Insidious: The Red Door Director/Star Patrick Wilson Wanted To "Address The Trauma" Of The Series

gamespot.com:

Insidious: The Red Door--the fifth film in this long-running horror series--has provided a new landmark for star Patrick Wilson: It's his first film in the director's chair. In a lot of different ways, it's an ideal situation for Wilson specifically.

He starred in the first two Insidious movies, both of which were put together by director James Wan, who also worked with Wilson on the first two Conjuring movies as well as both Aquaman films. Having one of the best working filmmakers on speed dial is probably pretty helpful when you're taking your first big-screen directing gig.

But even more than that, we're talking about a series that Wilson feels at home in, with a cast and crew that he's known forever and who wanted to help execute his vision. And it's a franchise with a consistent audience. It's good work if you can get it, and you can feel Wilson's level of comfort as you watch the movie.

But the first-time director wasn't just happy to be there. He wanted to make a new Insidious film that deals directly with the traumatic events of those first two movies, and especially the second one, in which Josh Lambert (Wilson's character) is possessed by the ghost of a serial killer and tries to murder his family. Insidious Chapter 2 ended with Josh and his son, Dalton, being hypnotized and forced to forget all their haunted adventures with all those spooky ghosts. But that's not the end of the story--as in the real world, suppressed trauma often comes back to bite us in the butt.

«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,» Wilson told GameSpot. «So luckily, I'm surrounded by