The Red Door picks up years after Insidious: Chapter 2. Josh’s mother has passed away and he has separated from Renai and the kids. His brain has gotten foggy and he has trouble connecting with Dalton who is on his way to college. Their relationship devolves further when they say mean things to each other when Josh drops Dalton off at his dorm.
Dalton manages to find one friend, a sarcastic outgoing girl who discovers his creepy gift for traveling into The Further. Josh struggles with everything in his life and finds out who his father was and how he died. Both Josh and Dalton need to find a way to remember the past and repair their relationship if they are going to survive.
There was a lot of talk about how this film doesn’t know whether to be a family drama or a horror film, but I feel like people weren’t paying attention in the other installments of the series. Often, these entities latch on to people who are stressed or broken in some way, and in the case of Dalton and his father, they both were able to travel outside their own consciousness and stumbled across them. So, it makes sense that after everything this family has been through that these demons or entities would be trying so hard to get into Josh and Dalton’s bodies. They had already made the connection and the two had struggled with their relationship so much that it was only a matter of time.
For me, it is the struggles that Josh and Dalton face with each other and how they overcome it that is the strength of this film. Without Elise to carry them through (she died in a previous film), they have to find their own way to resolve their issues.
The red door itself really is a metaphor for their relationship. An obstacle that Dalton paints with increasing detail as it becomes a bigger barrier between he and his father. In finally closing it, he is able to find the forgiveness he needs to move forward and Josh is able to really save is son after having carried the guilt of the events of Chapter 2 in which an entity possessed him and used his body to attack the family.
I’m a huge fan of the Insidious series, and I think Patrick Wilson did a fine job closing this up. He is the heart of it. I hope we see more of him as a director.
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The Red Door picks up years after Insidious: Chapter 2. Josh’s mother has passed away and he has separated from Renai and the kids. His brain has gotten foggy and he has trouble connecting with Dalton who is on his way to college. Their relationship devolves further when they say mean things to each other when Josh drops Dalton off at his dorm.
Dalton manages to find one friend, a sarcastic outgoing girl who discovers his creepy gift for traveling into The Further. Josh struggles with everything in his life and finds out who his father was and how he died. Both Josh and Dalton need to find a way to remember the past and repair their relationship if they are going to survive.
There was a lot of talk about how this film doesn’t know whether to be a family drama or a horror film, but I feel like people weren’t paying attention in the other installments of the series. Often, these entities latch on to people who are stressed or broken in some way, and in the case of Dalton and his father, they both were able to travel outside their own consciousness and stumbled across them. So, it makes sense that after everything this family has been through that these demons or entities would be trying so hard to get into Josh and Dalton’s bodies. They had already made the connection and the two had struggled with their relationship so much that it was only a matter of time.
For me, it is the struggles that Josh and Dalton face with each other and how they overcome it that is the strength of this film. Without Elise to carry them through (she died in a previous film), they have to find their own way to resolve their issues.
The red door itself really is a metaphor for their relationship. An obstacle that Dalton paints with increasing detail as it becomes a bigger barrier between he and his father. In finally closing it, he is able to find the forgiveness he needs to move forward and Josh is able to really save is son after having carried the guilt of the events of Chapter 2 in which an entity possessed him and used his body to attack the family.
I’m a huge fan of the Insidious series, and I think Patrick Wilson did a fine job closing this up. He is the heart of it. I hope we see more of him as a director.
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