The scares are mostly nonexistent.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 16, 2022

You can expect the fun scares these films have provided over the last eight years, but after four films, it seems they are struggling to follow through in the last act. Providing a finale that is undeserving for a respected franchise.

| Jan 2, 2021

...a surprisingly enthralling capper to a series that was on the verge of running out of steam.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 8, 2020

[It operates] only to either telegraph a jump scare with its silence or drown the viewer in a cacophony of noises that are far more annoying than unnerving.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jul 23, 2020

Insidious: The Last Key is a letdown from its predecessor, yet not as much as Chapter 2 was after the first.

| Jun 30, 2020

Insidious 4 is fun, smart and frightening, an engaging movie that has a handful of creative scares and although it trips a bit at the finishing line, the amount of heart on display for the characters and the fans makes it a thoroughly entertaining watch.

| Jun 24, 2020

The film isn't a total bust, but having linked it back to the original film, it seems like a good time for creators Wan and Whannell to call it quits on a largely successful horror series before things get so stale it becomes an embarrassment.

| May 27, 2020

Narratively, the film is a shambles. It feels like disparate ideas being stitched together in post-production.

| Mar 23, 2020

Director Adam Robitel creates a tone unlike anything his predecessors generated; mournful yet warm, the movie engenders sympathy for the characters even as the action turns somber or gruesome.

| Mar 10, 2020

Unnecessary and far from noteworthy, Insidious: The Final Key should provide the final nail in the coffin for the film series.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 23, 2019

Shaye makes for a compelling heroine, refusing to be a victim and taking charge where men frequently fail, and her grounded and performance gives the film an emotional center.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 3, 2019

Very similar to other Insidious films but the backstory of its lead character, Elise, provides depth we have not seen before.

| Original Score: B- | May 8, 2019

A lot of fumbling over themes of family unity and believing in yourself - and that abusive fathers may not always be the most trustworthy people.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 21, 2019

To this day, I can still think of the crazy and scary moments of the first two Insidious films. I can't say that about The Last Key no matter how much of a fan I may be with this franchise.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 30, 2019

The kind of horror film that tells you exactly when to close your eyes, but it's fun nonetheless.

| Jan 19, 2019

Insidious: The Last Key fulfills my wish of learning more about Elise, but it is still probably the weakest installment of the franchise.

| Original Score: 5.5/10 | Nov 2, 2018

A serviceable prequel, but it is also the weakest entry in the franchise because it fails to do anything new with the property

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 31, 2018

Leans harder than the others have on the central theme of hauntings as a metaphor for generational trauma and psychic scarring - though it doesn't lose sight of being the "fun" haunted house series opposite the Conjuring movies.

| Original Score: 3 | Oct 31, 2018

The fourth trek into The Further resembles what awaits when one duplicate their abode's metallic pass at most Houston Home Depots: a dud.

| Original Score: D | Oct 11, 2018

Very quickly, it becomes completely mechanical.

| Aug 28, 2018