![]() Josh (Wilson) has just lost his mother ( Barbara Hershey, remembered in a photo), and that trauma may be triggering things in him that Renai (Byrne) had just as soon not have around.Ī prologue tells us that after the last “Insidious” visitation from “The Further,” Josh and tween son Dalton were hypnotized and told to erase “the past year.” In “The Red Door,” the Lamberts have broken up. Vera Farmiga plays his better half in the “Conjuring” and “Annabelle” films about the “Amityville” investigators, the Warrens. “Insidious” is the one co-starring Rose Byrne. They can’t help but get mixed up in the memory. Wilson doesn’t help matters in this regard by showing up in three horror franchises concurrently. The plot? It’s a muddle, especially if all these titles run together and the through-line of this “Poltergeist” derived saga of a family being sucked into “The Further” isn’t fresh in your memory. And the acting is sharp, up and down the line, another testament to actors turning director. Wilson co-stars in, steps behind the camera to direct and even sings in the closing credits song in his latest, “Insidious: The Red Door.” The movie’s a near triumph of murky tone and general spookiness. ![]() One thing you can be sure of, when Wilson does an “Annabelle,” “Insidious” or “Conjuring” movie, when something that can’t be happening starts happening, he’s going to give you an award-worthy interpretation of puzzlement, alarm and freaking the f-out. Patrick Wilson has become something of the poster boy for “When Good Actors Do Horror.” ![]()
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