#lipstickface demon

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so back in 2010-11-ish I used to SIMP (still kinda do) for this handsome fellow real hard... he's from the movie Insidious, I felt nostalgic and drew him again🥰

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Insidious: The Last Key 2018

Let me start off with saying this is probably my favorite out of the series so far. Though I do love the first, This was a surprisingly good prequel. It starts off with scenes that show you Elise’ backstory. Which features the common father doesn’t accept her gift but her mother does, scenario. Her poor younger brother is just being traumatized his whole life by his sister scaring him with her gifts but who can blame him.

 Her father was played by Josh Stewart, who is always a welcomed sight to see in my eyes. He’s been a chameleon in the acting roles he’s landed so I wasn’t surprised he excelled at this role as well. You don’t get as many scenes with with Elise’ mother because she gets murdered when Elise goes into the further and unlocks the door for Keyface. Yes that’s the actual name for the demon. So we have Keyface and lipstick-face. They’re striving for creativity on these names. Which, side note, are we ever going to go back and see lipstick face other than his split second pop up in every movie? I still have questions about him and clearly he’s of importance if he’s popping up everytime. I know Elise died in the first movie but since these are out of order, let’s go back and revisit this guy. 

Flash forward to modern day, Well 2010, and Elise and the boys get a call for work in Elise’ childhood home. Go figure. Also she lived next to a prison so no wonder that house had so many spirits. At first she says no but to true Elise fashion, she changes her mind like she did with Quinn Brenner. Specs and Tucker are originally told they can’t go but as you can guess, they ended up tagging along. Despite having those small predictable moments, I will say the jump scares were great. I enjoy how Insidious always goes silent before a jumpscare. I prefer that over the music that can make it predictable as to when it’s going to happen. They did a great job in this film with making the scares happen in parts you aren’t expecting. 

 Back to Elise’s house and the boys get her set up for the night and the man living in the house, known as Ted Garza, shows her her childhood bedroom and says that’s where the ghost is. Note that this guy still had Elise’s family decor throughout the old house. That’s a bit gross but whatever his personal taste is. He hands her a bible and right as I was thinking, how is that going to ever help her?, Elise chuckles and sets it down on the bed when he leaves. That’s what I thought. Religion has never come into play in Insidious and I didn’t it want it to start. On a positive note for Elise, she finds her brothers old whistle that their mother gave him when he was six but thought he lost. That whistle becomes a pretty significant part of the story and I wasn’t really expecting it so that was a nice change of pace. Elise is eventually led into the basement, where her mother was murdered and where her father would make her go when she admitted she saw ghosts, and sees a woman who screams at Elise to help her. She doesn’t say help me but help her, signaling to Elise that someone else needs help. 

The next day the boys and Elise go to the diner in town and run into Elise’ nieces, Melissa and Imogen, who she didn’t know existed and she sees her brother for the first time after she left at 16. Naturally he told her to stay away from him and his family but Elise gives Melissa a photo she took of herself holding the whistle the night before and tells her to give it to her father. After another eventful night, the movie gave a surprising but enjoyable twist. Turns out Garza, the guy who owns the house now, is keeping a hostage chained behind a wall in the basement. Clearly he was more crazy than just being haunted by a ghost in Elise’ bedroom. Elise of course manages to find her with the help of the ghost and the whistle! One blow for yes and two for no. I always enjoy things like that because it can lead to a genuinely good jumpscare. It didn’t here but it was still a good scene. The one complaint I have is that it’s taking so long to finally see something other than Keyface demons hand and of course, who does he go after? Elise’ niece Melissa. Now I was watching the way the demon crawled on the floor and instantly I was reminded of Samara Morgan. He almost had that same look to his skin as well. Now clearly this demon isn’t a fan of noise because he uses one of his key fingers and sticks it in Melissa’s throat to silence her screams. There’s no backstory as to who this demon actually is, why he doesn’t like noise, what each key means or anything. So that leaves questions for us who have a interest in backstories of villains. Also goes back to having questions about lipstick face. Let’s give these demons their own backstory movie. 

 So Elise goes back to the house and helps her brother and Imogen find Melissa, chained and barely alive in the basement. As she’s being wheeled off, a secret comes out. Guess who can also see things and go into the further? Imogen! I wish I could inherit something like that from my family. So Elise gets knocked out and trapped in the further by Keyface and Imogen goes in for the first time to help her. After a battle against Keyface and finding Melissa, as they leave Elise comes across a red door. Now I was genuinely excited when I saw who was behind it. It was Dalton! Flashed to the scene where he fell in the attic. So by now you realize the movies are out of order but I found it exciting to see Dalton again.

 At the end you see Elise back home having a dream about Dalton and Lipstickface shows up in the window, looking a bit more crazy than usual. See he holds a lot of importance if he’s appeared in every movie and I’m dying to know why. I’ve left out a lot of details so it didn’t contain too many spoilers but overall, I thoroughly enjoyed Insidious 4 and I hope they continue the series. This was a movie I would definitely watch when I wanted a good Adrenalin rush from jump scares, not a casual Sunday movie.

💀💀💀💀 out of 5 skulls from me! 

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