October Horror Challenge 2023 #83: "Insidious: Chapter 3"

This is the third movie in the Insidious series. These movies just keep getting better and better. I was excited to check this one out. My friend Ed who gave me the movies told me that the sequels were all good, so I was stoked to get to watch them and i llanned on watching them back to back, but something came up every time i meant to watch them, so even though this movie came out in 2018, I'm just now watching it. I hope it'sworth the wait. This movie is supposed to go back to the beginning and show us what happened before Elise died at the end of the first movie. I'm glad they keep bringing Lin Shaye's character back because i love seeing her in horror movies. She's in a lot of my favorite horror movies, like "Dead End" and "Ouija" and "Ouija 2." Let's see what she does this time around.

In this movie, a teenage girl named Quinn who had a close relationship with her mother is devastated now that her mother is dead. She had such a connection with her mother that she can sense that her mother's spirit is still around, even after her death, so she seeks help in contacting her mother from famed psychic Elise Rainier. At first, Elise is reluctant to help, but she senses that something evil is trying to attach itself to Quinn, so she warns Quinn not to try to contact her mother again by herself. Typical of teenagers, Quinn doesn't listen, and soon she brings back something evil to this world. Now it is Quinn's father who seeks Elise's help in getting his daughter back from the dark presence that wants to take her soul.

This sequel shows us how Elise met her two ghost hunting associates, Specs and Tucker. They're fun characters and it was cool to see how she met up with them and started working with them. we also get to see a glimpse of how Elise helped people before her death in the first movie. We learn that at one point Elise actually gave up using her gift at one point because it was too dangerous for her to use it (I mean, as we see, it led to her death) but she comes out of semi-retirement in order to help Quinn, because she's such a good person that she can't turn down someone who genuinely needs her help. Dermot Mulroney is in this movie too, he plays Quinn's father and does a good job at first being a skeptic who slowly starts to believe and eventually would do anything to save his daughter. This is another sequel that's equal to the original in quality. I highly recommend this one if you're a fan of the first two.