Insidious: The Last Key

"Fear comes home."

2018 1h 43m EN

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6.3

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34%

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METACRITIC

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5.7

IMDB

★6.3TMDB · 3,297🥫34%Rotten Tomatoes●49Metacritic★5.7IMDB · 79,892

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Synopsis

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Parapsychologist Elise Rainier and her team travel to Five Keys, NM, to investigate a man’s claim of a haunting. Terror soon strikes when Rainier realizes that the house he lives in was her family’s old home.

“Fear comes home.”

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Cast

Lin Shaye
Elise Rainier
Leigh Whannell
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Angus Sampson
Tucker
Kirk Acevedo
Ted Garza
Caitlin Gerard
Imogen Rainier
Spencer Locke
Melissa Rainier
Josh Stewart
Gerald Rainier
Tessa Ferrer
Audrey Rainier

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Adam Robitel
Writers: Leigh Whannell, Frank Forte
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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Grossed $173M — a 17.3× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.

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ERA

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Released 8 years ago.

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CINEMA

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Part of the "Insidious Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Adam Robitel, shot by Toby Oliver. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Joseph Bishara. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Timothy Alverson shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Lin Shaye and Leigh Whannell and Angus Sampson carry the top of the cast.

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8 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Fear comes home.".

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Adam Robitel directs. Toby Oliver behind the camera. Joseph Bishara scores. Timothy Alverson cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Grossed $173M — a 17.3× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.
2Released 8 years ago.
3Part of the "Insidious Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4Directed by Adam Robitel, shot by Toby Oliver. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Joseph Bishara. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Timothy Alverson shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Lin Shaye and Leigh Whannell and Angus Sampson carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "Fear comes home.".
9IMDB entry: tt5726086 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Classified under 16 themes, including "key", "supernatural", "medium", "halloween".
11Released under 16 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Toby Oliver
Original score: Joseph Bishara
Editing: Timothy Alverson
Production design: Melanie Jones
Costume design: Lisa Norcia
Makeup / hair: Todd Tucker
Runtime: 103 min · 1h 43m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $10,000,000
Box office: $172,811,971
Return: 1728% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: Insidious: The Last Key (2018)
Rotten Tomatoes: 34% 🥫 Rotten
Metacritic: 49/100
IMDB rating: 5.7/10 · 79,892 votes
MPAA: PG-13

Awards

6 nominations total

Part of

Insidious Collection

A series of American horror films where the plots are depicted as case files of demonologists. The first two films center on a couple who, after their son mysteriously enters a comatose state and becomes a vessel for ghosts in an astral plane, are continuously haunted by demons of a hellish realm known as the Further until they take from the family what they want most: life. The third film, a prequel, focuses on the same psychic that helped the family this time come to the aid of a young girl who calls out to the dead, and the fourth follows her when her own family becomes haunted. All plots are depicted as case files of demonologists.

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Gimly2018-10-02
★ 4/10
I think that Insidious might genuinely be a franchise best watched in the story's chronological order, rather than the movies' release dates. I can't be certain though, because I'd have to re-watch them all to make sure I'm not making a bad recommendation, and I'm not super keen on doing that seeing as this one and the one preceding it were both kinda... bad. The mythology of Insidious is something I am very interested in, and The Last Key added it to it somewhat. But if this is the sort of quality we can expect from future instalments, then maybe we should never see the resolution of the same cliffhanger ending that they've given us for the last three movies in a row. Final rating:★★ - Had some things that appeal to me, but a poor finished product.

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