Insidious The Last Key Review

Insidious The Last Key Full Movie Online Parapsychologist Dr. Elise Rainier faces her most fearsome and personal haunting yet, as she is drawn back to her ghostly childhood home, where the terror began.

Film: Insidious: The Last Key
Sites: Putlocker-9.la
Director: Adam Robitel
Writers: Leigh Whannell (based on characters created by), Leigh Whannell
Stars: Lin Shaye, Leigh Whannell, Angus Sampson 
Country: Canada | USA
Language: English
Release Date: 5 January 2018 (USA)
Filming Locations: Santa Clarita, California, USA


BY WILLIAM BIBBIANI Let’s be honest: there’s no release date that inspires less confidence than the first weekend of January, which has recently given us such horror classics as The Forest, The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death, Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones, Texas Chainsaw 3D and The Devil Inside. Yeesh.

So compared to that crop of… let’s just call it “crop”… Insidious: The Last Key is a fairly adequate supernatural horror thriller, with a few decent scares and another great turn by Lin Shaye as the unassuming but deeply heroic ghostbuster Elise Rainier. But compared to all the other films in the Insidious series, and to other horror films in general, it’s clearly a bit of a letdown.

Insidious: The Last Key Putlocker is the fourth film in the franchise, and the second prequel in a row. The previous entry, Insidious: Chapter 3, revealed how Elise met her comic relief sidekicks Specs (Leigh Whannell) and Tucker (Angus Sampson), and the new film - which isn’t called a “chapter”, a fact which already implies that this is more like a footnote - is all about their first major adventure as an official team.

Elise has only just moved in with her kooky apprentices, but right after they wackily screw up her chandelier (these are the jokes), she gets a portentous phone call from a man who wants her to exorcise his haunted house. The only problem is, it’s the house where Elise grew up as an abused child, and to confront the demon who lives there - a creepy beast with old-timey keys for fingers - she’ll also have to confront her own tortured past.

One of the problems with movies about ghost hunters is that they’re always stepping into the lives of other people, and they aren’t always personally connected to the monsters that they fight. Insidious: The Last Key tries to solve that little conundrum but actually goes too far in the other direction. Most of the other characters in the film, including the new owner of the house, Ted Garza (Kirk Acevedo), are egregiously underdeveloped. They’re either related to Elise, so we’re supposed to care about them, or they’re not, so we don't.

It’s hard to feel suspense for people we don’t know much about, and Insidious: The Last Key compounds that lack of suspense by being yet another prequel. So the only characters we’re invested in - Elise, Specs and Tucker - already have their futures set in stone. Anyone who cares enough to see Insidious: The Last Key probably also cared enough to see the other hit films in this series, so their ending is a foregone conclusion. And foregone conclusions are rarely scary.

Still, just when you think you know exactly where Insidious: The Last Key is going to go, Leigh Whannell’s screenplay does manage to throw in a clever new jump scare, and director Adam Robitel knows how to film them well enough to keep the film eerie and brisk. It’s always a pleasure to see Lin Shaye carry a whole movie, and she once again proves why she’s the Insidious franchise’s true MVP. 

But again, it’s been two prequels in a row now, and it officially feels like the Insidious movies are stalling for time. The Last Key may be somewhat engaging but it’s also sloppy and doesn’t amount to much, when all is said and done, except maybe - and only maybe - to insidiously (ha!) lay the foundation for a new addition to this franchise in the future.