The ARR comes in at 81 days and domestic box office receipts were a solid $81.5 million.
This is the fifth entry in the series (dating back to 2011) and, impressively, it is the second-highest grossing member of the film franchise series domestically (add in foreign markets and it is number one) … just behind Insidious, Chapter Two (2013) with its $83.6 million. They say it is the final entry, but with the consistency of the box office performance for the Insidious series, you can never say never in Hollywood.
Almost everything associated with the release of Insidious: The Red Door was handled perfectly by Sony. A reported production budget of $16 million with a domestic box office take of $81.5 million makes it a winner.
DVD and Blu-ray editions 81 days after the theatrical release, perfect!
The only negative is the damn digital window inserted before the physical media release. In essence the studio served-up a pristine master of the film for the “helper” community to turn into early DVD and Blu-ray editions for consumers, who pay little attention to the source if it is something that they want.
And, sure enough, the same date that Insidious: The Red Door began consumer-on-demand streaming — digital window — it was released by “helpers” as both DVD and Blu-ray buying options. The creative community needs to seriously revisit this — the pandemic is over, stop feeding and encouraging rampant piracy at the expense of your own DVD and Blu-ray sales.
As to bonus features, there are two featurettes — “Past, Present, Further” and “A Possessed Director.”
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