Key Face stabs Melissa, causing her physical body to start dying. Key Face attacks Elise, but Gerald saves her before he is stabbed by Key Face, his spirit vanishing. Elise starts beating Gerald, but is stopped by Imogen and refuses to feed Key Face any more hatred.
Key Face tries to coerce Elise into hurting her father's spirit as revenge for what he's done. Elise realizes Key Face had been controlling both Gerald and Ted, and feeds on the fear and hatred generated by the women they kidnapped. Imogen, who possesses abilities like Elise's, enters The Further and is led by Anna's ghost into a prison realm where Key Face is holding all of the souls he has taken, including Melissa and Elise. In the present, Elise is ambushed by Key Face and her spirit taken into the Further. The woman she saw as a girl, Anna, was actually alive then, not a ghost she was later killed by Gerald. Elise realizes that like Ted, her father Gerald had also kidnapped women and held them in the secret room. Trying to save Melissa, Elise searches the house and discovers hidden suitcases containing belongings of numerous other women whom had been held prisoner, including the young woman she had seen as a girl. Melissa is attacked by the demon from Elise's past, known as "Key Face." Key Face sends her into a coma, with her consciousness now stuck in the spirit realm of "The Further." Specs kills Ted in self defense.Īfter police clear the house, Christian and his daughters go inside to find the whistle. He locks the group in and tries to kill Specs. Guided by the female spirit, they discover a young woman being held prisoner inside. Elise and Tucker discover a hidden room in the basement. Hoping to repair their relationship, Elise hands Melissa a photo of the whistle, telling her to show it to Christian. Christian is still furious at Elise for abandoning him. She had fled the house in fear of another beating from her father, abandoning Christian.Įlise, Tucker, and Specs meet Melissa and Imogen, Christian's daughters. Elise tells Specs and Tucker that she had seen the spirit before when she was a young girl. While investigating, she finds Christian's lost whistle, but it disappears again after she encounters a female spirit. Realizing it's her childhood home, Elise departs to help him. A man named Ted Garza calls, saying he's been experiencing paranormal activity at his house. Audrey is killed by the demon.ĭecades later in California in 2010, Elise works as a paranormal investigator with her colleagues Specs and Tucker. Elise opens a mysterious red doorway and is briefly possessed by a demonic spirit. Gerald, furious, canes Elise and locks her in the basement. Frightened, Christian looks for a whistle their mother gave him to call for help, but cannot find it. Elise and Christian encounter a ghost in their bedroom. In 1953, Elise Rainier lives in Five Keys, New Mexico with her parents Audrey and Gerald and younger brother Christian.
It grossed $167 million worldwide, the highest of the franchise, and received mixed reviews, with praise for Shaye's performance but some critics stating that the franchise had run its course. The film was released in the United States on January 5, 2018, by Universal Pictures.
Principal photography began in August 2016, and ended the following month. In May 2016, it was announced that Chapter 4 would have an October 2017 release date with Whannell writing, Blum, Peli and Wan producing, Robitel directing, and Shaye returning to reprise her role as Elise Rainier. Talks for a fourth installment in the franchise began in June 2015, with Whannell saying the next film would take place shortly before the first film. Starring Lin Shaye, Angus Sampson, Leigh Whannell, Spencer Locke, Caitlin Gerard, and Bruce Davison, the film follows parapsychologist Elise Rainier as she investigates a haunting in her childhood home. It is the fourth installment in the Insidious franchise, and the second in the chronology of the story running through the series. It is produced by Jason Blum, Oren Peli, and James Wan. Insidious: The Last Key is a 2018 American supernatural horror film directed by Adam Robitel and written by Leigh Whannell.