"It was a lot more work," lead Ty Simpkins says of Insidious: The Red Door, which brings back the franchise's original protagonists for the first time in 10 years. "It was a lot of fun. There were a lot more lines but that's fun to play around with, and Dalton is fully formed and complex now. It was a fun challenge."

Back in 2010, Simpkins spent much of Insidious's three-week shoot pretending to be in a coma, while his character Dalton's spirit wandered the spook-filled dimension we'd later come to know as The Further. Its sequel, Insidious: Chapter 2, gave him a bit more to do but even that was still very little in comparison to his role in The Red Door.

Helmed by first-time director Patrick Wilson, who also returns as Dalton's father Josh, the new horror flick catches up with the Lamberts nine years after we saw them last. After their run-in with the Lipstick-Face Demon and Josh's possession almost a decade prior, the family has fractured. Josh and Renai (Rose Byrne) have separated, Josh's mother Lorraine has recently passed away, and Dalton is planning on moving miles away to attend a prestigious art school. Triggered by his newfound isolation, Josh starts being plagued by terrifying visions – and having been hypnotized at end of Chapter 2 to forget all that happened in the previous year, he can't work out what they mean.

In an attempt to reconnect with Dalton, Josh offers to drive him to school, but the youngster soon finds their foggy past coming back to haunt him, too, when his pushy professor prompts him to look inward to inspire his work. While he's not asleep for the majority of the movie this time around, Simpkins still has little dialogue, as most of his scenes either take place in front of an easel or in The Further. Surprisingly, though, he kind of dug not needing to rely on words for his performance.