INSIDIOUS CHAPTER 3

Directed by: Leigh Whannell

Starring by: Dermot Mulroney, Stefanie Scott, Angus Sampson, Lin Shaye

Blumhouse Production

I’ve been waiting to see the third sequel of Insidious because I’m curious of what was seen by Elise, the psychic heroin, when she’s been healing a possession young girl from the second movie. I thought chapter 3 would satisfied my curiosity but I found out that the story in this film took different part which didn’t continue the previous, instead moving backward to the time before Elise had to deal the black gown lady that killed her on the haunting of Lambert family.

A girl named Quinn Brenner comes to visit Elise in this house. She said that she missed her mom that already passed away and asked for Elise help to contact with the dead. Before that she did the call by herself but ends up nothing. Elise, who actually finished with supernatural calling, took pity on her so finally Elise decides to help her. But something was attached on Quinn since she’s doing the calling alone, and that demon want to own her. Elise warned her but it all too late.

Quinn experienced weird things, like what happened when she take the audition, she saw someone waving at her from the window and across the street before she got hit by car. The accident makes her paralyze from the waist down and she have to stay alone on her apartment, luckily she have good father, Sean, who want to take care of her safely. 

When he gave her the bell in order to call him if she needs everything, I remember of my grandmother who also got paralyzed because of her old-sickness and she also had the same bell to call peoples if she’s hungry or need to go to the bathroom.

I like the part when Quinn knocked on the wall and got the answered but when she text Hector by phone, turn out that he was not at home and who the hell’s knock her back? It’s cool...

These paranormal occurrences become more and more frequent every time Sean help her daughter, started from just the bell ring and Quinn that move to the upstairs room which finally facing Quinn with different part of her which doesn’t have arms, legs, and face that try to grab her to jump from the window. 

Sean believe that something demonic was haunting Quinn, so he visit Elise and asked for her help but she turned him down. She’s too afraid to handle the demon because of her nightmares and the threat from the spirit of black dress woman who want to kill her if she’s doing spiritual visit to the other side.

Sean finds help to somewhere else and his son suggested that they called bunch of bloggers who acclaims that they can deal with ghost and terminate them. Specs and Tucker put camera on Quinn’s head to monitor her overnight from the electronic equipment which they usually used on their ghost project. 

I smiled when those silly couple found out that there’s no ghost haunt Quinn, instead it was Quinn herself that walk down from her bed...remember, she still paralyzed and her legs wrapped in a cast. I thought to myself that, it must be part when the writer wants to tell us that none of those “ghost hunters” from TV or internet are real.

Then again, the hero came and the audience applause when Elise finally came to Sean’s apartment and decide to help Quinn after she talk to her colleague, Carl, who supported her to be strong because she’s alive and everybody needs her. 

Actually, I don’t agree with Carl’s saying that she’s stronger than the spirit in the dead world because she still live, how come we could deal something that not from our world? For instance, I don’t believe we could defeat shark in the ocean but it’s obvious that I’m stronger than the shark on the land. But so be it, if it makes Elise get motivated to help Quinn, and that’s for the best...

Elise took a journey one more time to the darkness world and met some ghosts that lead her to “The man who can’t breathe” who make Quinn’s half soul as his pet. She fought the evil spirit and takes her soul away. 

It makes me wonder, how the hell she could do that? Isn’t Quinn’s half soul appears to be limbless, so she couldn’t walk? But Elise grabbed her shoulder and take her to run which I think too much for an old lady...hey, I just realized that this movie also put old lady as the main character, similar to The Taking of Deborah Logan at my last review...

This movie had cool ends which make us realized that we don’t missed someone we love even if their death already and it was okay for the rookie director, Leigh Whannell to replace Jamse Wan who couldn’t take part to direct this prequel because of his tight schedule on Fast & Furious. I think I’m going to wait for the next chapter of Insidious...