Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015)

• Year: 2015
• Released: 05 Jun 2015
• Country: Canada, United Kingdom, United States
• Adwords: 3 wins & 10 nominations
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3195644/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/insidious_chapter_3
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/insidious-chapter-3
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: PG-13
• Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
• Runtime: 97 min
• Writer: Leigh Whannell
• Director: Leigh Whannell
• Cast: Dermot Mulroney, Stefanie Scott, Angus Sampson
• Keywords: sequel,

	6.1/10
	52/100
	57% – Critics
	51% – Audience

Insidious: Chapter 3 Storyline

The teenager Quinn Brenner visits the medium Elise Rainier expecting to contact her mother Lillith. Quinn explains that she tried to contact her mother alone, but Elise refuses to help her. Soon Quinn is haunted by the fiend of The Man Who Can’t Breathe in her room but her skeptical father Sean Brenner does not believe in her words. However, when Quinn is violently attacked by the evil spirit, Sean asks Elise to help his daughter. Elise tries, but she is attacked by the Bride In Black that wants to kill her and she refuses to continue. The desperate Sean is convinced by his son Alex to contacts the charlatans Tucker and Specs that have a blog relating their supernatural experiences while Elise meets her friend Carl that convinces her to help Quinn. Can the teenager be saved from the possession of the evil spirit?

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The Same Formula Rekindled

The teenager Quinn Brenner (Stefanie Scott) visits the medium Elise Rainier (Lin Shaye) expecting to contact her mother Lillith (Ele Keats). Quinn explains that she tried to contact her mother alone, but Elise refuses to help her. Soon Quinn is haunted by the fiend of The Man Who Can’t Breathe (Michael Reid MacKay) in her room but her skeptical father Sean Brenner (Dermot Mulroney) does not believe in her words. However, when Quinn is violently attacked by the evil spirit, Sean asks Elise to help his daughter. Elise tries, but she is attacked by the Bride In Black (Tom Fitzpatrick) that wants to kill her and she refuses to continue. The desperate Sean is convinced by his son Alex (Tate Berney) to contacts the charlatans Tucker (Angus Sampson) and Specs (Leigh Whannell) that have a blog relating their supernatural experiences while Elise meets her friend Carl (Steve Coulter) that convinces her to help Quinn. Can the teenager be saved from the possession of the evil spirit?

“Insidious: Chapter 3” is a horror film and prequel of “Insidious” that uses the same successful formula rekindled. The performances are convincing and the storyline is well written. The astral projection of Elise is scary and the viewer will certainly startle many times. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): “Sobrenatural: A Origem” (“Supernatural: The Origin”)

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Obscure story – girl gets haunted because … her ghosts need to be dispelled?

The first hour is impressive. As always with this series, the sound is excellent (although the shrieking-witch violins are held back to the end credits), and there’s an effective jump scare at 30 mins + at 50 mins a really well lamp-lit journey in the after-world. And it’s good to see Lyn Shane carrying a film.

So the whole thing is nicely set up – maybe an allegory for a father’s grief over his daughter’s suicidal tendency – and then … they introduce the ghost busters team and ruin the whole effect. Also the rest of the jump scares are lame. Pfff. And the father has no real character. And James Wan is part of the cast – the director in the theatre.

The tone changes so radically in the final act that you have to think the producers reduced the plot to a marketing vehicle so they could plan for the next sequel.

Back to the beginning

It took me a while to watch ‘Insidious’ and its follow ups, with so much going on with my studies and commitments and with an ever growing watch and review list. Decided to finally watch them all, with the intent of reviewing the latest film as part of my quest to see as many 2018 films as possible and wanting to see how it compared with the previous outings. Also with an appreciation, if not quite undying love, for horror.

Although there are people who understandably dislike it, found myself enjoying the first ‘Insidious’. It didn’t blow me away but it was well made and genuinely scary. So watched ‘Insidious: Chapter 2’ hoping it would be as good. ‘Insidious: Chapter 2’ for me was watchable but not as good, and feel the same about the third instalment. There are big drawbacks but there are good things here too.

First and foremost, ‘Insidious: Chapter 3’ looks great, especially for horror films released in recent years (too many of which have looked like they were made on the schlocky cheap). It looks slick and stylish while having a spooky setting and suitably nightmarish lighting. The effects are also suitably eerie. Although a bit too loud in spots, the music is hauntingly atmospheric.

Leigh Whannell does a surprisingly decent job for his first time in the director’s chair and there are some genuine shocks and some creepy scares and dread. Did like the restraint of some of the first part once it gets going and it was here where ‘Insidious: Chapter 3’ was at its strongest. The acting is not bad at all, with Stefanie Scott a strong lead and the acting honours going to Lin Shaye’s ghoulish gusto-filled Elise. There is emotional impact with the theme of coping with loss and there are characters worth caring for.

Regrettably, ‘Insidious: Chapter 3’ has drawbacks. It does lack tension and suspense all the way through and other scares are predictable, more silly than creepy and felt like throwing in as many horror elements as one can muster regardless of originality. Some of the film is on the dull side, with it taking too long to get going, while the second half gets feels like a completely different film. After a restrained first half that was flawed but had a good deal of atmosphere still, the second half comes over as too silly and over-the-top, the suspense and dread diminishing and the lack of sense and stupidity increasing. There is very little new here or much to set it apart from what was seen before, being even more derivative than the first two entries which both lacked originality too. For a prequel parts and ideas were not developed enough, any explanations generally were neither plausible or interesting and there are more questions raised than answers, not good for something meant to clean and tie things up.

Moreover, ‘Insidious: Chapter 3’ fails to make sense and gets muddled in the latter stages. The ending perplexes and the ghostbusters were annoying and served no real point. The script does not sound very natural and lacks tautness.

Altogether, watchable but a disappointment. 5/10 Bethany Cox