Movie review
January 3, 2018 · 103 min · PG-13
Woke Score
Lower is better
Breakdown
These are the editorial factors and ratings behind our score for Insidious: The Last Key.
Woke representation / casting
The cast matches the story's 1950s New Mexico family and modern investigators without any visible identity signaling or mismatches to the setting.
Woke political dialogue
Dialogue stays within horror investigation and family confrontation; no activist speeches or modern social issues raised.
Identity-driven story themes
Core themes involve personal abuse, trauma recovery, and supernatural evil rooted in the family's history, presented as individual horror rather than group identity issues.
Western institutional / cultural critique
The father's role as executioner and abuser is treated as personal villainy and moral failing, not a critique of prisons, masculinity, or Western traditions in activist terms.
Review
Insidious: The Last Key is a 2018 supernatural horror movie and the fourth film in the Insidious franchise. Parapsychologist Elise Rainier travels back to her childhood home in rural New Mexico to investigate a haunting that ties into her own family trauma from the 1950s, including an abusive father and a demon she accidentally released as a child. The story mixes classic ghost-hunting action with personal backstory in straightforward horror style with no visible social, political, or identity-driven messaging.
Woke character or canon changes
The film expands original franchise lore consistently without altering established characters or source material for ideological reasons.
Anti-woke backlash and complaints
Searches and coverage reveal no complaints accusing the film of promoting woke ideology, DEI, or identity politics.
Creator track record context
The main team draws from low-woke horror backgrounds per cached profiles, with Jason Blum's occasional political comments providing the only slight elevation above pure zero.
Production
