Insidious : Chapitre 3

Vu dans le cadre du « Challenge Tour – La chasse aux films », défi numéro 10 : un film qui te fait peur ou dont tu as peur. Ce troisième opus est plus que réussi. Je me suis ch*é dessus par moments, ce qui est un gage de qualité pour un film d’horreur. Le scénario n’est pas ce qu’il y a de plus séduisant dans ce film, mais dans le genre épouvante, je ne fais pas la fine bouche. Si j’ai des frissons à cinq reprises, que je fais des cauchemars ou que je commence à avoir peur du noir, je suis satisfait et je considère que le but a été atteint. Le meilleur film de la série, cela dit, est pour moi le deuxième. (13/07/2015)

Les tentations intenses de la fête, qui les connaît le mieux. Blumhouse est pour les films d'horreur, ce que Pixar est pour les films d'animation. Cependant, la finale est faible et l'intrigue, y compris chaque scène individuelle, n'est qu'une répétition des choses passées. À cause de cela, c'est le plus faible des trois. (21/06/2015)

Well made, but no more than that. Where the first movie was innovative and the second was interesting in terms of story, the third one is routine and repetitive. Whannell honours Wan's work and manages to produce a satisfying amount of effective jump scares, but he rather overdoes it in the climax, and the final exorcism of is a recyclate of the shoddiest nature. Does it matter that it's nice to look at and that the cinematographer, director and composer all deserve praise when they have contributed to a film that nobody needed to see, given its predecessors? 65% for the intention and the honesty. (28/07/2015)

I must admit that I had expected a loose but very similar sequel to the first two parts of Insidious. But it never occurred to me that I might be getting a film that knowingly pokes fun of all those monsters, demons and nightmares. It’s as if the movie took the Insidious name only to make fun of it and it got away with it without any problems. On the other hand, I was saying to myself whether I should cry about those illogical plot holes or whether I should simply enjoy scene after scene. You see once two guys with the punk image of ghostbusters burst into the teen horror halfway through, the movie gains a whole new unique dimension. On top of that, the technical side of the film isn’t actually too bad. All in all, this is a film that you can’t take seriously and that’s how you have to approach it. (17/10/2016)

Solidly made, but this time unfortunately it’s an utterly uninteresting safe bet. The first one laid down the rules and introduced us to the Further and the second one expanded the story in an interesting way, but the third instalment just follows the path set by the trend in ghost/exorcism movies and doesn’t have anything that I didn’t already see in the previous two episodes, and better. For Whannell’s standards, the script this time is woefully unoriginal and unsurprising. Lin Shaye is still great, but she alone is not enough for a higher rating, especially if she lacks the support of the other stars, who unfortunately deliver weak performances. The demon is also great, but we don’t get to know much about it. The film is chock full of jump-scares – unfortunately, I must add, because they always erase any signs of an atmosphere. And the worst is that they go nowhere, the demon shows up, says Boo! and then leaves. Throughout the film I never felt that the heroes were in any sort of danger, that the creators will really let the demon kill them. A barking dog doesn’t bite. That’s probably the biggest complaint for a horror movie. (05/06/2015)