Insidious: Chapter 3

Plot synopsis:
A prequel set before the haunting of the Lambert family. Elise Rainier reluctantly agrees to use her spiritual ability to contact the dead in order to help Quinn Brenner, a teenage girl whose mother Lillith has recently passed. Quinn believes that Lillith has been attempting to reach out to her through the spirit world, so she visits Elise for a reading. Elise is unable to complete the reading, she stops after hearing a demonic presence who threatens to kill her. She warns Quinn that if, "you call out to one of the dead,all of them can hear you."Soon after the reading, Quinn begins to hear noises at night and notices more and more supernatural events occuring. She skips school to audition for a theater academy in New York. Before going onstage, she notices a figure waving to her from the offstage. This throws her audition off, and she stumbles through her lines. Later that night, Quinn meets with her friend Maggie. Maggie complains of her blown audition, and after they have a short conversation, both start feeling better. As they are crossing the street, Quinn sees the same figure waving down the street and stops to look. She is then hit by a car. The car accident leaves Quinn with two broken legs in casts. She is bound to a wheelchair. Her father, Sean, puts her in bed, with a bell to ring if she need him. Later in the night, she hears a knock on her wall. Assuming it is her next door neighbor Hector, she knocks twice. He copies her, and she knocks the "Shave and a Haircut" pattern. He finishes it. Quinn texts Hector, when he reveals that he isn't home. Fearing it was someone else next door, she turns the light off to go to bed. The bell rings itself, scaring her, and her dad comes in.These paranormal occurances become more and more frequent, each time Sean comes in and saves her. The demon is seen more and more frequently: a demonic corpse with a breathing mask, making a deathly rattling noise. Sean finds her thrown from her bed, on an entirely different floor, etc. Eventually, a version of Quinn without a face, hands or feet, is seen following under the demon's command. The odd version of Quinn is found by Sean on the ground outside of a broken window. When Quinn attempts to look over the edge of the window to see, the demon grabs her and tries to pull her down. Sean saves her, but her neck is injured in the process. Sean attempts to get in contact with Elise. She reluctantly comes, but as she enters the spiritual realm she finds herself afraid, and the demon very nearly kills her. She is brought back to living world, terrified, and refuses to continue. Sean has no choice but to call in someone else, a pair of bloggers: Specs and Tucker. Meanwhile, Elise seeks solace from her friend Carl with her same "gift". Carl reassures her that she is much stronger than she believes.After a terrifying experience with Quinn and her demon, the three men admit that there is no doing this without Elise. Elise is now willing to help, this time she is much more powerful and confident. She is easily able to defeat the demon, but as they are escaping, it grabs a hold of Quinn's limbless version. This version of Quinn is revealed to be the half of Quinn's soul that the demon controls. Elise returns to the living world, and tells the group that this part of the battle must be fought by Quinn alone. They all grab ahold of her, but it is shown that she is losing the battle against the demon, as her alternate version gains more of her features. Elise begins to hear a voice in the living world, leading her to Quinn's diary, revealing a letter that Lillith wanted her to see before she graduated. The power from this letter helps guide Lillith to save Quinn and banish the demon, returning her to the living world. Lillith leaves her with some parting words, and the family is finally back together, as Specs and Tucker join Elise to deal with other supernatural disturbances.Elise heads home to find that her husband's spirit has left his sweater on the bed. Overwhelmed with emotion, she holds his sweater close. Her dog then begins barking into the darkness. Elise approaches the area he's barking at, where she discovers the presence of two supernatural entities.

Tags: paranormal, flashback

Review:
I found the characters pretty flat and uninteresting and the story less imaginative than the previous installments.That said, as a stand alone it's not a bad horror film, especially considering it was a first attempt at directing by the guy who usually does the screenplay.
Supernatural horror plenty of weird phenomenon , frights , creepy beings , shocks , and eerie events .A prequel set before the haunting of the Lambert family that reveals how gifted psychic Elise Rainier (Lin Shaye) reluctantly agrees to use her ability to contact the dead and to resolve a ghastly mystery in order to help an adolescent girl (Stefanie Scott) who has been targeted by a dangerous supernatural entity.
The family looks to prevent evil spirits from a realm called The Further .This is how you die .The darkest chapter goes back to the beginning.Insidious: Chapter 3 results to be an adequate and passable prequel , but inferior than former chapters , being filled ,with scary deeds , thrills , chills and lots of scares .
Writer Leigh Whannell stated at the Toronto Film Festival that when he wrote the film he had a list of horror movie clichés posted above him, so he could avoid using them ; he said the first one was to make sure the family moved into a new house once the haunting started .
it was because it was able to mix a decent plot with a truly genuine scare galore coupled with some great classic tones.But in this insidious 3, we get a very predictable, stretched out and mediocre representation of a horror movie.
Fans of the original Insidious (especially fans of Lin Shaye's character, Elise) should find this movie very enjoyable to watch.
I was expecting this movie to have nothing to do with the first and second movie, but I really appreciated that they tied in plot lines from the previous movies.I have to say that I love Lin Shaye's character - I fell in love with her in the first Insidious and it was really great to see her kick some demon ass.
At some points in the movie, I could see classic Japanese horror elements and it works great here.After James Wan left the director position I was skeptical how well Leigh Whannell would do.
Me and wife wife loved the first two installments of the franchise, so we of course were really excited for a third part.Wow, what a let down.Besides just a few hints and pointers that make me say, "Oh, from the first film!" this movie had nothing to add to, or do with the original story.The scares were sub-par.
I few 'quiet for a little bit and than noise and jump' scenes, but nothing to write home about.If you want to see a good horror movie, might as well skip this one and stick with the first two films in the franchise..
Like I always said in all my previous review, "if that movie's genre is horror and it do make us feel horrified, so it's works.
But the help that Elise has reluctantly given Quinn, may have some horrifying consequences, and unluckily, their first meeting has only triggered more supernatural occurrences for Brenner.While this is your ordinary horror flick that teems with relentless hair-rising scares, INSIDIOUS 3 finds depth in its characters' emotional tragedies.
Like i mentioned, i'm not sure how scary the others are but this one will have anyone feeling unsettled at points and even made me jump out of my seat a few times, which was good because jump scares rarely have that effect on me.
No, because it was not one.all-in-all Insidious chapter 3 is an entertaining and tense film which is the right blend of jump scares and atmosphere, still not my favourite horror of the year (that goes to It Follows) but i enjoyed it more than Unfriended and The Woman in Black and liked the emotional twist it gave us.
the actors probably couldn't take serious such a poor plot since the actors are not convincing to me as well, though some of them I like to watch in many other movies, especially Lin Shaye.Funny or scary?
For a six I expect at least a little bit more convincing plot, I don't even expect it to be scary for a six, just to be interesting.When the industry chooses...And for a long time now, not just only about this movie or genre I ask myself - can't they really find some better scenarios, I feel like in Hollywood it's all about having connections to get the money, no matter how low the quality of the material is offered.
All successfully falling into bounds with the film.In the end, "Insidious: Chapter III" was terrifying, offering many well timed scares that gave the audience huge amounts of tension.
Fully making Insidious a franchise, chapter 3 tells the story of how the ghost hunters that connect all three movies first started working together, but don't worry, their origin story is only a small side subject to the haunting of a young girl who made the mistake of trying to contact her mom by herself and ended up attracting the attention of a much darker spirit.
The only good thing about this entire production is the acting.Just like Saw, Leigh Whannell has made the first two films have less of an impact thanks to a terrible and lazy third chapter.
A younger Elsie Rainier, still a gifted psychic, reluctantly uses her power to contact the dead when a young girl is targets by a supernatural entity.Well in Insidious: Chapter 3 we don't have James Wan on the directing chair this time but we do have Leigh Whannell directing this movie and he previous wrote the other Insidious movies and was in the 2004 film Saw playing a character.
Now this isn't very new with a first time director who previously wrote movies, did stunt work, acted and people who did the soundtrack to the movie have taken the directors chairs and most of the time it can come off good, but also bad, and in this one it comes off average at best when it comes to film making and the film itself.Leigh Whannell who has worked with James Wan in every movie that James did and in this movie I think Leigh cough the tone of the other two movies just about right, I mean this movie isn't has scary as the first movie (In my opinion) because the first movie had that unsettling tone and it's brilliantly use of it's shots which are terrifying and sets up the first movie, yeah it can get a bit ridiculous at times even towards the end but still the first half was some of the most best suspense horror film in recent history.
I thought it was better from some from horror movies I've seen so far this year, but the real stand out this movie was Lin Shaye as in this movie she gives a better and strong performance as I can see she really did care for this movie and I better the other cast members did too, but as I said before she was the true stand out of the movie as she did a excellent job.The movie does have it's scary parts and yes some of them involves jump scares, now listen you can hate this and the other two movies but you got to admit these movies take jump scares and at least do something with them and they use jump scares at perfect moments where the jump scare can be effective and actually make you jump with terror.Now for problems: All the positives for the film pretty much ends here as this movie really doesn't do anything new with storytelling and the movie is kind of predictable at times with it's scares and how it's going to end.
The movie doesn't do anything new as I said before and overall it's kind of forgettable, I mean I won't remember this soon as the year comes to a close.Overall Insidious: Chapter 3 isn't a god awful horror film, but it's nowhere near great or even alright, it's stuck in the middle of not so good but not so bad..
Being a fan of the first Insidious movie, I am still very disappointed with Chapter 2 and now after watching it today for the first and most likely last time, with Insidious: Chapter 3.The sequels to Insidious, which was directed by James Wan, took the things I didn't like about the first one (which weren't many, by the way) and made them like an essential part to their stories.
I seriously believe "filmmakers" put in this amount of jump scares in the movie when they run out of ideas to make a real horror film.
A good horror movie is based on atmosphere, not jump scares.There were some things I really enjoyed about Insidious 3, though: Lin Shaye was good, as usual and Steffanie Scott was great as Quinn.
I also loved how they tied in the other two Insidious movies, good job on that.Although I enjoyed some aspects of the movie, it is nothing more than a modern day clichéd horror flick, filled with unnecessary jump scares.
Some of what happens to certain characters or character do come into question by the end titles but this doesn't take away from this fun time at the movies and this was a thrilling ride, I'd recommend strictly to the fans of the other Insidious chapters or just horror junkies alike..
Best horror/supernatural franchise ever is Insidious, it seems though that I am one of the few who puts Insidious 3 in 3rd place behind Insidious 2 (1st place) and Insidious (2nd place) - Whilst Insidious 3 isn't bad, you can tell that James Wan did not direct it, the film for me had a different feeling to it altogether even though 6 of the characters are recurring (Black bride / Lipstick Demon / Specs / Tucker / Karl / Elise), it is almost de-realised, looks familiar but doesn't feel it.I felt too that Leigh Wannell as the writer/directer left it too long to get Specs and Tucker involved, whilst Lin Shea is a gem of the franchise, Specs and Tucker cleverly provide an almost comedic aspect without it being cheesy, to make the storyline more interesting they needed to be in as much as 20 mins earlier.Definitely worth watching if you are a fan, certainly darker than the other two as people have said but I won't be rushing to buy this on DVD when it comes out as I did for the first two installments.
I did like the Elise character, whose been in the previous Insidious movies but we have all seen the Quinn character, many times before in movies in this genre.
In lots of ways Insidious is one of the most unlikely franchise's existing today and unlike many of its other horror franchise counterparts it really is the film series that could, for over three films now Insidious has managed to be both profitable and also most importantly highly watchable and more than a little bit creepy.The first two Insidious tales saw Saw co-creators and Australia's unsung Hollywood hero's James Wan and Leigh Whannell deliver some otherworldly chills without resorting to OTT violence or gore splatter that has sadly been a staple of modern day horror films that think the more blood spilled the more effective the film will be and with this third entry to the franchise Leigh Whannell takes over directing duties from his now box office superstar buddy Wan which sees him do a more than admirable job.A long time player in the modern horror scene, Whannell surely knows a thing or two about what freaks us movie goers out and where the first Insidious scared us with its white faced man and then the second got us with its red faced demon, here in the third chapter which is in fact a prequel of sorts to the events of what has transpired before, Whannell creates a figure almost as scary as Jigsaw himself with the "Man that can't breathe".
A horrible and off putting creation this figure is a large part of the reason why this entry into the series keeps the chills coming and while Whannell relies on the jump scare and silent soundtrack situation quite a lot to make Insidious scary, there's little denying there's more ingenuity here than most other low budgeted horror flicks.There's also a surprising amount of heart thrown into the mix here and while it may come off as cheesy and sap-filled, it's nice for a film of this ilk to throw some emotional resonance into an otherwise highly unrealistic scenario of possessed teens and ghost worlds.While the dialogue can sometimes fall flat and Whannell and Angus Sampson's comical ghost hunters that played large parts in the first films still feel a little out of place, Insidious 3 is a highly watchable and often highly effective piece of horror filmmaking that never tries to outstretch its reach.After three solid films it feels as though the makers of Insidious know exactly what their films are and what they aren't and we as an audience can be thankful for that and now can look forward to what Whannell and his team have in store for us when chapter 4 hopefully eventuates.3 footprints out of 5.
Thought this one is much more jumpy then the first two so if you couldn't handle the other 2 don't see this one cause it has a lot more jump scares.so in the end this was a good movie not as good as the first one for me made better then the second one thought but if you like the first too go and watch this right now thank you..
Im very glad Insidious keeps making you jump scared while watching the movie without getting boring thus the high score..
Rather than go Further with the 'lipstick-face Demon', co-creator Leigh Whannell takes the 'Insidious' franchise to the next chapter by going back in time to explore the origins of the psychic Elise Rainier (reprised by Lin Shaye).
Good for him because, let's be totally honest, in case this particular story was released as a stand-alone horror film - rather than as a sequel (or prequel, whatever) in the "Insidious" series - it wouldn't have stand a change at success.
The movie tries to make up for this loss of tension by ramping up the jump scares, fortunately, it doesn't do a bad job.This series has slowly developed one of the most unlikely stars of any horror franchise: Lin Shaye's Elise, the psychic "woman of a certain age," who in this installment has a journey of her own to go on, in and out of The Further.
Although I do feel as though Elise, Specs and Tucker kind of just rammed into each other and they just decided to call it a team up.To summarize, this movie is as expected OVERALL from the franchise seeing as they now seem like a mindless horror jump scare fest.
However, if you are one who jumps at every thing in a horror movie, then none of this matters and you will still have a good scare.
Actually, from what the ending of Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013) gave, it seemed as if this movie would be the prequel about the ghoul that Elise saw behind the girl in the wheelchair.
I was very sceptical going into this, since i was not that excited after seeing insidious part 2, but this movie delivered the suspense, great jump scares, awesome sound effects and good acting, which is was not expecting at all.Hard to say if this movie was necessary, since Elise was not really a hyped character after all, despite that i think it turned out to be an absolutely necessary part of the franchise.
Enjoyed Lin Shaye's performance here way more than in the first two movies.Fans of the franchise and the genre are not going to be disappointed after watching this.
Some other interpretations that have to be mentioned were Stefanie Scott's who played as Quinn Brenner and Angus Sampson's who played as Tucker and gave a different touch in the movie with his unique way.Finally, I have to say that "Insidious: Chapter 3" is a nice horror movie to watch, it has a simple but decent plot and a good direction.
There are big drawbacks but there are good things here too.First and foremost, 'Insidious: Chapter 3' looks great, especially for horror films released in recent years (too many of which have looked like they were made on the schlocky cheap).
But what I did like about both was that they didn't revolve around a teen protagonist, like so many horror movies.Insidious 3, on the other hand, does just that, presumably to appeal to the lucrative teen market, and it's all the worse for it, with a pretty but otherwise unremarkable lead in Stefanie Scott, and lots of mechanical scares (despite director Leigh Whannell's insistence to the contrary, claiming that he has stripped the franchise back to basics and concentrated on suspense and atmosphere).The predictable plot goes something like this: teenager Quinn Brenner (Scott) contacts psychic Elise (Lin Shaye) after her own failed attempts to contact her dead mother.
Actually, if you are a long time fan and follower of the horror genre, then chances are very likely that you have already seen numerous movies with a storyline similar to the one told in "Insidious: Chapter 3".The strongest side to the movie is the cast and the performances that they put on.
Personally, I would have liked to have had a bit more grotesque and scary appearance on the entities, just for shock effect, as there was little to be scared about with a frail man walking around with a breath mask."Insidious: Chapter 3" is not the most outstanding or entertaining of the movies in the franchise so far.