iTunes Exclusive Episode Insidious The Last Key

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My name is Rob, I am the executive producer of the Clubhouse podcast and I have a policy I live by code and we are going to talk about that here in a minute. I'm not alone for this particular episode as I rarely am joining me across the desk as he does from time to time is the official fact checker of this show and a man who knows the key to everything, but he doesn't want you to know it. You may know him as fun, don't go, but his mama name I'm Don Ford, I'm going to call him Don Ford.

Welcome, sir. I don't lose my car keys that often, I don't know what your car keys, I know, but yeah, that's like one of those scenes that pet peeves of people, I really do that. I used to be a lot worse at that, but now I've gotten into a rhythm of leaving stuff all in the same place.

Yeah. So, whatever we do one of these, it is to review something, this is no exception. It is time to talk prequels as we talk about insidious, the last key.

For what's up, this whole thing? Yes, sir. We got to think Marianne, everybody at Slifox, Zee-Nee-Me, Zee-Nee, Zee-Nee, Zee-Nee, Zee-Nee.

We are such fans of everybody over at Slifox, they do such great work. They do Marianne. They do great work, they're good to us.

They let us see movies early so we can tell you about them, well, in this case, Don can tell you about them, because we were kind of dividing and conquering on this one. You were at one screening, I was at a different screening. Yeah.

And when we just decided to do that divide and conquer, I know you did not want to be the running one. You want to see this one? Well, I was letting you handle this one for a specific reason.

I mean, it's insidious. I mean, it's a franchise. Yes, it's a horror movie.

It's going to make a bazillion dollars, because that's what horror movies do. But like I said earlier, I have a policy, I live by a code. I refuse to subject myself to someone that's going to try to make me pee on myself.

That's just, I don't do horror movies in any way, shape or form. So I get to pass some time in the next year. Just keep that in mind.

This isn't the first time we've done that, sir, so I don't know exactly where that's coming from. There's one. It's like, hey, you see that?

I'm out. I'm going to pull it. Well, that's one thing that works really well with the group of people that we have on the show is we all have differing tastes.

So there's going to be times where you're like, you know what, this isn't really my cup of tea. And I'll be like, no, I'll go see this. I'm down.

Oh, yeah. And vice versa. And Chad kind of rounds that out.

Yeah, big time. And then you've got Gen Roman Alex involved too, so we can kind of cover as much ground as possible. Good deal.

All right. So in this directed by Adam Robotell, isn't that what you take when you're sick? No, we're just more of a touch.

Oh, I'm sorry. My bad. Yeah, of course.

There you go. You're welcome, America. And one of the stars actually is one of the writers, Lee one now who plays specs is the actual writer of this as well.

And this is a prequel to the insidious franchise where Paris psychologist, Dr. Elise Rainier faces her most fearsome and personal hunting yet in her own family home. So you know, I read your review currently located at www.theclubhousepodcast.com, which is our website.

Absolutely. Now, let me make sure I got this right, Dr. Rainier, we start with her as a child.

She has a gift. She can speak to the dead, her mother also has the gift. Yes.

Her father not big on the gift and things he can cure her of it fast forward to her as an adult where she's called back to her childhood home to to basically clear the house of some evil spirits that may or may not be there because someone else is living down right. Right. And he has issues and she's got a couple of assistants that come with her and things of that nature.

It runs about an hour forty five somewhere in that neighborhood. Let's just start there. This is a little long for your average horror mystery thriller.

Did it feel that long? No. Really?

Surprisingly not. And I know what you're saying. It's like the animated features, the slaps to come at you, they're starting to get a little bit longer and a little bit longer and a little bit longer.

But usually you think that 90 minute, it didn't seem that long. And let's just say one thing on the preface while you said earlier that dad tries to beat it out of her. Yes.

That's the most loving father in the world. Put it that way. Not that of the year.

Yeah. And at the time when they're living there, he's actually a guard at the prison and they're on prison grounds living in homes for the guards. So there's kind of that spirit.

That's why there might be a lot of spirits there because at the time this is older, there's executions are a lot faster and more faster than they are today all that yaddy yaddy yaddy. The plot kind of surprised me. It did keep me interested, but we're getting more of the plots of the good and the bad.

I think a little bit later because there's a couple areas I want to go into, which is also getting my review at www.clubhouseplotcast.com. That is our website. And I'll try to keep this spoiler free as possible, which we do for the empire.

Okay. Now, have you seen the other films in this franchise? I think I saw the first one.

Okay. But it ends where I think you can say the first one starts off. Now I don't, I didn't see all of them.

I'm the first to say that. To watch this film, you really don't need to see the other three except it. It's a prequel.

Yeah. It leads up to the first film. Yeah.

Because it kind of starts off where, I mean, it ends at the point where the first insidious is about to take place kind of thing. And it gives a little clues at the end to kind of, it's kind of in a way like Rogue One, you could say in a way. Okay.

How the ending kind of leads to something else. Okay. Fair enough.

I'm with you now. I'm with you now. I'm with you now.

Being spoiler free on both. Okay. Um, the acting, I want to get into that.

She does good. She, but she's been in like all of them, if I remember right. She's been insidious.

Lin Shea. Yeah. At least right now because of the main character.

And she has, she's at elder, well, she's 74 in real life. But she has that thing of the elderly lady who has that gift. And there's only basically in this film the time of her as a kid and current day.

And it does flash back to a few things. It starts off in the, as a child. And it builds that story of hers, a childhood and how it in fact affects her today.

And she has been in all three of the other ones. Yes. So it kind of, her acting and her style demeanor really fits.

And plus she's been in all three. So I think she's a perfect fit. Of course.

If you had somebody else, how would you have somebody else play this final role when she's been in the other three? It doesn't work too well. Right.

But her demeanor fits good of being that elderly lady who is used to dealing with spirits. It doesn't freak her out and stuff like that like it did as a kid because she's so used to it now. So demeanor for the character is really good.

Okay. The one I have to give a shout out to is Angus Samson played Tucker, one of her assistants. Yeah.

One of her assistants. This guy adds that comic relief to the film. He was in Mad Max Fury Road.

He's been in the TV version of Fargo. He's in the upcoming Winchester as well. He was in the TV series Shut I.

But I think the writers probably listen to this show or the guy in the city's chapter two. But the guy who plays specs, okay. He, when he wrote this, he probably listened to our show a few times and probably got some things from me.

What do we say? People are listening to this show. Because this guy does some of those stuff where you just have to shake your head and laugh and go, oh, Lord, like he's trying to hit on women and he has jello falling from his mouth and stuff like that.

Yeah. He's all ladies. Yeah.

It's kind of like me in some aspects. It's like, yeah, let's put Don. Well, he also wrote the original saw.

He wrote saw two. He wrote saw three. You know, both of the city's, both of the first, all the other films as well.

Yeah. Yeah. But his character in there is very, he adds that great comic relief to it, which I really enjoyed.

Having that kind of guy who's just like you shake your head and go, Lord, so I have to give the shout out to him of the whole cast, uh, specs as well as a kind of the science guy with the glasses, kind of guy, um, a CB, uh, Kirk, uh, Ace, Ace of eight, uh, Ace of eight, uh, no one from other films, Oz and stuff like that. He plays the guy. He plays the guy.

Yeah. He plays a guy who owns the house and stuff like that. Okay.

So he's the new resident of it. Yeah. He's new resident of the house.

Oh, I just saw him, um, recently on Arrow. Okay. He's on the arrow of the season, but he does a good role and he kind of plays that kind of quiet, something's wrong, uh, that, hey, are you came in with that kind of thing?

Not like he's psycho, but it's just like substance, bothering kind of thing and he's kind of quiet. And he does something in his past roles too. So he plays that pretty well.

So overall, I think they did a good job in casting for this film and in the acting and the style for this film, pretty impressive, and everything, um, Stewart who plays a dad is incredible. I think also. All right.

As if it's a dad. Yeah. So acting wise, good, the scenery, sets and stuff like that, it basically takes place at that old house, which is supposed, supposedly in five keys, New Mexico.

I don't know where they really shot at that. But most of this film takes place in that house. Okay.

So set wise, it has the three level house of the upstairs, the main floor, then the creepy downstairs where they have to have a generator to turn on the lights kind of thing. So I think how they did the sets and everything, it's good for that kind of film because the downstairs makes it kind of that real scary where there's an old fallout shelter and stuff like that in the film. There's a lot of CGI in this.

One thing that kind of bugs me is when they're downstairs at night, this is going to be one of those films, unless you see it in the theater when you're watching that home, especially during the day, you can get mostly get a black screen. You're like, what's going on there? You can't really see because it's so dark and they don't add much light.

And so if you ever watch some of those DVDs during the day and they're trying to do a dark scene in the dark room, you can barely see anything. Yeah. I think that'll be a problem with this because there's a few scenes where it was like real real dark.

Okay. Fair enough. That'd be one of my gripes on this film when it comes to the lighting and the filming and all that.

The CGI was good. You know there's some CGI, but you're doing it because of the CGI. Right.

There's for a film like this you kind of have to. Yeah, exactly. So they did find on the CGI and everything like that.

Now to the plot. This is what gets kind of interesting. You did talk about this in your written review as well.

Yeah. I was hoping you'd go into this a little bit. What they did, they start off with her as a kid and he kind of builds up foundation, then she comes back and tries to rid the spirits.

But it goes into a different angle and this is tough to do because I don't want to be spoiler on this. Absolutely. We pride ourselves of being spoiler three on this.

But you'll find out in this film that it's just not the dead, that's evil is the best way to put it. Fair enough. There's a lot of evil go around.

Evil on every level. Evil on every level. And you go, oh, wow, that's why it's just not the spirits kind of thing.

And when they went into this avenue going down this new path, I'd say on the script, even current day in family history, it's like, whoa, okay, this I think is adding a good twist to this. Okay. It's something kind of new.

But when you get that real family history, the family issues of the evil, it doesn't give a clear finality. It doesn't, you see kind of, but they, you don't get that finality. It's a bad.

I'll tell you off air. Okay. Fair enough.

They didn't resolve it well enough for you. They didn't resolve it. Okay.

They should resolve that family thing more than everything and I'm going to say is just suitcases. That's all I'm going to say. Fair enough.

Fair enough. You've gone in more of that after the suitcases is the best way to put it. Okay.

Fair enough. So that one. But still enjoyable for you.

Well, this is one of those like you, you like to say, leave your brain at the door. That's what this genre does. Yes.

Yes. Leave your brain at the door. You know, if you go into this thinking this is going to be a nice little comedy or a fun fest or a family film.

Welcome back from the cave. Yeah. Welcome back to the cave.

When you go into this film, you know what's going to be, it's going to be a horror film. The thing that kind of bugs me on some of these, they try to do the cheap scares. Yeah.

Yeah. And that's just like, there was a couple of scenes where I thought, they really have to try to do it that bad. It's dark.

You hear the creaks. You hear the background noises. That's what they do.

They try to open the curtains. It's like, I'm like, do I don't do it? Yeah.

I don't do it. But leave your brain at the door. You know what you're going to get with this.

I did like the comedy, but I think they should resolve the real life evil more than anything at the very end, especially with the family, that being my biggest gripe. But it wasn't a nice plot, plot turn to say it's just not all spirits is the best way to put it. So.

All right. And I'll say this fate forward. She just saw this with me.

And that's me in a nice husband. I didn't try to grab her during a, you know, because I, I bet she's glad you didn't. Yes.

But she kind of left this going. Yeah. You know, kind of it is what it is.

So that's fair. Great and final analysis. Yeah.

The way we do the final analysis on the show, we're not going to give you thumbs up, thumbs down. We're going to give you numbers, letter grades, locks, anything like that. We're going to ask Don two questions.

Question number ones. Would he see this film again? At the end, there's no them.

We're done here. And the answer is yes. Then the follow up question is, how far is he willing to go to see it?

Will he go full, full price, full of first run? Will he wait till maybe a little earlier, a twilight showing? Maybe a little earlier than that at a, uh, Matt and a showing.

Maybe a little earlier than that at a early showing on a weekend. Maybe he'd wait and see it at the second run at the dollar. Or a theater.

Maybe he'd wait for it and maybe just leave the house and go get it from a red box. Maybe he wouldn't leave the house and he said get it on Netflix or maybe he wouldn't even lift his computer screen open and he would just wait for it on Cape. Don would you see this film again?

Yeah. How far are you willing to go? I'd recommend this as a red box.

Okay. Go out. If you're at the store and you kind of want a film and you want something to kind of have at it.

Do you have the red box? Get some dinner at the Walmart, store them by the red box. Yeah.

Let's see what's going on here. Or maybe the second run. You didn't dollar theater on us too.

Don't go too far out of your way for it. Fair enough. You heard the man.

Adam Rubin would tell Jerex in Sidious the last key for me this whole thing. Yes, sir. And we got to think Mary and her band's life box.

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