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A PG-13 Horror Franchise With the Legs to Last

The Insidious franchise keeps going, and going, and going
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This previous weekend at the box office, the fifth movie in a creaky franchise with a huge opening despite receiving and going up against a bunch of expensive blockbusters. I refer to , the latest entry in a horror series that hadn’t released anything in five years and yet made $32 million domestic in its first weekend, knocking out of the top spot. The irony of the competition is that is also a nostalgia play of sorts, bringing back the series’ original cast of Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, and Ty Simpkins. But the

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