I didn't really like this movie at all. it had a few startles and a couple of creepy parts. other than that it wasn't scary. plus, there was a bunch of stuff that was really dumb. some of it didn't work with the premise of the previous two movies, some was just out of place and not what this series is about. to me this is a stand alone movie with some of the same characters. another example of a series that gains a following and then puts out cheap garbage because they know it will still make money (1 viewing)

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really? She physically fights the ghosts? c'mon. nothing in the original two would lead you to put that in the third. it was definitely dumbed down for the audience, like the first time she fights the ghost and has a flashback of when her friend told her she's stronger than them cause she's alive. that happened like 20 minutes earlier, we don't need a flashback.

late in the movie she asks dude if he can use the camera to record in the dark. He says yes, but never used the camera again.

at the end, the main character talks to her dead mom. afterwards, she asks Elise " she's not coming back is she?" I was a little confused by that question but assumed she meant that her mom's ghost was leaving and not coming back to be around her. but Elise's response proved otherwise: "not to this world, no." really? So the girl was asking if her mom who has been dead for over a year is coming back to life? great writing (sarcasm)

one example of this movie not following the premise of the previous ones is that they were able to wake her up from the further by just shaking her. She did not have to go back to her body which played a big role in the previous movies

The teenager Quinn Brenner (Stefanie Scott) visits the medium Elise Rainier (Lin Shaye) expecting to contact her mother Lillith (Ele Keats). Quinn explains that she tried to contact her mother alone, but Elise refuses to help her. Soon Quinn is haunted by the fiend of The Man Who Can't Breathe (Michael Reid MacKay) in her room but her skeptical father Sean Brenner (Dermot Mulroney) does not believe in her words. However, when Quinn is violently attacked by the evil spirit, Sean asks Elise to help his daughter. Elise tries, but she is attacked by the Bride In Black (Tom Fitzpatrick) that wants to kill her and she refuses to continue. The desperate Sean is convinced by his son Alex (Tate Berney) to contacts the charlatans Tucker (Angus Sampson) and Specs (Leigh Whannell) that have a blog relating their supernatural experiences while Elise meets her friend Carl (Steve Coulter) that convinces her to help Quinn. Can the teenager be saved from the possession of the evil spirit?

"Insidious: Chapter 3" is a horror film and prequel of "Insidious" that uses the same successful formula rekindled. The performances are convincing and the storyline is well written. The astral projection of Elise is scary and the viewer will certainly startle many times. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "Sobrenatural: A Origem" ("Supernatural: The Origin")

Obscure story - girl gets haunted because ... her ghosts need to be dispelled?

The first hour is impressive. As always with this series, the sound is excellent (although the shrieking-witch violins are held back to the end credits),and there's an effective jump scare at 30 mins + at 50 mins a really well lamp-lit journey in the after-world. And it's good to see Lyn Shane carrying a film.

So the whole thing is nicely set up - maybe an allegory for a father's grief over his daughter's suicidal tendency - and then ... they introduce the ghost busters team and ruin the whole effect. Also the rest of the jump scares are lame. Pfff. And the father has no real character. And James Wan is part of the cast - the director in the theatre.

The tone changes so radically in the final act that you have to think the producers reduced the plot to a marketing vehicle so they could plan for the next sequel.