If this is a battle of fright and affection, one would find himself atop the middle of an emotional seesaw bar, desperately trying to fight the creeps, while also fighting a strange cathartic surge of emotions.
This is what watching “Insidious 3,” feels like. There’s more horror in it, but there’s more than enough poignant soul delivered to tug at the heartstrings.
The movie follows the gifted psychic Elise Rainer (Lin Shayne). She’s reluctant to use her spiritual gift, but she agrees nonetheless to contact the dead, when Quinn Brenner (Stefanie Scott), a teenage girl who thinks her dead mother is trying to contact her, comes to her for help. But the help that Elise has reluctantly given Quinn, may have some horrifying consequences, and unluckily, their first meeting has only triggered more supernatural occurences 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.
The narrative is well-constructed and the characters storylines are well-knitted and beautifully crafted, that in spite of those countless sudden appearances of malign spirits, and all the screams that follow, it isn’t hard to connect with the entirity of the story and feel the emotional outburst of the characters. The endless pursuits of supernatural spirits and escapes from them, warrant a thrilling creepy experience.
But as it gets even more intense, the film keeps its heart in tack, and in its climax, it delivers one of the most heart rupturing scenes one could see in a horror movie. The final moments are also heartfelt and impossible not to shed tears for.
This film is no doubt a satisfying entry to the Insidious franchise, but there’s more to its being a safisfying horror moview that makes it a stand-out. While “Insidious 3” delivers solid doses of creeps and scares that might follow you in your sleep, it imparts an overwhelming warm-hearted drama, that is impossible not to haunt your cerebral senses.
RATING: 8/10 (JE)
