Insidious: Red Door marks Wilson’s return to the franchise and his directorial debut.
After starring in Insidious and Insidious: Chapter 2, Patrick Wilson has returned to the Blumhouse franchise for Insidious: Red Door. Although the upcoming film, which premiers July 7, marks the fifth installment in the horror franchise, it serves as a direct sequel to Insidious: Chapter 2. As audiences may remember, the second film concluded with Josh Lambert (Wilson) and his son Dalton (Ty Simpkins) going under hypnosis to forget the horrors they had endured. Wilson returns to reprise the role of Josh and also helms the film, which marks his directorial debut. In a recent interview with GameSpot, Wilson opened up about his directorial efforts. He said:
“I really wanted to unpack the second movie and address the trauma. That’s the only way that I knew how to make a movie that I was passionate about, that I felt like I had any authority to make. So luckily, I’m surrounded by people that are longtime collaborators and knew that they would trust me and be there for questions and help and which, of course I used. Because I think it’s important. This is very collaborative–it’s a team sport. So yeah, it was a real gift, really, to have my first one out of the gate be such a successful franchise, such a built-in audience, but the creative ability to push the boundaries a little and do a different type of movie, but one that still honored the legacy. So that’s what I wanted to dig into.”
Insidious: Red Door’s synopsis takes place ten years after the second film and, according to the synopsis, will provide Wilson with the opportunity to address trauma. The film’s synopsis states that: “Josh Lambert heads east to drop his son Dalton off at an idyllic, ivy-league university. However, Dalton’s college dream becomes a nightmare when the repressed demons of his past suddenly return to haunt them both. To end the haunting and to put the demons to rest once and for all, Josh and Dalton must return once again to the Further in order to stop the Lambert nightmare for good.”
Insidious: Red Door stars Simpkins, Wilson, Rose Byrne, Andre Astor, and Lin Shaye, and is produced by Jason Blum, Oren Peli, James Wan, who directed the first two Insidious films, and Leigh Whannell, who wrote the first two films and directed Insidious: Chapter 3. The script was penned by Scott Teems based on a story by Whannell.
Although Insidious: Red Door is Wilson’s first Insidious film in nearly a decade, the actor has remained active in the horror genre. Since 2013, Wilson has portrayed demonologist Ed Warren through multiple films in The Conjuring universe. With several roles in films with supernatural components, Wilson was (rightfully) asked if he had ever experienced anything paranormal while making the films:
“First of all these movies, certainly the first two, we made on such a shoestring budget it felt like, and you’re so pressed for time that there’s not a lot of time for thinking about something else like something creepy happening. And certainly on this film, you know, I’m trying to scare the audience. I’m not trying to be scared myself. So I’m trying to craft something that I think would be cool or would think would be scary or different. Nothing really happens to me, no.”
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