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1* CaliforniaDoubling:
2** Averted in the case of the Lambert family storyline as the family resides around UsefulNotes/LosAngeles. ''Chapter 3'' is also focused around [=LA=].
3** ''Chapter 4'' was also filmed in California, but much of the plot is set in UsefulNotes/NewMexico.
4* CastingGag: In 2013's ''Film/TheConjuring'', Patrick Wilson plays Ed Warren [[spoiler: a paranormal investigator who intervenes to save a woman possessed by a demon from killing her own children.]] In ''Chapter 2'' (made by the same director and released less than three months later), [[spoiler: he plays a man possessed by a demon and compelled to kill his own children, before paranormal investigators intervene.]]
5* DirectedByCastMember:
6** Leigh Whannell (Steven "Specs") directed ''Chapter 3''.
7** Creator/PatrickWilson (Josh Lambert) directed ''The Red Door''.
8* FakeAmerican: Australians Creator/AngusSampson, Leigh Whannell, and Creator/RoseByrne (as Tucker, Specs, and Renai respectively).
9* ProductionPosse: Producers Oren Peli and Jason Blum worked together in ''Film/ParanormalActivity'', a fellow Blumhouse franchise. Meanwhile, Creator/JamesWan and Leigh Whannell have been friends since their film school days and most of their projects before TheNewTens (''Franchise/{{Saw}}'', ''Film/DeadSilence'') involved both in some way. Finally, Creator/PatrickWilson has starred in three separate Creator/JamesWan franchises -- this one, the ''Conjuring'' series, and the ''[[Film/Aquaman2018 Aquaman]]'' films.
10* RoleReprise: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Ty Simpkins, and Andrew Astor all reprise their roles as Josh, Renai, Dalton, and Foster in ''Insidious: The Red Door'', nearly a decade after their last appearances in ''Insidious: Chapter 2''.
11* SequelGap: ''Insidious: The Red Door'' came out five years after ''The Last Key'' and ten years after ''Chapter 2'', [[CliffhangerWall the last entry chronologically]].
12* StarMakingRole: For Creator/TySimpkins and Creator/LinShaye despite her having been in the acting business since the eighties.
13* WorkingTitle: The fifth film was initially announced as ''Insidious: Fear the Dark'' before the subtitle was changed to ''The Red Door''

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