At first, the mystery man’s face is hard to make out, but Dalton soon realizes that he has been drawing his dad, whose face looks a little off in the image. He finds himself drawing the Red Door once again, but this time, there is a man standing in front of it holding a hammer. But without the proper context, the memories only confuse Dalton more. The door becomes the key to unlocking the memories Dalton and his dad swore to forget years ago. The Red Door pops up in the new film, again via a now-teenage Dalton’s drawings, after his art teacher ( Succession’s Hiam Abbass) encourages him to dig into his subconscious for inspiration. It is also the entryway to the lair of the powerful Lipstick-Face Demon that Dalton refers to as “ the man with the fire in his face.” In Insidious, Dalton is trapped there and only escapes thanks to his dad, who is able to pry his son away from the red-faced demon, but fails to seal the door behind him, giving the demon continued access to their world. The Red Door is the barrier between the Further and a place even further beyond the world of the living, where the most tormented souls exist. The Red Door is introduced in the first Insidious film through young Dalton’s drawings, which are his way of making sense of what he thinks are nightmares, but are, in fact, the result of his spirit walks. Unfortunately, forgetting their astral projecting abilities and the horrors that came with it has left the two feeling disconnected from themselves and one another. In the final moments of the second Insidious film, the father and son choose to forget everything that happened to them in hopes of living a normal life. In Insidious: Chapter 2, it’s Dalton who saves his dad by traveling to the depths of the spiritual realm-but it takes a toll on the family. When Josh travels deep into the Further in Insidious to save Dalton, his body is taken over by a demon that kills Elise and nearly murders the entire Lambert family. The further Josh and Dalton travel into the Further, the harder it is to come back alive. These monsters, which Elise nicknamed “parasites,” feed on the living. He and his dad are able to leave their physical bodies while sleeping to travel into what Insidious’s resident demonologist (and star of Insidious 3 and 4) Elise Rainier (played by Lin Shaye) refers to as “The Further,” a shadowy dimension between heaven and hell where the most dangerous supernatural demons live. As a kid, Dalton described these out-of-body experiences as being able to watch himself sleep. ![]() The first two movies in the supernatural horror franchise, which made its debut in 2010, focused on Josh Lambert (Wilson) and his ten-year-old son, Dalton (Ty Simpkins), both of whom have the power to connect with the spirit world through astral projection. Where does Insidious: The Red Door pick up?
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