I do not know which comes first: the title of the movie or the species of ghost. But Insidious: The Last Key provokes me to suspect that the title is a trick from the filmmakers just in case, making sure we do not forget. When you talk about the movie, the audience will automatically refer to "it lhoo, there is a Key Ghost". Easy to remember right? "Last (((Key)))" - Ghost (((Key))). They know we will forget this movie, so they provide a reminder code.
Speaking of the Key Ghost, as if his name had not been silly enough, his appearance was equally comical. Key Ghosts have key-shaped fingers. The key function is to open dozens of iron bars in "The Further", an astral parallel universe in Indonesia equivalent to the term "Natural Invisibility". But the key can also be used to terrorize. So the key will be inserted into human's neck or chest (do not ask), cetekk !, then, uhm how yaa talking, something will happen. Like that. The hell anyway.
Just as his franchise is unrelenting, so is Elise Rainier (Lin Shaye), an insidious paranormal specialist who has died in the first film. Scriptwriter Leigh Whannell must have regretted doing so because Elise became what the likes of Insidious liked. Whannell raises him back in the third film that tells of Elise's old case. The Last Key completes by exploring the origin story of Elise as well as ushering us into the Dalton family in the first film. In short: this movie is a sequel to the prequel and prequel movie of the first film.
The film opened in the 1950s, when little Elise (Ava Kolker) lived in a house right next to a prison complex and, of course, haunted. Elise saw it herself. His sister, Christian (Pierce Pope) is brightly afraid to see his brother who mumbles mystical things. Her mother (Tessa Ferrer) considers Elise special and this is her talent. Unfortunately the father (Josh Stewart) does not believe in things like this. When Elise says she saw a ghost, Dad will instantly hit Elise and lock her up in the basement.
This is where things go wrong, where Elise accidentally opened a mysterious red door.
Long story short, Elise ran away from home. Not because he saw the demon superseram, but because it can not stand the abusive treatment of his father. We then return to 2010, when Elise (Shaye) has become a paranormal of success. One day, he got a request to cast out demons from a house. And the house turned out to be his home as a child!
Of course, Elise will be accompanied by her two assistants, Specs (Whannell) and Tucker (Angus Sampson) whose paranormal competence is equivalent to her Scooby-Doo Mistery Machine crew. The horror is that these two men will throw a lot of funny jokes that are so crisp, I hope there are spectators who play the sound of crickets every time they try to laugh.
When something supernatural happens, we do not need to be confused even though Instagram is in the cinema. Our characters will explain it by talking with ourselves or others, even though they already know. As if Whannell, who still faithfully wrote scripts, was afraid we did not understand what was happening on the screen. Hearing them doing this very often obviously makes me hot.
Director Adam Robitel seems to be stuck in the rating of "PG-13/13 +" which means it should be more friendly than The Conjuring "R / Adult". But he is also mistaken. Playing a scene does not mean building a suspense, that's a long-winded name. Even so, there is one horror scene that is quite ingenious, that is when Elise enter the culvert to open mysterious suitcases. We know we will be given a jump-scare, but not in the way we think.
To be honest, there is also an interesting part. The plot itself is actually pretty fresh. He touched the family tragedy. Moreover, as an ordinary person, I am still puzzled as to how the paranormal mechanism sees a ghost. When do they believe that what they see is a ghost? The look of the messy is not always a ghost right? This film uses it cleverly for a twist, although in retrospect, in character's motivation, it does not connect with the events at the beginning of the film.
"The Further" is one of the interesting creations of horror movies. In The Last Key, as the story progresses, the mythology of "The Further" becomes more confusing. I think it is fair that some of the audience is ready to wave, giving up the plot. This film contains many pieces that are not clear how to relate to other parts. Next thing we know at the end of our film is "The Further". I can not be sure that this is the worst Insidious movie, but I can say that this is the most insidious Insidious movie I watch.