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Insidious: The Last Key

5 January 2018English1h 43m

What critics are saying

Critical reception for 'Insidious: The Last Key' is largely negative, with most reviewers finding it a formulaic and unscary entry in the franchise that fails to leave a lasting impact.

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Parapsychologist Elise Rainier and her team travel to Five Keys, N.M., 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.

Critic Consensus

Critical reception for 'Insidious: The Last Key' is largely negative, with most reviewers finding it a formulaic and unscary entry in the franchise that fails to leave a lasting impact. Lin Shaye's screen presence and performance is the most consistently cited positive, with a few reviewers also noting the film's competent cinematography. Common criticisms include heavy reliance on genre clichés, repetitive horror tropes, and a narrative that loses steam as it progresses, disappointing even fans of the series.

8 rated reviews · 2 positive · 1 mixed · 5 negative

Praised: Lin Shaye's screen presenceCriticised: Repetitive clichés, weak scares

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Critic Reviews (8)

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Mihir FadnavisTop Critic· Firstpost
6.0
Final installment in this horror series is frightening in a satisfyingly creepy way...
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Renuka Vyavahare· Times Of India
6.0
...the most cliched and inconsequentially descriptive film of the lot. In the end, it simply exhausts you more than scaring the living daylights out of you and that isn't a good sign.
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IANS· Sify
5.0
Overall, what starts off as an intriguing film ends up as an insipid horror tale that leaves no impact.
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4.0
Alas! Another shot of a terrifying experience lost in the dark dungeons of repetitive Hollywood horror genre.
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Deccan Chronicle Team· Deccan Chronicle
4.0
'Insidious: The Last Key' fails to live up to 'Insidious' franchise's high standards, you can watch it only if you are a fan of horror films in general and looking for some thrills. The ardent fans of the franchise will be disappointed.
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FullyHyd Team· Fully Hyderabad
4.0
Ultimately, the movie stays true to the franchise roots and refuses to make logical sense, but powered by Jason Blum's genius production and marketing strategies, Lin Shaye's performance and an execution that isn't as bad as Friday The 13th The Final Chapter or The Nightmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master or The Return Of Michael Myers, it ensures that you are in for a decently good time at the movies.
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Subhash K Jha· SKJBollywoodNews
3.0
The  performances are purely functional,  with  the veteran Lin Shayegrimacing  really hard to convey intensity. The rest  of the cast  doesn't even try. The only serious aspect of this fatigued  horror film  is  the cinematography  by Toby Oliver which is sinister and sleek, suffused in  dark dystopian hues that the  films's mood  and tenor just cannot watch.
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Umesh Punwani· KoiMoi
3.0
Lin Shaye is good with her presence and as we all know she has been the best part of this franchise since the first installment.
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Release Date
5 January 2018
Runtime
1h 43m
Language
English

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