After the box office success of the first two Insidious films, the American horror movie is now ready to release its third installment. This time, Insidious: Chapter 3 is a prequel and audiences will be treated to an origin story.
Insidious: Chapter 3 will explore the story of one of the previous film's supporting characters Elise Rainier, played by Lin Shaye. In the first Insidious film, Ranier, a psychic and a medium, helped the Lambert family when supernatural events start happening in their home as one of their sons fall into a coma. Her character is killed at the end of the film, but appears a flashback and as a ghost in Insidious: Chapter 2.
In Insidious: Chapter 3, the events occur in 2008, before the Lambert family's ordeal. Here, audience will see Elise Rainier alive and still sort of starting out as a psychic and a medium. The film will explore how she reluctantly helps out a family whose teenage daughter is being tormented by a dangerous evil entity.
The film's director, and writer of all three Insidious films, Leigh Whannell is excited about the storyline presented in this latest installment. He reveals that having this origin story will lead to more sequels which could explore more supernatural investigations for the character of Rainier. This, of course, will depend highly on the success of this third film and the reception it gets from the audience.
Whannel, who also plays one of Rainier's assistants in all three films, believes that the third installment will become a foundation for the Insidious films into becoming a really big franchise, this time in the genre of American supernatural horror. Being the writer all co-creator of all three films, Insidious: Chapter 3 is Whannell's directorial debut.
With an origin story, this third installment will help answer some questions left behind by the first two films. Set to hit theaters on June 5, 2015, Insidious: Chapter 3 is sure to send chills down your spine.
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