![]() While the Insidious films are scrupulously conventional contemporary horror features in most respects, there’s something bracingly incongruous about the way that the saga fits together. ![]() In other ways, however, Chapter 3 is insolently its own thing, a standalone tale that contains elements of both a ghost story and demonic possession tale. Insidious: Chapter 3 mixes things up yet again, as it is not a sequel but a prequel, antedating the Lambert haunting that was the focus of previous installments by the weirdly ambiguous span of “a few years.” The new film echoes the first Insidious in some crucial respects: Once again medium Elise (Lin Shaye) is called upon to save a young person who is being parasitized by an entity from the spirit world, known in the series’ mythology as the Further. ![]() Where some horror sequels are content to replicate the original film’s story beat-for-beat with mild changes in window dressing, Insidious: Chapter 2 instead scurried off in pursuit of one of its predecessors’ unanswered questions, splitting into two parallel plots and delving into some daft, disturbing places. Whatever its merits and flaws, the franchise certainly hasn’t relied on a formula. Now that three Insidious features have been released into the wild (so far), it’s apparent that the most eccentric aspect of the series as a whole is how defiantly different each chapter is from its fellows, at least in terms of the story structure and rhythm.
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