Interesting story base, weak plot

Hailey 2021-12-27 08:01:52

Because the previous general review was too long, the fourth one was divided.

Let’s start with a brief introduction to the plot. This story is actually about the psychic Elise itself, a sad past that has been covered in dust for many years. When she was a child, Elise lived with her parents and brother in a prison remodeled house. The prison brutally killed the imprisoned prisoner with electric shocks. After death, the prisoner turned into a resentful spirit with great resentment, hoping to find the key to open the door to "imprisoned" himself. One of the resentful spirits turned into a child playing with the childhood psychic siblings. Elise told her father that there was a ghost, and her father didn't believe it and put her in confinement. Under the temptation of the resentful spirit, the childhood psychic opened a door in the basement and released the ogre. The demon killed her mother and manipulated her father to imprison and kill many girls in order to complete his resentment towards the world. . The girl psychic thought her father was abnormal and ran away from home and never returned.

Back to the present, a person moved to her childhood house, encountered a weird incident and sought her help, the psychic considered again and again that he still wanted to solve the things that year. So the psychic went on the path of childhood, returned to her former home, and occasionally met her former brother and his two daughters. The younger brother was unwilling to forgive her for running away from home. However, it was discovered that the current homeowner had also imprisoned the girl, and after the discovery of the psychic, he locked the psychic [in fact, it was also controlled by the same ogre]. One of the teammates defeated the owner, and the group went to the police station for investigation. At the same time, the younger brother of the psychic returned to the house with his daughter in order to find the whistle his mother had given him. He did not expect a daughter to be sent to the hospital by Li Guigou. After finding out, the psychic returned to his former home to save his niece, only to discover that another niece also had this kind of out-of-body physique. Another niece chose to stay and help the psychic. While the psychic went to another world under the temptation of the devil, he mistakenly believed that the father killed his mother and beat his father’s soul. At this time, the niece also came to another world to help the aunt get the truth. Knowing that his father was manipulated by the devil, he and The demons fight. In the process, the father's soul was wiped out in order to save his daughter, and the psychic and niece were also at stake. At a critical moment, the psychic blew the whistle of the mother who was thrown by the niece. After the mother appeared, she defeated the demon and sent her daughter and granddaughter back to the real world. After the psychic returned, he returned the whistle to his younger brother, reconciled with his younger brother, and the niece recovered.

Finally the phone rang and someone said that their child was unconscious and asked for help-to undertake the first plot

I was very looking forward to the fourth part at the time, on the one hand because of the series itself, and another reason is that the stills are attractive enough. I mentioned earlier that 1 and 2 create a horrible world of weird and unbelievable horror. In this world, you may happen to all unexpected things and reach all unexpected time and space. The villain in the fourth stills is set to have a finger. The resentful spirits on the various keys are similar to the setting of the master key, and have to be reminiscent of a lot in the framework of the horror world of this series. I originally planned to explore and portray this villain as the main creative club, and re-pick up the big frame of the first two films, and give full play to the role of the key to the wraith in the world of horror, to reach more weird time and space, but in fact it is. In the end, I didn’t see the greater effect of these keys, and they were completely wasted. On the contrary, the keys seemed to have a great effect in the world. It can be seen in the section of boss dealing with the niece of the spirit medium that one key can seal the sound, and one can seal the sound. Ecstasy. What’s more deadly is that not only does this seemingly most brilliant key setting have no effect in another world, the entire villain’s setting only stays in the shell, which is almost the least soulless character among all the horror characters in the entire series. The red-faced ghost in the first part is the same, but I said earlier that the red-faced ghost in the first part is just a foreshadowing, not as a villain in this part. The villain in this movie not only has no account of the terrifying life history, he hasn't seen any special skills, he doesn't know what motives are, and he doesn't even have any scary things in every appearance.

The film itself has a big shortcoming, that is, the complete shift of its center of gravity. In fact, taking the police station as the dividing line, the scary places in the early stage are not unsatisfactory. Unfortunately, the most scary places in the whole movie are almost not related to this villain. I even think that the childhood psychic and her brother were in the room at the beginning of the movie. The drama and the wraith of the woman who was imprisoned during his lifetime are the most frightening, because the sound effects have not lost the chain, and are enough to let you lift your heart. The scaring technique is not low-level, and the subsequent drama is somewhat cliché or not good enough. For example, opening those suitcases will obviously bring out scary bridges. However, whether the imprisoned female ghost appears on the scene, or the scary scene in the police station later, it is not really a threatening scene. Even if the audience will be scared, they will not be afraid of the protagonist. In particular, this villain has almost only scary appearance. I mentioned that the success of the second part is absolutely inseparable from her portrayal of the villain's role. Both in his life and after his life, he has portrayed and brilliance, and this movie is really supposed to The villain who put in energy didn't put much effort into it.

Except for the unsuccessful villain setting, the horror world of this movie is reduced to chicken help. It is no different from the normal underworld setting, and it does not explain the huge effect of the keys after opening the door. The only fragment that appeared in which the not-so-savvy psychic grandmother and her childhood were in the same horror world also reminded me of the first two more sophisticated similar butt-connected fragments, because before the movie, the childhood psychic grandma rolled her eyes and crossed to the other. The world did not leave people with any suspense, unlike the sudden sounding of Men Ling in the first part and the fragments of the childhood male protagonist in the second part, who gave directions and the door opened automatically, which left people with questions at first. Answer later. In addition to the main villain, there are some other wraiths characters in the previous movies that enrich the horror world system. This movie completely relies on an unsuccessful villain to prop up the entire world. The result is of course boring and very boring. , The look and feel is also greatly reduced.

In fact, it is very pleasing to choose this movie in terms of the frame of the story. The story returns to the psychic grandma herself. This old past has a strange and heavy feeling, and it happened in the most pleasing character in the whole series. , Of course, will increase the audience’s curiosity and want to know what happened to this character who has settled the difficulties for others along the way. However, there are a series of problems in the logic of this movie. The motivations of many characters are unreasonable and unclear; and the reversal of the plot is not polished enough to give people a very abrupt feeling. They are all too sudden and sloppy, neither the character change nor the truth change has been refined and polished, far inferior to the reversal of "Call of Souls 2", and the reversal of "Call of Souls 2" has enough foreshadowing. It is reasonable enough, and the way the truth is revealed is not low-level. This movie does not have a strong main framework, it has become the slowest and most non-climactic one, and the final method of defeating the boss is also full of loopholes.

This film is also intended to extol maternal love. I will not mention whether the mother's way of defeating the villain is too simple. The first half of the film's ability of the psychic is obviously improved until the underworld, but it has become the weakest setting in the entire series. However, in the early stage, she added an ability that was not available in the second part of the first part of the later time-predicting the future, which also affected the continuity of the series. However, in another world, it seems that they want to call their mothers to save their daughters. However, the line setting after they met was really too unsuccessful. Apart from the superb acting skills of the psychic grandmother Lin Shaye, there was almost nothing to see. This mother and daughter The love is also unbelievable. The state of the mother who died in her childhood after saving her daughter more than half a century will not be shown in the movie. This aspect is totally unresonable. Moreover, the lack of characters makes the film too thin, and the psychic grandmother always makes this film almost reduced to a major heroine. Finally, I would like to mention that since the heroine and niece are both talented, it makes sense that if the mother is also set as the talent owner, the final mother will defeat the boss.

ps: My opinion on the resentful spirit. This resentful spirit has two purposes: 1. It expresses his resentment towards being imprisoned before his death by operating the male owner to capture the girl and abuse the prisoner. In fact, I think this monster should be a collection of resentment spirits in the prison back then, not a single soul. The key of each finger may represent the key of a cell. Once you get all the keys, you can open all the torture and die. The resentment has become more severe. The heroine's father should be the prison manager of the year, so the resentful spirit hates it very much. 2. Get the soul imprisoned directly. This higher level needs to be done in person. It is an interest in the soul, not a physical torture. Whether it is a psychic or her niece, in fact, the soul is different from a normal person, so he must Get it, and there are old grievances. 3 The key function of this wraith spirit is actually different for each one, but the movie was not shot well. There is one that takes the soul and the other that takes the sound. Before, the voice of the little boy should be used for the wraith. This is the same as "Death. "It should be the same.

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Extended Reading
  • Sam 2022-04-21 09:02:51

    This movie still proves a truth, maybe it's just right to be called Mom!

  • Antonio 2021-12-27 08:01:52

    The stories of the entire series are all round. This one focuses more on family affection than horror. Although the fineness of the script is not as good as Latent 2, it is not inferior to the others. It is estimated that there will be no more sequels. It is very possible to make an extended film, you can write on the origin of Red Gate, or you can make a series~

Insidious: The Last Key quotes

  • [first lines]

    Prison Officer: Lights Out!

  • [last lines]

    Elise Rainier: [answers the phone] Hello?

    Lorraine Lambert: I'm so sorry for calling so late. My name is Lorraine. You helped my family a long time ago when my son was just a boy. And now the same thing is happening to my grandson.

    Elise Rainier: Dalton.

    Lorraine Lambert: How did you know his name?

    Elise Rainier: It's what I do... Tell Josh I'll be there in the morning.

    Lorraine Lambert: Thank you.

    Elise Rainier: Good night.

    Lorraine Lambert: Good night.