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Insidious 5 Gets A New Title – Hinting At A Deeper Journey Into The Further

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April 7, 2023

‘Insidious 5: The Red Door’ will haunt theaters on July 7

The Insidious franchise’s fifth installment, created by Leigh Whannell and James Wan, is experiencing a makeover before its scheduled release on July 7. Initially titled Insidious: Fear the Dark, the movie will now incorporate one of the series’ most famous visual motifs, rebranding itself as Insidious: The Red Door.

The upcoming installment of the Insidious franchise is set to take audiences to even darker corners of The Further, and the recent title change has us all the more excited about how far this journey will take us into the unknown.

Insidious: The Red Door is a fitting and ominous name that taps into one of the series’ most iconic visual motifs. The red doors have long served as gateways to the lairs of the franchise’s most sinister villains and as portals to The Further itself.

It’s clear that the red door holds a significant role in the Insidious universe, particularly in the Lambert family’s repeated hauntings. In the 2018 prequel Insidious: The Last Key, Elise Rainier, the franchise’s paranormal investigator, inadvertently leaves the door to the Lambert residence open as she departs The Further after defeating Key Face. Her mistake results in the family being trapped in a never-ending cycle of hauntings, with multiple trips to The Further in search of peace.

With Insidious: The Red Door, it seems that we’ll be delving deeper into the mythology of the franchise and exploring the significance of the red door even further. Perhaps we’ll even see a return of an iconic Darth Maul looking villain?

Insidious: The Red Door, picks up a decade after the events of the second film. Plot specifics are being kept hush-hush, but we do know that the movie will follow Josh Lambert (Patrick Wilson) as he drops off his son Dalton (Ty Simpkins) at college in the idyllic East Coast. Unfortunately, the family’s past soon resurfaces to haunt them, forcing the family to revisit The Further to put an end to the terror once and for all.

In a recent interview with Collider, Rose Byrne, one of the stars of the Insidious franchise, shared some details about the upcoming film. According to Byrne, the concept for Insidious: The Red Door originated from her co-star, Patrick Wilson, who will be making his directorial debut with the project while series co-creator Leigh Whannell writes.

After taking a break from the Lambert family, the storyline will focus on Elise’s character, Byrne noted that it felt like a natural progression to revisit the family and see how they’ve moved on from their past traumas.

Byrne also hinted at the possibility of another sequel, should the new film prove to be another hit for Blumhouse. However, the project would require the involvement of Wilson, Ty Simpkins, and Whannell to make it work. Fans will have to wait and see how Insidious: The Red Door performs at the box office, but if it’s anything like its predecessors, it’s sure to keep viewers on the edge of their seats.

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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments

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2 days ago

April 26, 2024

Timothy Rawles

It was a risk for Fede Alvarez to reboot Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead in 2013, but that risk paid off and so did its spiritual sequel Evil Dead Rise in 2023. Now Deadline is reporting that the series is getting, not one, but two fresh entries.

We already knew about the Sébastien Vaniček upcoming film that delves into the Deadite universe and should be a proper sequel to the latest film, but we are broadsided that Francis Galluppi and Ghost House Pictures are doing a one-off project set in Raimi’s universe based off of an idea that Galluppi pitched to Raimi himself. That concept is being kept under wraps.

“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence,” Raimi told Deadline. “He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”

That feature is titled The Last Stop In Yuma County which will release theatrically in the United States on May 4. It follows a traveling salesman, “stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop,” and “is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.”

Galluppi is an award-winning sci-fi/horror shorts director whose acclaimed works include High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project. You can view the full edit of High Desert Hell and the teaser for Gemini below:

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Fede Alvarez Teases ‘Alien: Romulus’ With RC Facehugger

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2 days ago

April 26, 2024

Timothy Rawles

Happy Alien Day! To celebrate director Fede Alvarez who is helming the latest sequel in the Alien franchise Alien: Romulus, got out his toy Facehugger in the SFX workshop. He posted his antics on Instagram with the following message:

“Playing with my favorite toy on set of #AlienRomulus last summer. RC Facehugger created by the amazing team from @wetaworkshop Happy #AlienDay everybody!”

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To commemorate the 45th anniversary of Ridley Scott’s original Alien movie, April 26 2024 has been designated as Alien Day, with a re-release of the film hitting theaters for a limited time.

Alien: Romulus is the seventh film in the franchise and is currently in post-production with a scheduled theatrical release date of August 16, 2024.

In other news from the Alien universe, James Cameron has been pitching fans the boxed set of Aliens: Expanded a new documentary film, and a collection of merch associated with the movie with pre-sales ending on May 5.

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‘Invisible Man 2’ Is “Closer Than Its Ever Been” to Happening

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2 days ago

April 26, 2024

Timothy Rawles

Elisabeth Moss in a very well-thought-out statement said in an interview for Happy Sad Confused that even though there have been some logistical issues for doing Invisible Man 2 there is hope on the horizon.

Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.

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Whannell is currently in New Zealand filming another monster movie for Universal, Wolf Man, which might be the spark that ignites Universal’s troubled Dark Universe concept which hasn’t gained any momentum since Tom Cruise’s failed attempt at resurrecting The Mummy.

Also, in the podcast video, Moss says she is not in the Wolf Man film so any speculation that it’s a crossover project is left in the air.

Meanwhile, Universal Studios is in the middle of constructing a year-round haunt house in Las Vegas which will showcase some of their classic cinematic monsters. Depending on attendance, this could be the boost the studio needs to get audiences interested in their creature IPs once more and to get more films made based on them.

The Las Vegas project is set to open in 2025, coinciding with their new proper theme park in Orlando called Epic Universe.