Review of Insidious: The Last Key (2018) by Jluis_001 — 11 Jan 2018

Leigh Whannell is a genius, trust me, he's not stupid at all, he has managed to gain milllions by creating two of the most successful horror franchises of the recent decade by having a crucial element that Hollywood loves, they cost little and they make a lot of money. No doubt they are a perfect business, but quality, well that's a completely different matter.

The problem here is that Whannell is doing the same thing that was done with other famous horror franchises, non-stop sequels to which they only gave a little shake-up in their plots and they were ready to have another new movie to attract audiences hungry for cheap scares.

Insidious: The Last Key shows that the formula is already exhausted and the environment, the scares, the plot, its development and conclusion no longer give for more, especially because it seems obvious that Whannell no longer knows what to add to Elise's character. Lin Shaye continues to do a good job but the script provides very little for her and frankly her character is already stuck in the repetitive.

Honestly this was a very poor sequel and without a doubt the worst movie of the franchise so far. Now what Whannell should do is to close the cycle and deliver a final movie with Elise facing the so-called Lipstick-Face Demon, because he has been announcing their confrontation for four movies now but he also has been extending things too much. The ending of this movie seems to announce a conclusion, I hope it is like that and I hope he will give a strong and worthy closing to the franchise.