DO NOT OPEN THAT DOOR!!!!
Of Course we know they're going to open it. Otherwise the flick would stall. SO they open the door, we gasp in fear, scream from what ever, then relax a little to continue to watch.
Insidious: The Last KEY *** 1/2
an entire movie about opening physical and Metaphysical doors. There are a few things that keep a franchise fresh is to jump around in time. Or going more in-depth into a character that was previously there for support, but you want to know more. The Last key goes more indepth into Elise Ranier the
Medium/Para psychologist introduced in Insidious (1) called upon in order to save a child of a couple. This time, its more of her tragic history.
A job in New Mexico, brings her back to her childhood home, owned now by Ted Garza (Kirk Acevedo) . The house sits on a property of a prison that participated in Executions. Ted as the new owner keeps having creepy things going about the house to the point of where he can't sleep, and per usual needs help of the paranormal kind.
*SPOILER ALERT**
Backstory is that while younger, Elise would see the spirits of those just executed, and additional ghosts. Her father Gerald (Josh Stewart) , a guard at the prison didn't believe in spirits and so forth and would beat her and we suspect he beat her mother as well. Her Mother, Audrey ( Tessa Ferrer) would comfort her as best as she could, until one night after a particularly bad episode between Elise and her Father she's sent to the basement and is taken over by a spirit. While in a catatonic state her mother tries to wake her, and the spirit kills her mother. . As a result the relationship is ruined between Elise and her father. Elise runs away in her teens leaving her brother behind after she sees a woman in the laundry room.
Jump however many years into the present and BLAM both her, and her dynamic duo of nerds (Writer Leigh Whannell [Specs] and Angus Sampson [Tucker]) are back at her old home, going through rooms while Ted walks around asking, demanding that they stay in only that room.
** SPOILER ALERT***
They don't stay in the room, and end up chasing a ghost down to the cellar after finding some keys, and what they find.......Is a woman locked up in a "secret room". AS in a LIVE, BREATHING, OMG what they hell did I walk into when I opened up that door WOMAN. A woman eerily similar to the one before that prompted her leaving her home in the first place back in 19??
Cops come ask some questions, after you know foiling kidnapping/Murdering Teds plans. YAY for the ghost hunters.
Elise, and the guys run into her Brother, and her nieces at a diner. (Hilarity ensues w/both guys and her nieces) An unpleasant exchange, and then a revelation about one of the nieces. Prompts the Brother (Bruce Davison) to go back looking for a long lost keepsake Elise found while working the house and conveniently at the Police Station being questioned.
*Rant* Common sense, says don't go back into a haunted house that is currently involved in a kidnapping/murder investigation but, hey when its a childhood keepsake lets just ransack the place instead of talking to a sibling, and bring your daughters with for whatever reason. Then be super surprised, and aggravated when one of the daughers is attacked. By a Spirit. That was haunting the place to begin with! *Rant OVer*
Elise goes back to the house sensing some evil, and does some investigating of her own, not happy with just solving one kidnapping, they discover suitcases of bodies in a part of the cellar. Some of the cases so old, they had to have been done by her father as Ted is not old enough to have been alive at the time. A spirit guides Elise and her "Sensitive" niece to attempt to save the Niece that was attacked. By OPening up the Metaphysical doors. RED DOORS.
Again, with Opening of doors. She's caught by a particularly nasty looking and behaving Entity (that has a face that only PREDATOR could love) and see's the spirit of her father across the way. The Entity, being you know that stand up Entity that he is(NOT), has Elise beat the living crap out of her Father. Angry at him for his treatment of her gift, and the bones discovered, she complies but has a realization and stops. As a result she's attacked, and her fathers spirit is punished for interfering * little misty*
REmember that keepsake that she found, that her brother wanted? Turns out that Keepsake, when used calls up the Spirit of her Mother. She saves Elise, The sensitive niece, and the other by giving the Entity a swift kick.
*CRIES*
Movie ends with a call from the couple from the 1st insidious.
PROS:
Less is more. Yes there is some CGI but its not used heavily where it becomes distracting. With the amount the franchise alone has brought in, they could've gone overboard.
Emotional investment in all of the characters...Minus the one Dumb Niece (you don't go into the attic or cellars of haunted houses....ALONE) This is probably one of handful of movies that have made me mist up. This is the only "Horror" movie that has ever made me cry. Maybe I'm still grieving from my own loss.
Lin Shay- MIC DROP
Josh Stewart- I've paid attention to him since THE COLLECTOR came out, and the sequel THE COLLECTION (available on Netflix) and he's only gotten better.
Tessa Ferrer- I would like to apologize to Tessa, I've never known her name until this movie, but I have seen her around, and I've always called her Sandra Bullock 2.0.
Cons:
Seriously, I cried. I don't like it when I cry...in Public.
A little more could've been done with TED (Kirk Acevedo) it was withhttps://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1578829636289095449#editor/target=post;postID=5483552805270294733;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=0;src=postname his plot that things became a muddled.
Over all. Watch it, Last Key was far better than expected. Much better than the 3rd chapter. Its approaching the Month mark as far as being in theaters so you may be able to catch a Matinee to make it worth while. Even if you wait to rent, its worth it. It didn't go for cheap Jump Scares, its not gory. There aren't a lot of Horror franchises that have gotten better by the fourth film. That is not the case with Last Key. I'm interested to see where Whannell will go with this as it is Time Jumping, and there is a shift in Characters. The first was about the family saving their son, the second about attempting to save the family from the father, and trying to save the father. The third, took the focus off of that family, and brought in new characters but Elise and her dynamic duo of nerds stayed the same. We already know what DOOR has been opened to Elise, the question is: will she survive walking through it this time?
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