Insidious: Out Of The Further Review - New Door, Who Dis?

It's been a couple months, so there's a new Insidious in theaters. We are up to number six in this franchise. A franchise that kind of eludes me as far as what the appeal is at this point of the PG-13 scary world where we go into the further and come back out on the other side pretty much unscathed has somehow managed to stay relevant in the eyes of the horror community. And so here we are again, baby, with Insidious out of the further. For me, the first film was solid and then it just kind of went on a pretty safe downhill slope from there until inevitably falling straight into hell at the bottom of the barrel with the last one, the red door or the the lost key or dude, where are my keys or please open the door and let me in. I don't remember the titles. I do know this though. Out of the further, not too shabby. I'm going to tell you about it in a spoiler-free review. Finally, the Lambert family gets a break until we inevitably pull their asses back into the fray once we get to Insidious 10. But until that time, we have a brand new set of folks we're going to pay attention to. The main protagonist this time is the young mother named Gemma, who looks to be a cross between Charlen and three or four other actresses put inside of a generator. Beep beep beep beep. And we get this nice looking lady who has a I don't know if it's a pimple or a beauty mark or something above one of her eyes and I just kept wanting to pop that thing. While she has no ring on that finger, she does have some baggage. As she lives with her daughter Maya in the house she grew up in where her mother killed herself as one does. There's nothing particularly special about Gemma. She's a good mother. She goes to work as a dental assistant. She pays her bills on time. She has a garage full of all of her old stuff from when her mom was alive that she for some reason is hanging on to because she can't let the past go and wants to torture herself constantly. You know, just kind of the stuff we all deal with. And what else? I feel like there's one other thing that kind of gives her a leg up on the competition, short for competition. Oh yeah, she can communicate with the further. And not only that, she can bring stuff into the further and potentially bring stuff out. >> [laughter] >> And that's going to be the plot of the film. You see, there's unsaavory folks inside the further that would love nothing more than to get out. And so, by harnessing the power of Gemma, they're hoping they can grab onto her inside the further and catch a ride to the other side. That rhymed. Why, though? Now, you might be asking yourself, how does Elise Raineier, the one who's been constant in all these films, fit into this picture? The psychic who's been dead for several years now. Well, they find a way to bring her out. They always find a way to dust off those bones and get her into a flick. And I have to say, I enjoy seeing her every time. She is a staple of this franchise, and I hope they can continue to utilize her in some sort of a capacity. Outside of the motheraughter combo, you have a trio of old people that just kind of, you know, wander hither and thither, looking off, smiling creepily, doing that whole thing, doing that whole shtick. And you better believe there's a good amount of tipping of the hat to the films that came before. But I'm more interested in what this new movie has to bring to the table. And what it felt like was a combination of a lot of recent horror films I've seen recently. Like Back Rooms, there's a little section like that. or like some of the gross intense [ __ ] you see in films like Weapons. Insidious is going to sprinkle a little bit of everything around this film. And there are several sections of this film that work incredibly well. I was all in on the scares. Two of my favorites are when Gemma goes inside a pillow fort from hell. And another is when she's cleaning the teeth of a really gross old guy. Like just cleaning the teeth of an old dude alone is chilling to the bone. But in the scenario presented in Cidius, it gets quite a bit worse. Now, one negative I've had with all these movies is that brutal PG13 rating. I think it dampens these films a lot. It keeps them from really pushing to where they should go. But that said, I honestly thought this one was rated R. There is some blood. There are some pretty intense moments where I thought, "Yeah, they finally went R with this franchise." But I was wrong. seems like they're just able to get away with a lot more these days. Probably because we're all desensitized thanks to the world being a flaming pile of [ __ ] You love to see it. There are two other prominent new characters. A cop boyfriend who, you know, he's fine. He's serviceable. Doesn't really bring much to the table. But then there's also the smoking hot tattoo artist named Claire, who I'm going to be honest with you, I've never set foot in a tattoo parlor. This guy is about as clean as pure as humanly possible. So, all I know of tattoo artisans comes from movies and television shows. And so, from what I've gathered over the years, thanks to the stereotyping of such a beautiful community, I think of a tattoo artist as kind of a little rougher around the edges, not the most cleancut looking person. But when I look at Claire, an actress I wasn't familiar with, which I should have been because she stars in the Kissing Booth franchise. We all love the Kissing Booth franchise in the horror community, right? cuz those movies are scary as [ __ ] I just wasn't buying her as a tattoo artist. She was, and if you are a tattoo artist, no disrespect, she was too pretty. She looked like she would be more at home playing an older fun sister on a Disney Plus TV series rather than being a tattoo artist who can communicate with someone on the other side. Another knock against this movie, just a a slight one. I actually thought this movie was 90 minutes going in. I was pretty excited for it, only to find out it was an hour and 45 minutes. Had they just shaved down 10 minutes, even five minutes, I think we would have been cooking really nice here. As it stands, the movie drags a little bit in the third act to the point where I thought, uh, this was this was a pretty damn fun film, but it's starting to like waffle a little bit. Too much exposition is happening. Can we just cut to the chase? As for the lead star, Amelia Eve, very impressive. Nice work by her. She I believed the scares. I believe the 10 situations. She gives it all. She puts it all out there and I'm picking it up. She looked great. She acted great. All around no notes. And as for her daughter Maya, played by Island Austin, her [ __ ] name is Island. That name is awesome. I don't know who names their kid Island, but I want to meet them. And I'm honestly really disappointed that I name my kid such basic [ __ ] If I could do it all over again, my son would be Megatron. Yes, the villain of the Transformers franchise. And my daughter would be Mittens McGee. Mittens McGee Olinger at your service, mate. I gave her an unidentified accent in this scenario, too. Subscribe. I don't want to go too far into the plot details any further than I already have, but um yeah, overall insidious back. We're back. We're we're back, friends. I don't I don't know. Were we ever really there to begin with? one or two decent movies and then a whole pile of [ __ ] and here we are on the other side. Uh, we're kind of doing okay. This one's not an amazing movie by any means. Certainly not in the top five I've seen this year for horror films, but I think it's a good time at the theaters. I had fun. I was engaged. There's a couple intense moments. There's your your traditional jump scares that caught me. I got hit with at least two of them. And they weren't the really obnoxious JUST [groaning and screaming] blasting the music super loud. They certainly hit you with the noise, but uh I don't think it was egregious. I think they did a good job from a production standpoint. I was also really impressed with this one. It looks really damn good. Very pretty. They kept the tasteful bluish hues when you're inside the further. You better believe they got that [ __ ] smoke machine revved up. There is smoke all over this [ __ ] If you're here for the carnage, if you're here for the blood and gore, why? You should know by now that's not what Insidious does. All right, they typically have some scares. They usually have a little bit of heartstrings pulled at, and this is no exception. There's some nicer moments in this thing, and I would say this is one of the better films in the franchise. Not that that's saying much at all, but I would put it right next to number one. It's been a minute since I've seen number one with the Darth Maul villain, but I think it's it's pretty close and I think that's probably good enough. I'll leave it there. Why don't you go ahead and tell me in the comments if you plan on seeing this film, what your thoughts are on the Insidious films in general, how they're still going is is beyond comprehension. Feel free to like the video, sub to the show if you haven't. It's free of charge. It doesn't cost you a dime. This is a service I do uh pro bono basically. I would love to have you stick around, though. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a date with the courthouse to get some names changed. Thanks again for watching the video. 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