I enjoyed the original Insidious. Part 2 not so much. But what I did like about both was that they didn't revolve around a teen protagonist, like so many horror movies.
Insidious 3, on the other hand, does just that, presumably to appeal to the lucrative teen market, and it's all the worse for it, with a pretty but otherwise unremarkable lead in Stefanie Scott, and lots of mechanical scares (despite director Leigh Whannell's insistence to the contrary, claiming that he has stripped the franchise back to basics and concentrated on suspense and atmosphere).
The predictable plot goes something like this: teenager Quinn Brenner (Scott) contacts psychic Elise (Lin Shaye) after her own failed attempts to contact her dead mother. When it becomes apparent that Quinn has attracted the attention of a malevolent demon, Elise is called in to help, along with ghost hunters Specs and Tucker (Whannell and Angus Sampson).
Shadowy figures lurking in the background; unexplained noises; gnarly hands reaching from the darkness; and Elise head-butting the Bride in Black: it's all very predictable and occasionally laughably stupid.
Insidious 3, on the other hand, does just that, presumably to appeal to the lucrative teen market, and it's all the worse for it, with a pretty but otherwise unremarkable lead in Stefanie Scott, and lots of mechanical scares (despite director Leigh Whannell's insistence to the contrary, claiming that he has stripped the franchise back to basics and concentrated on suspense and atmosphere).
The predictable plot goes something like this: teenager Quinn Brenner (Scott) contacts psychic Elise (Lin Shaye) after her own failed attempts to contact her dead mother. When it becomes apparent that Quinn has attracted the attention of a malevolent demon, Elise is called in to help, along with ghost hunters Specs and Tucker (Whannell and Angus Sampson).
Shadowy figures lurking in the background; unexplained noises; gnarly hands reaching from the darkness; and Elise head-butting the Bride in Black: it's all very predictable and occasionally laughably stupid.