lockewasalwaysbest

This should've been dialed up to 11 with a college as a setting and being the 5th movie in the series. Instead we get a sleepy, sloppy story with an underwhelming ending.

There are jump scares with loud noises so you'll jump but only because it's loud, not scary or disturbing. They break rules established in the first films which make everything, including this movie, pointless. They squander good acting and set up (art teacher, hello?).

It's mostly just a sort of creepy, psychological drama about dads, their sons, astral projection, and very misrepresented capabilities of hypnosis. Nothing like the previous installments.

Also, a kid who is afraid of the dark only uses 40 watt lightbulbs in his dorm room? And why was the fan still going during the blackout? The ambience reminded me of Pulse but it didn't even live up to that older movie as far as scary/disturbing went. Give it a miss if you're a true fan of the Insidious movies.

Someone's trying to kill her, run her over with a car, and she "doesn't want to talk about it" when the police officer asks her why her number one suspect might have it in for her. Does she think he's date material or something so she doesn't want to admit she rejected the guy's advances? I don't know why any woman in this day and age would be SO vapid and stupid. You tell the police EVERYTHING. Including the passive aggressive nonsense.

The music is awful and the lead overacts her fear, sometimes in places where it makes no sense to be SO afraid. She's almost like the bougie pet cat who suddenly finds herself homeless in the rain and can't function. But she's going for her Master's degree in Social Services. Okay. God help the kids in her case files.