Talks for a fourth installment in the franchise began in June 2015, with Whannell saying the next film would take place shortly before the first film.
Starring Lin Shaye, Angus Sampson, Leigh Whannell, Spencer Locke, Caitlin Gerard, and Bruce Davison, the film follows parapsychologist Elise Rainier as she investigates a haunting in her childhood home. It is the fourth installment in the Insidious franchise, and the second in the chronology of the story running through the series. It is produced by Jason Blum, Oren Peli, and James Wan. Insidious: The Last Key is a 2018 American supernatural horror film directed by Adam Robitel and written by Leigh Whannell.
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In terms of timing I think it was just about bringing the franchise full circle, and this does a good job of a handoff from 3, and now we’re back up to current day.
To me, all those things suggest a reason, a raison d’être, a reason to be, a reason to make the movie. "So for me, I always start with 'Does this story need to be told, and is it compelling enough?' If you took the genre stuff out of it, is it compelling enough? And for me, going back to my first film, The Taking of Deborah Logan, I love the idea of a movie couched around an older female lead." "And for Lin, who is so beloved, Elise’s character is so beloved, to have an origin story that talks about how she came to be, where she got power. "I think any time you have a prequel in a horror film, you’re sort of cut off at the knees in terms of tension, because you know - at least off-camera - that these people are going to survive," Robitel explained. For Robitel, knowing the character's ultimate fate proved "very difficult," although it also challenged him to find a reason to justify his film's existence. Elise Rainier has nevertheless become the human face of the franchise, with both Insidious: Chapter 3 and Insidious: The Last Key serving as prequels chronicling Elise's (and Specs and Tucker's) cases before her fateful encounter with the Lambert family.
"I wanted a demon that could physicalize that idea, thematically." Although the character died at the end of the first Insidious film, Dr. This idea of locks and keys, and the idea of a secret within us," Robitel said. "And then I had to meet with Jason Blum, of course, so I was vetted and vetted and vetted and ultimately, with James and Leigh’s blessing, got the job." "I had done some early concept art with a friend named Jacob Hare, and I wanted something that was iconic and that represented the themes of the movie. So from that I pitched this other entity and had some concept art, so between the presentation and the 'lookbook', and this idea for this entity, I think that they really dug it," Robitel said of his initial pitch for directing the film.
"So much of Insidious to me is the red-faced, lipstick demon. Robitel wanted to create "a really iconic demon" for this particular chapter in the horror saga. As already glimpsed in the trailer, a prison appears in the film - the reasons for which we're going to leave out of this piece due to spoilers - but suffice to say the film's visual motif of locks and keys stems from that plot element. During a recent one-on-one chat with IGN, Insidious: The Last Key director Adam Robitel discussed the thinking that went into the demon's distinctive look.