While he's there, he meets a new ghost who looks like he walked out of the 1970s. Josh's story, meanwhile, takes a major turn when he's at his recently deceased mom's house doing memory exercises to try to pierce the brain fog he's suffered from ever since the second movie. And as we learned in the previous films, the more time he spends in that world, the more riled up the ghosts are going to be about it. When he stares at the painting too hard, it seems to have a hypnotic effect that knocks him out and sends him into the Further. Dalton may have forgotten the Red Door, but the Red Door didn't forget him. We know this door-that's where all the creepy ghoulies in the other movies came from. At the urging of his renowned art professor, he delves into his subconscious and paints what he finds there: a creepy red door.

Their journeys largely occur separately, with Dalton at college across the country.ĭalton's subconscious is unlocked through art. Both of them were then hypnotized so they would forget all this bad stuff and hopefully not get into another mess like this.īut unfortunately for Josh and Dalton, the powers-that-be in our world decided to make a new Insidious film about them, and so they got into another mess like that one.īeginning with the death of Lorraine, Josh's mom, Josh and Dalton experience the gradual return of these ghostly creatures as they slowly start to remember what happened to them. During Chapter 2, a possessed Josh Lambert (Patrick Wilson) chased his family around the house with a hammer and tried to kill them, but young Dalton (Ty Simpkins) ventured into the spirit realm that they call The Further, found Josh's spirit, and brought him back to his body. The Red Door picks up a decade after the events of Insidious Chapter 2-the third and fourth movies were prequels, and they aren't being disregarded or anything like that. Warning: This article contains major spoilers for Insidious: The Red Door, including a detailed description of its ending. If you're eager to understand where the story goes, we've broken down what happens during the ending of Insidious: The Red Door, including the after-credits scene. Insidious: The Red Door, the fifth movie in this franchise, proudly upholds that commitment to the big picture. These movies don't contradict each other, and they've got a neat core saga with the Lambert family and the ever-haunted Elise. The universe of Em1 that successfully exploited the parallel worlds and caused a massive paradox for those three other Emily universes.One of the lower-key awesome aspects of the Insidious series is its overall coherence. A universe where there’s two Emilys’ which is the final scene (which is why #1 exists).Ĥ. A universe where Emily appeared dead in the bathroom for no explicable reason.ģ. There’s a universe where Emily vanished without a trace.Ģ. So what we have here is:Įm1: Finds her perfect reality and during the blackout we no longer see her so Em1 SUCCEEDED in getting rid of the other Em and taking her place.Įm4: A version that got out of the trunk and comes crawling in, who is then killed in the bathroom by Em3.Įm3: The one switched for Em1 near the end who no longer had the jacket that Em1 was putting on.Įm2: Who was stuck in the car and called Kevin at the end of the film.ġ. Remember, if Em4 is unobservable and switches realities, then so does Em3 because she was also unobserved but had the ring on her. The Em4 vanished into another reality, but there’s still an Em2 in the Trunk because both Em3 and Em4 jumped to different realities in the bathroom by being unobserved by others which is why she pulled the curtain over Em4. When Em3 wakes-up the next morning after killing Em4, the old lady walks out of the bathroom all wet and with a towel on meaning Em3 is in a reality where it is working. The Em who comes into the house is from another reality, let’s call her Em4 and she dies in the Bathroom that is said to be unusable. Pre-Final Blackout, she has the jacket on and post-final blackout, the Em that we see is no longer Em1, but Em3 because she didn’t have the jacket.

Also, she did lock-up Em2 (the Universe Em1 entered to steal the life of) in the car perfectly. Em1 traveled through different parallel worlds to one where she had the best, wealthiest life for herself and made all the right decisions such as the Ballet Understudy choice. Meaning, anytime someone was in a black box situation (the items in a box, or Em in the bathroom, or the blackouts) then they switched places in the multiple parallel universes. The Coherence only comes through observation of the phenomena as per the Schrodinger’s Cat analogy in the film. I think this forum writer certainly makes the most sense.

Full Disclosure, it’s heavily based on reading this Reddit post.

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