Insidious: Fear the Dark

Insidious: Fear the Dark

To put their demons to rest once and for all, Josh Lambert and a college-aged Dalton Lambert must go deeper into The Further than ever before, facing their family's dark past and a host of new and more horrifying terrors that lurk behind the red door.

  • Released: 2023-07-05
  • Runtime: 104 minutes
  • Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thrillers
  • Stars: Ty Simpkins, Andrew Astor, Leigh Whannell, Angus Sampson, Barbara Hershey, Lin Shaye, Ty Simpkins, Lin Shaye, Peter Dager, Hiam Abbass, Rose Byrne, Patrick Wilson, Sinclair Daniel, Andrew Astor, Mary Looram, Juliana Davies, Suki Úna Rae, Jaylin Loveday, Jarquez McClendon, Victorya Danylko-Petrovskaya
  • Director: Patrick Wilson
 Comments
  • jaebeomlim-07315 - 9 June 2024
    Very good film
    Many people say Insidious is a bad horror film, even people on IMDB give it a very low rating. Maybe I think you don't understand the storyline of Insidious. Patrick Wilson's performance is very good and maybe this low rating is more due to the story being too short like "that's all" nothing special from other Insidious films. That's all my review for a 10/10 rating, probably from Patrick Wilson's acting itself, while for the film, like the review above, there's nothing special. As for evaluating visual effects or anything like that, it is very good, but the best visuals are in the film "Insidious".
  • bennyboy5445-827-988215 - 14 February 2024
    Big disappointment
    This was a big disappointment given how much I loved the first 2.

    Poor acting across the board, strange & confusing direction and very much a rushed third act.

    Lost the magic that James Waan brought to the series, felt like a movie rushing through to tie up a story in what could have been a very good ending to a families story.

    Thought that Patrick Wilson direction was interesting in some points, the transition from the real world to the further was visually very appealing but other than that, it felt like there wasn't much care put into it.

    I'm a big Patrick Wilson fan, hopefully his next project is more promising.
  • Bonesnap - 28 January 2024
    Paint it Black
    Look, I get it, many reviewers here have legitimate criticisms of this film and I'm not here to say they're necessarily wrong. Maybe a little bit heavy-handed at times, imo, but my experience was a little bit more positive.

    I always struggled with the Insidious series of films because Patrick Wilson was also in The Conjuring films, and thematically, at least, they're very similar. So, I'd always be thinking, 'Is this the one with...?', and so on. Anyway...

    So, I like the characters. Dalton was suitably dark and tortured, while his roomie Chris was fun and had good dialogue, and she was actually useful to the story, rather than the typical college sidekick who gets bumped off in the second act. Yes, a couple of the jump-scares got my arm hair standing on end. Not the kind of thing that usually bothers me but, 'ha-ha, yup, you got me there...!'

    I liked that the film had a positive, upbeat ending. Call me crazy but I was relieved when there were no last-minute jump scares, although I was certainly waiting for them. That's almost counterculture for modern horror movies.

    When the credits rolled and I heard the song being played, I was instantly taken back to my 20s. Who sang that originally? Oh, yes, Shakespeares Sister, 'Stay'. What a brilliant song, and a very good cover too! If you listen to the lyrics, it's as if it was written especially for this film, they fit so perfectly. Bravo. Well done, there. Although, given the way this story unfurled, I wouldn't have been surprised if the end-credit song was that old 60s Rolling Stones' number, the one that goes, 'I see a Red Door and I want it Painted Black...'