidious’ franchise and a prequel to ‘Insidious’. It’s about demonologist Elise Rainer’s further struggle with the spirit world, this time in her childhood home where it all began.
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