Insidious: The Red Door's Rotten Tomatoes Score Continues A Horrible Franchise Trend

Insidious: The Red Door's Rotten Tomatoes score continues a horrible franchise trend based on the movie's reviews and how they compare to the sequels.

Insidious: The Red Door's Rotten Tomatoes score is another blemish for the horror movie franchise that continues a horrible trend. Blumhouse and James Wan launched the Insidious franchise in 2010 with the first movie focused on the Lambert family. Fast-forward 13 years and Insidious: The Red Door is the fifth entry in the franchise overall and the third to star the Lamberts. The movie centers around Dalton (Ty Simpkins) and Josh (Patrick Wilson) primarily as they experience new encounters with The Further and the supernatural. Insidious: The Red Door was made due to the franchise's continued success in recent years.

Much of the Insidious movies' success can be found at the box office, as the horror thrillers are made with smaller budgets than most franchises which allow them to be incredibly profitable. For a series that has continued to make new movies for more than a decade, there is no debate that it is a massive success. The Insidious movies have even become critic-proof in some regard, as the sequels' box office performances do not accurately reflect the poor reviews they have received. This puts less pressure on Insidious: The Red Door's Rotten Tomatoes score to be extremely high, which turns out to be good considering the reviews.

The Insidious: The Red Door Rotten Tomatoes score is fairly bad at this stage, as it has a 34% Rotten critic score based on 41 reviews as of the time of this writing. The negative Insidious 5 reviews, unfortunately, continue the franchise's trend for how the sequels have been received. James Wan's original Insidious launched the franchise with a 66% Fresh rating. However, every Insidious movie sequel has finished with a Rotten score on Rotten Tomatoes. Here is a comparison of the Insidious franchise's Rotten Tomatoes scores per movie:

Movie

Rotten Tomatoes Score

Insidious

66%

Insidious: Chapter 2

38%

Insidious: Chapter 3

57%

Insidious: The Last Key

33%

Insidious: The Red Door

34%

The comparison helps put Insidious: The Red Door's Rotten Tomatoes score in perspective. This is surely not the review score Blumhouse and director Patrick Wilson were hoping for. This means Insidious: The Red Door has the second-lowest Rotten Tomatoes score in the franchise with its current Rotten rating. There are early signs that while critics did not respond favorably to the movie, audiences are. Insidious: The Red Door's audience score on Rotten Tomatoes is currently 72%, which is a franchise high and makes it the only Insidious movie since the first's 62% to be Fresh.

Insidious: The Red Door's Rotten score on Rotten Tomatoes directly reflects the mixed-to-negative reviews the movie has received. The reason for this outcome is heavily linked to how scary Insidious 5 is for each viewer. The majority of reviews have pointed to a lack of tension and solid scares to keep viewers engaged, while the movie's inability to stand apart from previous entries and the horror movie genre at large also has been criticized. There are other Insidious: The Red Door reviews that make a compelling case for it being a better movie than the Rotten Tomatoes score suggests, but those are not as common.