'Insidious: The Red Door' movie review- Lean but not a mean enough horror effort

Updated On: 07 July, 2023 02:39 PM IST | Mumbai | Johnson Thomas

Insidious: The Red Door review: This is an attempt at generational horror, aka the fifth in the franchise series and tries to blend familiar aspects with new ideas and ambitions

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Film: Insidious: The Red Door
Cast: Ty Simpkins, Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Lin Shaye, Andrew Astor, Hiam Abbass, Sinclair Daniel, Peter Dager
Director: Patrick Wilson
Rating: 2/5
Runtime: 107 min

This film marks the franchises’ lead actor Patrick Wilson’s directorial debut and the result is not exactly a horror show of remarkable strength but it manages a few middling scares nevertheless. The movie completely depends on the story of the previous installments, so it`s obvious the producers (James Wan and Oren Poli) are milking the franchise for all its worth by situating this attempt to gain closure, within the minds of its lead characters.

The script revolves around the Lambert familys` ‘insidious’ past which comes back to haunt their present. The symbolic red door that leads deep into the Further is not as bloody red(no visible carnage as such) as one would expect and Josh Lambert and his now estranged teenage son, Dalton’s attempts to put their demons to rest once and for all, isn’t as interesting as the first couple of franchise entries. Going deeper into The Further than ever before involves facing their family`s dark past which they have been hypnotised to forget several years ago.

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