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| Credits | |
| Title: | Insidious: The Last Key |
| Director: | Adam Robitel |
| Writers: | Leigh Whannell |
| Producers: | Jason Blum; Brian Kavanaugh-Jones; Oren Peli; Steven Schneider; James Wan; Leigh Whannell; Bailey Conway Anglewicz; Phillip Dawe; Charles Layton; Rick A. Osako; Couper Samuelson; Jeanette Volturno |
| Composer: | Joseph Bishara |
| Cinematography: | Toby Oliver |
| Editors: | Tim Alverson |
| Production | |
| Distributed by: | Stage 6 Films Entertainment One Blumhouse Productions |
| Released: | January 5th, 2018 |
| Rating: | PG-13 |
| Running time: | 103 min. |
| Country: | USA |
| Language: | English |
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Insidious: The Last Key is an American feature film of the horror genre, with an emphasis on supernatural scares, haunted houses, and ghostly occurrences. It is the fourth installment in the Insidious film series, which began back in 2010. The movie was directed by Adam Robitel with a screenplay written by franchise co-creator Leigh Whannell. It was produced by Stage 6 Films, Entertainment One, and Blumhouse Productions and premiered in the United States on January 5th, 2018.
Synopsis[]
Elise as a child.
Elise Rainier has a dream about her childhood. When she was a pre-teen, she lived in the town of Five Keys, New Mexico with her father Gerald - a prison guard at nearby Dewbend State Penitentiary, her mother Audrey, and her six-year-old brother, Christian. Even at this tender age, Elise had the ability to perceive and communicate with ghosts. While Audrey is protective of Elise's "gift", Gerald resents her for it, and routinely beats her every time she makes a comment about seeing a ghost. Christian is scared of ghosts, so to allay is fears, his mother gives him a toy whistle and tells him to blow it whenever he is frightened and she will come running.
When Elise sees the ghost of a child, she screams. Christian has already mis-placed his whistle. Gerald punishes Elise for her spectral claims by savagely beating her with a cane. He then locks her in the basement. Elise discovers a strange red doorway, which is an entrance to a dark afterlife dimension that she will one day refer to as The Further. A demonic entity dubbed the Keyface demon exits the door and tries to possess Elise. Audrey comes into the room, and the demon kills her by strangling her with power cables from the ceiling. Gerald races downstairs and embraces his wife's body while Elise tearfully cries out, "I'm sorry!"
Elise awakens from her dream. She still has the scars on her back from where her father had beaten her as a child. After greeting her pet retriever, Warren, she receives a telephone call from a man named Ted Garza, who is complaining about his home being haunted. At first, Elise turns him down, until she realizes that he is now residing in her childhood home. Her paranormal investigation partners, Steven "Specs" Fisher and Tucker Croft roll up in their new "Winnebaghost" transport truck ready to help out. Elise tells them that she needs to do this alone, but Specs and Tucker refuse to allow that. They bring Elise to the old Rainier residence.
Uh-oh. It's Keyface!
While investigating the house, Elise finds Christian's lost whistle under their old bunk bed. Stupid kid never thought to look under the bed? However, the ghost of a woman named Anna appears and shouts "Help her!" before taking the whistle from Elise. Elise tells Specs and Tucker that she had seen the spirit before when she was a young girl. She had fled the house in fear of another beating from her father, abandoning Christian.
Elise, Tucker, and Specs go to a local diner where they meet Imogen and Melissa, who are Christian's daughters. Christian walks in, but it is not a happy reunion. He is still furious at Elise for abandoning him to the mercies of their abusive father when they were children. He storms off wanting nothing to do with her. Hoping to repair their relationship, Elise hands Melissa a photo of the whistle, telling her to show it to Christian.
Anna the Friendly Ghost!
When they return to the house, Elise and Tucker discover a hidden room in the basement. Guided by the female spirit, they discover a young woman named Mara Jennings being held prisoner inside, chained to the floor. They learn that Ted Garza is the kidnapper, at which point, he pulls a gun on them and locks them in the basement. Ted goes back upstairs to find Specs. Specs distracts Garza with a pair of light-glasses. When the opportunity presents itself, he pushes a heavy bookcase onto Ted, which crushes his head, killing him.
After police clear the house, Christian and his daughters go inside to find the whistle. Melissa is attacked by the Keyface demon who stabs her in throat with a key-shaped fingernail. Turning the key "locks" Melissa's soul in The Further, leaving her corporeal form comatose.
Imogen Rainier. She's got the Mojo!
Trying to save Melissa, Elise searches the house and discovers hidden suitcases containing belongings of numerous other women who had been held prisoner, including the young woman she had seen as a girl. Elise realizes that like Ted, her father Gerald had also kidnapped women and held them in the secret room. The woman she saw as a girl, Anna, was actually alive then, not a ghost; she was later killed by Gerald. In the present, Elise is ambushed by Keyface and her spirit taken into the Further.
Imogen, who possesses abilities like Elise's, enters The Further and is led by Anna's ghost into a prison realm where Key Face is holding all of the souls he has taken, including Melissa and Elise. Elise realizes Keyface had been controlling both Gerald and Ted, feeding on the fear and hatred generated by the women they kidnapped.
Give Keyface a kiss! He will unlock your heart!
Keyface tries to coerce Elise into hurting her father's spirit as revenge for what he's done. Elise flies into a mad rage and starts beating Gerald until Imogen steps in and succeeds in calming her down. She now refuses to feed Keyface any more hatred. Keyface attacks Elise, but Gerald, having recovered some measure of his true self saves his daughter before being stabbed by Keyface. His spirit dissipates.
Keyface stabs Melissa, causing her physical body to start dying. He then attempts to possess Elise. Elise blows Christian's whistle, which summons Audrey's spirit. Taking up the lantern, Audrey dashes Keyface across the head, which sends him spiraling into the deeper recesses of The Further, banishing him - for now.
Hey! What's Lipstick-Face doing here?!? He's supposed to be in the first movie!
They then open a door and see a young boy, Dalton Lambert. Realizing they opened the wrong door, they leave the door open and find Melissa. Melissa's spirit returns to her body in the real world, saving her life. Elise makes amends with her mother's spirit and Imogen and she return to the real world and reunite with Christian at the Northfolk Hospital. Christian forgives Elise.
In her sleep, Elise has a dream about Dalton and a red-faced demon. She awakens and receives a call from Lorraine Lambert - Dalton's grandmother. Elise had helped her son Josh years earlier, and now Dalton needs the same help, which Elise agrees to provide. [1]
Cast[]
Appearances[]
Main Characters[]
Supporting Characters[]
Antagonists[]
- Bride in Black, Parker Crane (Cameo appearance only)
- Gerald Rainier
- KeyFace demon
- Lipstick-Face demon (Cameo appearance only)
- Michelle Crane (Cameo appearance only)
- Ted Garza
Minor Characters[]
- Dalton Lambert (Archival footage from Insidious)
- E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (Referenced only)
- Ernie
- Foster Lambert (Archival footage from Insidious)
- Joseph Stalin (Photo on a TV program in 1953.)
- Josh Lambert (Archival footage from Insidious)
- Kali Lambert (Archival footage from Insidious)
- Lorraine Lambert (Behind the scenes only)
- Mara Jennings
- Pam
- Quinn Brenner (Referenced only)
- Renai Lambert (Archival footage from Insidious)
- Wayne Fisher (Behind the scenes only)
- Whitfield
Organizations[]
Races[]
Animals[]
Locations[]
Items[]
- Chains
- Christian Rainier's whistle
- Electric chair (Behind the scenes only)
- Hammer (Referenced only)
- Holy Bible
- Metronome
- Revolver
- Skulls
Vehicles[]
Vocations[]
Time Eras[]
- 1920s (Implied)
- 1921 (Wayne Fisher's year of birth)
- 1940s (Implied)
Explicit content[]
Miscellaneous[]
- Bondage
- Child
- Dreams
- Drinking beer
- Flashbacks
- Hangings
- Haunted house
- Head injury
- Hospital
- Hypnosis
- Necromancy
- Nightmares
- Possession
- Prison
- Psychokinesis
- Stabbings
- Throat injury
Notes & Trivia[]
- The tagline to this film is "Fear comes home".
- Principal filming on Insidious: The Last Key began on August 29th, 2016. Shooting concluded on September 26th, 2016. The movie was shot in Santa Clarita, California. [2]
- The movie was first released in Latin America and EMEA on January 3rd, 2018. [3]
- Insidious: The Last Key was released on Blu-ray by Sony Pictures Entertainment on April 3rd, 2018. [4]
Recommendations[]
See also[]
External Links[]
- Insidious: The Last Key at AMG
- Insidious: The Last Key at IMDB
- Insidious: The Last Key at Wikipedia
- Insidious: The Last Key at Box Office Mojo
- Insidious: The Last Key at Themoviedb.org
- Insidious: The Last Key at Rotten Tomatoes
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ Wikipedia:Insidious: The Last Key; See History section for a list of contributors.
- ↑ IMDB; Insidious: The Last Key (2018); Filming & Production.
- ↑ Box Office Mojo; Insidious: The Last Key; Title Summary. All Releases.
- ↑ Blu-ray.com; Insidious: The Lat Key. Blu-ray + Digital HD. Sony Pictures.
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