Insidious: The Red Door
Screen Gems | Release Date: July 7, 2023 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
45
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 23 Critic Reviews
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6
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13
Negative:
4
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
NMEAlex FloodJul 7, 2023
There’s more to Wilson’s film than dread though. In between the terror, the newbie director makes time for actual plot. Read full review
75
Film ThreatBenjamin FranzJul 7, 2023
Insidious: The Red Door has some wonderful jump scares, some very creepy sequences, and it gives new terror to the prospect of receiving an MRI. This is an excellent summer horror film, and if you like having the bejesus scared out of you, Insidious: The Red Door will provide about 2 hours of entertainment. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayJul 7, 2023
Having two main characters suffering from hauntings separately works against this movie’s narrative momentum, but it does allow Wilson and Teems to bounce from scare to scare, without much setup — or respite. Read full review
70
IGNTom JorgensenJul 6, 2023
Insidious: The Red Door is a satisfying conclusion to the Lambert family’s long nightmare journey into The Further, even if it starts to rely too heavily on jump scares by the end. Read full review
67
ColliderNate RichardJul 7, 2023
Insidious: The Red Door might not be the scariest installment in the franchise, but it feels a lot more human than the others before it. The character moments end up feeling more effective than some of the film's big set-pieces and, while that may bug some genre purists, those who have stuck around since the first film released over 10 years ago will be pleased. Read full review
67
The PlaylistSimon ThompsonJul 6, 2023
While it may be time, and somewhat bittersweet, to say goodbye to the Lamberts and their parapsychological baggage, this is a well-conceived and impressively executed finale to the saga. It also proves that Wilson has what it takes both behind and in front of the camera. It’s a little scary how multitalented he is. Read full review
60
SlashfilmChris EvangelistaJul 7, 2023
Insidious: The Red Door closes the book on the Lambert family and delivers more than a few thrills and chills. It doesn't reinvent the wheel, and it doesn't really add a whole lot to the series as a whole. Read full review
55
Paste MagazineMatt DonatoJul 7, 2023
Screenwriter Scott Teems reflects on Leigh Whannell and James Wan’s Insidious franchise by showing the Lamberts after a decade’s worth of otherworldly traumatic repression, which disappointingly gets away from what’s otherwise made this series so sinisterly supernatural. Read full review
50
The AtlanticDavid SimsJul 13, 2023
It seems some cheap frights were slipped into a narrative otherwise aiming for deeper emotional distress. That’s where everything gets a bit convoluted, and less enjoyable. Read full review
50
Original-CinThom ErnstJul 10, 2023
There are enough dream sequences infiltrating the action to confuse even devoted fans, while Insidious newbies and part-time dabblers are left to wonder when Freddy Krueger might arrive on scene. Wilson’s first stab at direction is not entirely a failure, but neither does he push the franchise to any new heights. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleJenny NulfJul 10, 2023
Similar to Wan’s The Conjuring universe, Insidious has long overstayed its welcome, reaching the point where its spark has quelled and there’s nothing interesting buried within these characters anymore. We have reached the end of the Further. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comKatie RifeJul 7, 2023
Callbacks to other “Insidious” films are half-hearted, and “The Red Door” seems to give up on trying to make all of the pieces fit after a while. What does work are a handful of scares in the film’s first half. Read full review
50
The Associated PressMark KennedyJul 7, 2023
If the “Insidious” franchise is your jam, by all means go and see the original Fab Four of the Lambert family battle hollow-eyed demons for perhaps the last time. But for everyone else, why not let the past stay in the past? Read full review
50
VarietyOwen GleibermanJul 7, 2023
For a first-time director, Patrick Wilson doesn’t do a bad job, but he’s working with tropes that have already been worked to death. It’s time to close this carnival of souls down. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubLeigh MonsonJul 7, 2023
Insidious: The Red Door is not a broken movie by any means. It’s a comprehensible experience, though perhaps less so if viewed as a standalone feature instead of the presumably final chapter of a continuing narrative. But Wilson was tasked with telling a pretty dull story, both in terms of its visceral horrors and its thematic ambitions. Read full review
42
IndieWireDavid EhrlichJul 7, 2023
Spread thin between that father-son drama and the jolts intended to galvanize it, Wilson’s creaky debut underdelivers on both. Read full review
40
TheWrapTomris LafflyJul 7, 2023
Despite a worthy message about the importance of embracing one’s past—blocking your trauma is no fruitful way to deal with it—“Insidious: The Red Door” still fizzles in its final stretch, becoming an over-plotted labyrinth of loose ends that drags more than it entertains. Read full review
40
The New York TimesJason ZinomanJul 7, 2023
The leaden screenplay would be easier to overlook if there were more spooky sequences. Read full review
40
EmpireHelen O'HaraJul 7, 2023
Franchise fans will enjoy seeing the Lamberts again, but newcomers will be baffled by the under-developed story and nonplussed by the over-familiar scares. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreJul 10, 2023
One sure way to gauge a horror film’s success is whether it shocks and shakes you, makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up. That never happened for me, here. For all the interesting performances and promising characters in this one, I think the actor/director and actor’s director lets us off the hook entirely too easily. Read full review
38
The Daily BeastNick SchagerJul 7, 2023
Its characters may be desperate to remember the things they’ve willfully suppressed, but as this dud confirms, some things are best left forgotten. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleBob StraussJul 7, 2023
If anything keeps “Red Door” going, it’s Autumn Eakin’s exquisite cinematography. The Further looks like a shadow reflection of the real world, and she and Wilson never fail to come up with aesthetically interesting and sometimes ingenious light sources to illuminate portions of it. Read full review
20
The GuardianCharles BramescoJul 7, 2023
The writing expends more effort on teasing out the logistics of seeing dead people than making the phenomenon frightening or emotionally resonant. Read full review
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