CW: child cruelty, jump scares
This midquel is another case of bad horror movie, OK movie.
It is even more ghostbustery than the last instalment and I sort of wish they would just abandon the jump scares and go fully with a straight drama where they do ghostbusting but they are totally down with having an actual medium who goes into the spirit world and kicks ass while the guys help back in the mundane.
It is so close to this already.
There's lots of flashback to Elise's childhood and some fun parallel story between The Futher and the mundane, past and present with spillage between the two.
It's cheesier than the macaroni I had for dinner but it is quite fun 6/10 and again I can see why it might not find an audience. Too horror (and reliant on genre assumptions) for a non-horror movie audience, not good enough horror for a horror audience.
The Insidious franchise has so far been very satisfying.