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The Insidious Franchise - Worse Than You Remember

MrHunteru

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James Wan is one of the most influential horror directors of all time, and one film of his completely changed the landscape of supernatural flicks for the next 10 years: Insidious. The film was a giant box office and commercial success, spawning a 6 movie long franchise. Despite the love it may seem to get, the franchise is actually pretty bad. Whether its convoluted, poorly written, or just too jumpscare heavy; a franchise that was once so beloved gets mocked a lot nowadays. How did this happen? What changed to make Insidious go from a flag ship horror series to a mockery of the very genre it promoted? Today, we're going to go through every Insidious movie, forming a timeline, explaining the ghosts and the Further all in an attempt to answer: what went wrong?

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Timestamps for your viewing pleasure:
0:00:00 - Insidious: Success turned Joke
0:02:39 - Insidious (2010)
0:14:05 - Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013)
0:28:08 - Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015)
0:41:13 - Insidious: The Last Key (2018)
0:55:10 - Insidious: The Red Door (2023)
1:10:39 - Insidious: Out of the Further (2026)
1:22:40 - Reorganizing the tier list
1:23:25 - Insidious Timeline
1:23:47 - Closing

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This video features footage from Insidious, Insidious Chapter 2, Insidious Chapter 3, Insidious the Last Key, Insidious the Red Door, and Insidious Out of the Further. All rights go to Blumhouse and Atomic Monster.

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20 Comments

@MrHunteru Creator 1 month ago (edited) Pinned

Friends, YouTube did NOT want this video to go up. There is a chance it has to be reuploaded in the next few days so just be prepared if that happens. Anyways, Insidious is a series I grew up loving ever since I saw the first one, but a franchise I re-evaluated my thoughts on after The Red Door. This is the first video in a long time where I tried to insert some of my humor into it, but I was admittedly nervous and dialed it down still lol. If you guys like it, let me know!

Edit: I guess I need to clarify or address the jokes about the ghosts just being white people. I thought it was really funny while watching the movies that the franchise really pushes what is pretty normal looking white people as something that's terrifying, especially so in the second film. Like what's so scary about them over the actual demons? I made a joke about it to some of my friends and they all thought it was banger and I figured it would be funny to include in here, but there has been a lot of people who seem to be offended about it - which is surprising to me? I mean, I am a white guy poking fun at "scary" white people. Regardless, I wanted to set the record straight that it's intended to be a joke in case it isn't coming off as one. My delivery is for sure a little flat lol

I'm sorry to anyone that's gotten upset about it!

Edit edit: for some reason my insane ass said It Follows during Insidious 3 as a comparison, when that could not be more wrong. I was thinking of the Invisible Man and just for some reason never realized, so I never corrected myself

@GehirnDonut 1 month ago

This whole series basically rode on the whole "yeah we made that Darth Maul jumpscare".

@TindraSan 1 month ago

new tongue twister just dropped: "Elise's nieces eat reese's pieces"

@CharleneOrtizTraining 1 month ago

I'm so glad you mentioned how unrealistic it was that they could afford a house like that in California on a teacher's salary. I remember thinking that the first time I saw this movie. 🤣

@one_for_one 3 weeks ago

how tf are they gunna try and make the big twist of the 6th movie in this franchise a reveal that psychic powers are heritable. weve known that since the literal first movie actually, thanks.

@94beans 3 weeks ago

the red door was so unmemorable that I'm just now finding out about it

@redshellman 1 month ago

So.. Fun Story about this movie. I saw the first movie in a theatre with a buddy when it first came out. It was overcast that day, and I swear this is true, but the power went out right as the Red Face demon was on screen. It shocked everyone! But.. then it was ruined because when the power came back on, the screen was froze with that face. And at first it was scary, but after a while, everyone got a look at it, and it just became goofy and cartoonish. Now I can't look at the series the same way. XD.
Great video.

@thelemonwho 1 month ago

You're telling me a VHS filter could've saved all those deleted videos over the years?

@treddo-alp 3 weeks ago

"and with the series having that many films under its belt, you would think it must be a really good franchise."
No! I would never think that! Especially in horror!

@wandawonderer3991 1 month ago

Elise is the best supporting character with main character energy in that franchise 😂 killing her on the first film was a huge mistake. The actress is so good she carried the franchise despite the bad writing. They kept overriding what they wrote, patching plotholes, create more holes and just leave us with more questions. 😂

@SomeJohndoe 1 month ago

I like how the bride in black was role playing as josh doing husband duties😂

@robintauber9994 1 month ago

The adding continuity errors just tells me that they didn't expect to have to do sequels so they were doing patch-jobs of the script as they go. They see what people liked and built on that for each sequel. It just shows me, they don't have a plan.

@ectoplasm 1 month ago

Insidious is just a rehash of Poltergeist. Like, even the "Further" is just the Other Side from Poltergeist.

@JojokimVT 1 month ago

Am I the only one who thinks that Parker’s mother looks alot like Lady Dimitrescu from Resident Evil Village? Or I guess it’s the other way around

@ooziepro 2 weeks ago

from "astral projecting" to "teleporting an entire god dayum house into another dimension" boy o boy did this shii jump the shark lmfao

@EriksBlue 2 weeks ago (edited)

watched all the movies with my friends like a month ago, our big issue is that there are no stakes because everything after the first film is a flashback and we know who lives. And the plot repeats itself ALOT.

@nuclearseahorse 3 weeks ago

35:13 "come on bitch" that scene killed meeee it was camp!!!!! Elise is so camp i love her

@LadySilence 1 month ago

I keep getting this and the conjouring confused

@DezzmanX 3 weeks ago

It was really weird for me immediately seeing how bad the franchise was, and having to wait for everyone else to catch up

@robintauber9994 1 month ago

With insidious 2, yes, the bride in black was actively being the problem but note that he was only continuing to pose as a female because he couldn't shake off his mom's influence. When his mom got banished, the pressure was off. He could breathe because she wasn't in his head anymore. Basically, he could rest because banishing his mom gave him closure. Alyse Opting to come back reminds me of the concept of a bodisatvah (sp?) in Buddhism. An enlightened being that sticks around to help people still struggling with life.