I actually liked the ending When Quinn pulled his oxygen mask off. Got the feeling that the mask symbolized his parasitic feeding on The Souls of others. The reason it killed him is because once it was removed he had to breathe on his own and could no longer depend on the breath he had stolen from others, metaphorically and literally I suppose
I think the man who can't breathe having such little lore to him is honestly fitting for what he is. He's a being that feeds on the lowest of people, and because of that he has no true desires, he has no life or love, he has no strength to his character and all he leaves is a bitterness that others have the strength to be happy or at the very least content
Me too! I think it's because the red faces demon has a very stereotypical demon look whereas this one is "too real" because we all have seen people in hospital having to survive on life support ect...
I took Elise describing the Man who can't Breath as a demon as describing a human spirit who has become so corrupted and evil that they are no longer considered human anymore
After researching many different types of ghosts, the best conclusion I can come to is that the man who can’t breathe is a Dybbuk. He was once a man who died riddled with cancer completely alone, no loved ones or anyone to care for him at all. Normally within a soul you have Yin and Yang. Yin is the demon part, Yang is the spirit part. If enough hatred occurs during life, and the ghost is neglected with no one to mourn, Yin can take over. The Dybbuk is a type of demonic spirit which has been dislocated from the soul of a dead person and will attach itself to live people to feed off their soul and slowly wear them down overtime. It’s also more likely to occur with male souls and attach to female souls. This is the best conclusion I could come up with regarding this spirit.
If i was outside and a neighbour said "did i wake you up?" i would assume they made some noise and were worried, or maybe tried to wake me up to ask for something, so i would say something like "i'm not home" to imply "don't worry you didn't disturb me, also you can make all the noise you want right now" or "i cannot help you right now if you need something from my home or you need me to do something physical". "I'm not home" is the fastest way to convey a bunch of information at the same time
While I like the Crooked Man, I have a hard time seeing how they plan to make a story around him, seeing as he's not an actual entity himself, just one of Valak's facades. What do you think?
@ArbitraryEverything Understood. There seems to be a lot of hype around the character so the expectation has been built I think they should build off of that.
@@ArbitraryEverythingthe crooked man is valak, and valak’s facade is trapped inside the crooked man toy. Meaning that facade can indeed be its own entity puppeteer’ed by balak
@@joshskrtt8990 Oh shit, that's right. Like in the Nun, even when Valak was banished, the bit of it that possessed Frenchie was enough to keep it on earth.
Well, they did say the crooked man was his facade but there's also the chance the crooked man is actually it's own entity and he copied the appearance off. I don't remember where but there was a specific phrase in one of the movies confirming that the crooked man is most likely a entity of his own already existing that the demon decided to use as appearance. Of course as years passed they might have simply decided to not do it anymore and delete the character of the crooked man as entity of his own, but at the start he was actually implied as being a character of it's own given what one of the characters said.
Think a good idea for the franchise would be to make a spin off with these demons/spirits. Like "Insidious: Bride in Black" would be a great idea give us more insight to Parker and why his mother was the way she was but make the main protagonist the person who got away from them, or give us closure to what happened to Allison in the end of chapter 2
Like The Crooked Man from Conjuring 2, I don’t know if he is a separate entity from Valak but the way Ed takes the crooked man story from the family in the end makes it seem like he is a separate entity
@@leadman7600 yeah i liked what they did with the conjuring and with the saw franchise spiral was a good movie, there's so much they could do with insidious if they do it right cause I've heard mixed reviews with the red door
That would be amazing, but he kinda already does this with the horror history playlists. On second thought, that gets us one step closer. Someone write to Lionsgate. We’ve got a pitch for y’all!
She is basically the Tobin Bell of Insidious. Without her the movies just become meh and they always try to find a way to write her into the plot. Like her brief appearance in the last one.
I subscribe to the idea that Quinn's father was the next target, as many of the actions took by the demon when possessing Quinn's body were directly meant to hurt Quinn but hurt her father more. It makes me think that maybe Quinn would never have been targeted if Grace's husband (the old lady with dementia in the building) did not have the mentally stable outlook about his wife's situation even after her passing as he shows in the film. He makes sure to make a point that yes his wife was being tortured by what she saw (she directly recalls interaction with the man who can't breathe, of course he contributed to her deteriorating condition) but her husband was determined to not perpetuate the negativity and the things she said she saw or the things she may have even said to him when under the demon's influence. Because of that the man who can't breathe went looking for a new target family
Seems like they regret killing Elise so early with all these movies from the past that she's in and yeah they shouldn't have killed her off when they did
I think James wan only planned on doing one insidious film initially. That’s why he killed her off at the end of the first. Worst decision ever for sure
Sure it makes sense. He assumed that she made a noise which could've woken him up, but he's not at home, so it's impossible for this to have happened. Skip beating around the bush and just say you aren't home.
This is one of the first times I've actually been disappointed by the clickbait in one of CZ's videos. I thought there would be more references to the ghost's past or who he was before he became the entity, considering CZ had a timeline in the thumbnail. This is just a recap of the entire movie and not much to do with the entity's true history.
The "spirit that lived in" comment could refer that that it was stuck in the physical realm for some reason, the earlier movies stated that the demons and spirits "lived in" the further, meaning this thing was not originally from the further, but that also implies there is another place that has not been visited yet in the movies a place that the demons are purposefully leaving into the physical world and later find the further as a way to keep the power from the souls they take.
to think there's more beyond the further mentally exhausts me after watching the new chapter. but also why would the red face demon spend so much time in the further, behind the red door? it's obvious he lives there. wouldn't he live somewhere more cut off from other realms?
@@spider-woman9482 If demons go to the further to keep the souls they harvest it makes sense for a stronger one to have it's own inner realm in the further to keep other entities out, we do not know if demons and spirits can siphon souls from one another or from their collection while the entity is collecting new souls or is destroyed, or even if they can devour one another under the right circumstances to gain more power it might be a safety net to his collection in the red room.
I'd imagine it's a manifestation of Hell. They try and travel upwards (I would imagine like Dante's Inferno) getting more powerful and more powerful and then they break into the Further (Purgatory) where there are a further (no pun in ten did) where there are seven more levels to get through until you get the holding cell (think His Dark Materials) then you have the living. That's in my own head cannon though. They do seem to suggest The Further is purgatory though.
@@allster0crowly I bet there is a demon who feeds off other demons and ghosts probably. It be some sort of hierarchy like found in the Inferno 9 cycles of Hell. However, those demons (who feed off other demons) have no hope in Hell (no pun in ten did) in coming to the Further as they are too far gone.
@@METALFREAK03 Honestly tying in the conjuring/annabelle lore might just be a sound explanation in itself. There's some sort of hiercharchal system in the conjuring universe. makes sense for red faced demon to be one of the powerful demons who feeds off of weaker entities/ghosts
Honest to God, I find the Insidious series to be the most hilarious horror franchise. They are the opposite of scary with maybe two good jump scares from across the entire franchise. The scene where she suddenly gets nailed by a car kept me laughing for a while
chapter 1 and 2 were actually insidious, not because we learned the history of the bride in black and humanized what it once was, but because we knew how the hatred festered. after that, they began to show us too much and made it too bizarre. bizarre is just not scary from an outside perspective, even if there's a logical reason behind it
I think that demons in the further are the souls of humans that don't want to move on and over time they become demons. That's why she refers to him as both. Just my theory though!
As someone who isn't a fan of horror, I've always imagined my anxiety as a monster, an entity which feeds on my torment. It's really interesting that a lot of horror stories run with a similar idea. I guess it helps to put a physical form to something that causes a lot of turnoil without a visible cause.
In some legends, humans can eventually become demons. With the man who can't breathe, I always theorized that he was actually a human living in the building and while alive, he was a sexual predator. I feel he use to kidnap women and torture/SA them repeatedly until he either kills them or they kill themselves. Then the victims, never being found or getting justice, didn't get to "move on" or break free from their place of death. Then as the man got sick and died, he too was attached to his place/room and continued his torture w/ the souls as well as luring the living over to his side. This has always been my take on it, especially how disgusting the man was with his touching n proximity towards Quinn - it always gave predator
That makes a lot of sense. Someone added their take on it and said he was once a man who died but simply didn't have any loved ones, your explanation could be as to why he didn't have loved ones. Cool inquiries!
You sir a a true talent. It takes real skill and passion to go this far into the lore of films. I especially love this series, but your Patrick Bateman video was epic
Thank you! That wall knocking and texting scene made no sense and pulled me out of the movie when I saw it. My friend could not understand what I was on about lol.
Maybe he was a spirit that did live in the building, but Elise describes him as a demon due to his vengative and cruel ways of acting, parasiting souls, it drags souls. Demons try to cause pain in the physical world, not cause them suicide, would make sense hr is a resentful and cruel spirit
The Man who can't breath I always assumed he was once human -and inhabited the flat above Quinn when alive. People use 'demon' often as a blanket term for any evil spirit, especially the insidious franchise which exists in a pretty secular world! I've researched demons a fair bit and their origins vary wildly depending on culture and belief - especially if you step outside Christianity i.e. some theories are they were once human etc, the conclusion I have is that demons (or the concept of them) have various origins, they aren't all the same sort of entity! Also the man who can't breath could be part human - part embodiment of suffering, part ghost, part demon/negative force.
Another amazing video Zac - I have to say the organ to cover up naughty words makes me laugh out loud every time. I love how you can present something that can be so macabre in a humourous way 😂
8:03 I’m so confused 😭. What would be a better answer than "I'm not home" if they are always doing this knock thing with each other? Like, what else could he have said to make this scene make more sense?
Awesome video as usual. I appreciate all the research that goes into this!! I thought that it was a separate entity that visited Elise in her home. My theory is that in 4, when Elise opens the red door in the lambert’s attic it allowed the red faced demon to get to dalton, but also to her too. I love this movies. Gonna have to watch them again.
honestly i think it’s a great metaphor for an abusive relationship. everyone always says to leave and just get out which seems easy but after emotional manipulation and being torn down only to be comforted by that same attacker is a vicious cycle that’s only easy to break once you realize it’s happening
The man who can't breathe was a normal person who died of emphysema or lung cancer. His ghost refuses to move on and seeks out young people who appeal to him, and attaches itself to them to drive them to their own deaths so it can keep their souls trapped with him.
This video addresses the possibility of the form being based on someone who lived in that abandoned apartment. I believe that not only is this the case, the resident and their family were likely the first victims. Perhaps this resident had a touch of psychic power, and would astral project near the end to escape. The family either thought the demon was their dead relative, or confused the warnings as invitations to join. The neighbor woman who talks about The Man Who Can’t Breathe may’ve known the resident in life, and talked about their ability. Elise may be able to sense the resident, hence the confusion over whether it’s a ghost or demon.
I don't know, I think The Man Who Can't Breathe has more than one manifestation and in chapter 3 we only got one of those manifestations. As you said, he could be older than 1800s, and that apartment building was built in the 1930s. I assume he moves around as a spirit attached to male living forms, before splitting off into different manifestations and lairs.
Wait… so did the Man Who Can’t Breathe die of lung cancer like the girl’s mom? It could be an explanation as to why he leaves black tar everywhere he goes!
Omg I used to hate insidious 3 it was the only one that never scared me but thanks to this video I now understand how genius it and the insidious series are and it’s my favorite horror series
Nah… she deserves to be dunked on. I get she lost her mom, and I can sympathize with losing someone however she was warned choosing to ignore said warning. What happened to her she brought upon herself because of her stupidity.
But at the end of the movie we saw that her mom was always there. The man just happened to be there at the same time. And you can sympathize losing someone but this isn’t just a regular person this was her mother lmAo.
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I keep pointing this out just so you know why we are here as fans. I'm not a massive fan of watching horror movies but I love behind-the-scenes and horror lore. From what I have seen of the Insidious series, the movies maintain a common link but the demons / antagonist as distinctive about how they induce fear. Your presentations are full of information but a lot of fun too.
I think that in the world of Insidious, demon, spirit and entity are interchangeable, therefore covering all bases when talking about each one. You know, to cover the script writers asses.
You'll have to call up Todd McFarlane Toys to be properly immortalized in plastic, that toy is just too cheerful and bright. You ever notice the old ladies in horror movies? From the old lady in Poltergeist to this old lady, they're pretty much a horror staple at this point.
I've seen 1 conjuring movie and 1 insidious movie. I think ive seen this one. Either way, these movies are the exact same to the point where they have the same cast and director, and theyre not scary at all imo... But i dont really think ghost stories are scary in general. Plus there are a lot of cheap jump scares in these movies. Hot take, James Wan should stick to directing action movies. He's got an eye for it. Granted, he probably developed it through these horror movies. He made Aquaman, not terrible just with how great his shots are. Fast 7 is the best fast movie imo also due to his directing (its also the perfect dumb script. The Rock literally flexes out of a cast in it and thats just a small great moment in a movie full of em)
Anhedonia is the loss of the feeling of pleasure or a numbing associated with depression. It is not related to the inability to taste food although it can present as the loss of pleasure associated with eating.
Demoralizing monster, depriving of hope. An experienced manipulator and sensitive to the victim, enveloping when necessary with almost maternal care, but repelling immediately as the prey fulfills his will.A selfish creature from the depths of hell, but sometimes unfortunately I have met such among the living...
Easily my favorite TH-cam channel never once considered un subbing you keep politics out your stuff and just do good work thank you for being the best horror movie explanation channels
Are you going to be doing things you missed Red Door? Keep up the great work, your analysis and video style is the best in the film/tv serial "scope" of youtube! Frank
Am I starting losing my mind, or there’s an effect on your face like a tear falling almost on the right cheek, though left from our perspective. Anyone else notice that happening multiple times in the video or am I nuts here?
anhedonia is not taste related it is pleasure related : Anhedonia refers to the loss of ability to feel pleasure and is a common symptom of depressive disorders and substance use disorder.
Demon vs spirit - maybe in this universe, evil spirits slowly become demons as their hatred and evilness grows. I mean, in a lot of lore good people become angels upon death. It would make sense that evil people can become demons.
Or some of the spirits in the Insideous films could be like many of the demons in the show Supernatural that were spirits at one time but were corrupted over time and became demons. We know there's no real time frame in the Further and that in it you can tranvel back an;d forth between time, so it's not that farfetch. Just because they have demons in the movie doesn't mean all the demons match those in religious text where they all are fallen angels.
8:00 THANK YOU! So I'm not the only one who noticed this goof nonsense. If he's not home, he wouldn't know she knocked, so when she asked if she woke him up, he'd assume she meant by texting him on the phone, in which case, he wouldn't say "I'm not home" since that makes no sense, he'd say something like "no, I was already on the phone" or something. There are many ways they could've fixed this, but they were stuck in the god's-eye-view trap. 🤦 11:45 Anhedonia means inability to experience joy/happiness/pleasure. Ageusia (no gustation) is the inability to taste. The study on rats that Zac showed wasn't ageusia, the rats were capable of tasting food, they just don't experience pleasure from eating because of the depression, so they don't eat. 17:40 I think the "leave stuff to imagination / imagination is scarier" line is a cop-out for lazy writers to do less work and lazy artists to not try to make something actually look scary. 😒 I interpret the man-who-cant-breathe is specific to Quinn because of her mother the way that Pyramid Head is specific to James because of his wife. The mhcb would be as out of place being recycled for other characters and movies as recycling pyramid-head would be… so he probably will be. 😒
Now I've never watched any of the insidious films and I just came upon your video on my recommended so do correct me if I'm wrong but here's what I think of The man who can't breathe I think when elise said that The man who can't breathe is a spirit that lives in the building I think she was referring to the physical form of the demon, a man who once lived in the building and who I presumed suffered from lung cancer that died alone in the building and at the last moment of his life a demon absorb his soul and along it his grief and loneness. The demon collecting the souls of the people who he has killed and put into the dark is just him not wanting to be alone in the dark, for some people as part of the grieving process you are unable to recount the face of the recently deceased hence when the souls of the dead are brought into the dark they have no face, hands or feet as one is unable to recount those intricate details or you could remember them wrongly (girl with her head backwards) One thing that interested me is the black tar and traveling via air ventilation I think it's a knot to the fact that the man who the demon has taken a physical form of died from lung cancer. One of the main ingredient of cigarettes is tar which turns the lungs black and is pretty sticky so as the man who can't breathe travels it leaves black tar everywhere as the cancer. Traveling via air vent symbolises the fact that he is unable to breathe and move freely as he is breathing through the oxygen mask and since the body is stricken with cancer he is bedridden. Also the wall walking also symbolises the fact that he is unable to move much and he wants to get out, to explore the world as the man once did.
Just a comment on Quin and her neighbor. They clearly regularly knock on the walls to communicate and have probably woken each other up before by doing so. So that question has been asked before. Therefore, it's not weird for him to answer her that way because he knew she was referring to knocking on the wall to get his attention.
I went to see the Red Door last night, but I had to leave about half an hour in, there was a part (not trying to give any spoilers) involving a ghost and vomit and it brought back some trauma from my last relationship and bothered me too much to be able to stay and finish the movie.
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Can you do history of the fiend from insidious chapter 1?
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I actually liked the ending When Quinn pulled his oxygen mask off. Got the feeling that the mask symbolized his parasitic feeding on The Souls of others. The reason it killed him is because once it was removed he had to breathe on his own and could no longer depend on the breath he had stolen from others, metaphorically and literally I suppose
I like the idea that along with the souls he literally steals their breath so he can breathe it and survive
nice interpretation .
I think the man who can't breathe having such little lore to him is honestly fitting for what he is. He's a being that feeds on the lowest of people, and because of that he has no true desires, he has no life or love, he has no strength to his character and all he leaves is a bitterness that others have the strength to be happy or at the very least content
The thing I find funny was the actor that plays Officer Bailey in Scream 6 , and Sean Brenner in Insidious both have a daughter name Quinn
00:35 Another giveaway is the plastic his mask and tubes are made out of. I do not think they existed before the 20th Century.
yeah the mask looks like 1920s-1950s early plastic oxygen masks. Before like 1910 we only had leather for them.
@@jansonshrock2859 Ty Sir. I was not sure of the exact era, but the plastic was a dead giveaway (no pun meant).
Do the Chi face demon
I found this demon more disturbing than the red faced demon itself. Nonetheless love the series of films and these fantastic videos regardless.
Yesss
The man who can't breathe is pretty disturbing, but I feel the lipstick demon is more terrifying.
Me too! I think it's because the red faces demon has a very stereotypical demon look whereas this one is "too real" because we all have seen people in hospital having to survive on life support ect...
Agreed. The red faced dude has always kinda looked like someone cosplaying as a demon to me 😅
Agreed.
I took Elise describing the Man who can't Breath as a demon as describing a human spirit who has become so corrupted and evil that they are no longer considered human anymore
Like on Supernatural.
After researching many different types of ghosts, the best conclusion I can come to is that the man who can’t breathe is a Dybbuk. He was once a man who died riddled with cancer completely alone, no loved ones or anyone to care for him at all. Normally within a soul you have Yin and Yang. Yin is the demon part, Yang is the spirit part. If enough hatred occurs during life, and the ghost is neglected with no one to mourn, Yin can take over. The Dybbuk is a type of demonic spirit which has been dislocated from the soul of a dead person and will attach itself to live people to feed off their soul and slowly wear them down overtime. It’s also more likely to occur with male souls and attach to female souls. This is the best conclusion I could come up with regarding this spirit.
Makes sense!
Yes but unsure why you mixed Chinese with Yiddish culture?
There’s gonna be an awful lot of female Dybbuk coming around soon. All thanks to feminism.
@@michaelshattuck1874lol
@METALFREAK03 Yeeeaah I had similar thoughts. Mixing 2 entirely different cultural,religious beliefs & spiritualities together.
7:24 "break her spirit with another tragedy making it easier to absorb her soul" is such a scary scenaroo to imagine, paranormal entities are wild
Thats what they almost always do before possession though
Well in movies, theyre not real
If i was outside and a neighbour said "did i wake you up?" i would assume they made some noise and were worried, or maybe tried to wake me up to ask for something, so i would say something like "i'm not home" to imply "don't worry you didn't disturb me, also you can make all the noise you want right now" or "i cannot help you right now if you need something from my home or you need me to do something physical". "I'm not home" is the fastest way to convey a bunch of information at the same time
yeah it was weird how much that bothered him
The man who can't breathe, the crooked man, and the key monster from the Insidious 4 Last Key all need their own spin off films.
While I like the Crooked Man, I have a hard time seeing how they plan to make a story around him, seeing as he's not an actual entity himself, just one of Valak's facades. What do you think?
@ArbitraryEverything Understood. There seems to be a lot of hype around the character so the expectation has been built I think they should build off of that.
@@ArbitraryEverythingthe crooked man is valak, and valak’s facade is trapped inside the crooked man toy. Meaning that facade can indeed be its own entity puppeteer’ed by balak
@@joshskrtt8990 Oh shit, that's right. Like in the Nun, even when Valak was banished, the bit of it that possessed Frenchie was enough to keep it on earth.
Well, they did say the crooked man was his facade but there's also the chance the crooked man is actually it's own entity and he copied the appearance off.
I don't remember where but there was a specific phrase in one of the movies confirming that the crooked man is most likely a entity of his own already existing that the demon decided to use as appearance.
Of course as years passed they might have simply decided to not do it anymore and delete the character of the crooked man as entity of his own, but at the start he was actually implied as being a character of it's own given what one of the characters said.
Think a good idea for the franchise would be to make a spin off with these demons/spirits. Like "Insidious: Bride in Black" would be a great idea give us more insight to Parker and why his mother was the way she was but make the main protagonist the person who got away from them, or give us closure to what happened to Allison in the end of chapter 2
Like The Crooked Man from Conjuring 2, I don’t know if he is a separate entity from Valak but the way Ed takes the crooked man story from the family in the end makes it seem like he is a separate entity
@@leadman7600 yeah i liked what they did with the conjuring and with the saw franchise spiral was a good movie, there's so much they could do with insidious if they do it right cause I've heard mixed reviews with the red door
@leadman7600 man I was so hyped when I heard they were going to make a Crooked Man movie!! Sadly is isn't actually happening though.
I said the same think I’m a different vid! A spin off of “the bride in black” would be awesome
@@rigbysoto7896 for real ive always wanted more of a back story with the bride in black
I feel like CZ would make a great host for a horror focused anthology show like twilight zone but darker.
Oh my God that would be so freaking cool 🤩
@@gabriellebraswell3306 right!?
That would be amazing, but he kinda already does this with the horror history playlists. On second thought, that gets us one step closer. Someone write to Lionsgate. We’ve got a pitch for y’all!
Watch out, Jordan Peele.
“Motherless girl” you didn’t have to do her like that 💀
I love how you shifted from dressing like a magician to a waiter now
Lin Shaye as Elise is fabulous! I would watch her shop for groceries or clean her house. I love her!!
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Her speaking voice for me is so soothing!! I love her parts the most
Lol
I would love to see a horror history on Elise for insidious
She is basically the Tobin Bell of Insidious. Without her the movies just become meh and they always try to find a way to write her into the plot. Like her brief appearance in the last one.
@@theblackbaron4119the latest movie was a lame cash grab anyways
me too!
Man, if the Winchester brothers were in this universe they'd have no trouble killing these things
lol that’s a crossover I’d love to see
I love you described Quinn as "Motherless Girl" LMAO
I subscribe to the idea that Quinn's father was the next target, as many of the actions took by the demon when possessing Quinn's body were directly meant to hurt Quinn but hurt her father more. It makes me think that maybe Quinn would never have been targeted if Grace's husband (the old lady with dementia in the building) did not have the mentally stable outlook about his wife's situation even after her passing as he shows in the film. He makes sure to make a point that yes his wife was being tortured by what she saw (she directly recalls interaction with the man who can't breathe, of course he contributed to her deteriorating condition) but her husband was determined to not perpetuate the negativity and the things she said she saw or the things she may have even said to him when under the demon's influence. Because of that the man who can't breathe went looking for a new target family
As someone who suffers from Major depressive disorder this movie is a great representation of how it is.
Same... Hang in there
Agreed
Depression is a state of mind and rich people
@@Miguel-pv6qldepression is a mental disorder. not as state of mind.
Stay strong my guy,you'll emerge victorious
Seems like they regret killing Elise so early with all these movies from the past that she's in and yeah they shouldn't have killed her off when they did
I think James wan only planned on doing one insidious film initially. That’s why he killed her off at the end of the first. Worst decision ever for sure
Michael also had the "honor" of playing the diminutive form of Bane in the 1997 Batman & Robin film.
Sure it makes sense. He assumed that she made a noise which could've woken him up, but he's not at home, so it's impossible for this to have happened. Skip beating around the bush and just say you aren't home.
Or maybe he thought it was a crippled booty call
Agree, totally makes sense to me.
Aaahh, I can hardly wait for you to do the "things you missed" for red door.
This is one of the first times I've actually been disappointed by the clickbait in one of CZ's videos. I thought there would be more references to the ghost's past or who he was before he became the entity, considering CZ had a timeline in the thumbnail. This is just a recap of the entire movie and not much to do with the entity's true history.
The "spirit that lived in" comment could refer that that it was stuck in the physical realm for some reason, the earlier movies stated that the demons and spirits "lived in" the further, meaning this thing was not originally from the further, but that also implies there is another place that has not been visited yet in the movies a place that the demons are purposefully leaving into the physical world and later find the further as a way to keep the power from the souls they take.
to think there's more beyond the further mentally exhausts me after watching the new chapter. but also why would the red face demon spend so much time in the further, behind the red door? it's obvious he lives there. wouldn't he live somewhere more cut off from other realms?
@@spider-woman9482 If demons go to the further to keep the souls they harvest it makes sense for a stronger one to have it's own inner realm in the further to keep other entities out, we do not know if demons and spirits can siphon souls from one another or from their collection while the entity is collecting new souls or is destroyed, or even if they can devour one another under the right circumstances to gain more power it might be a safety net to his collection in the red room.
I'd imagine it's a manifestation of Hell.
They try and travel upwards (I would imagine like Dante's Inferno) getting more powerful and more powerful and then they break into the Further (Purgatory) where there are a further (no pun in ten did) where there are seven more levels to get through until you get the holding cell (think His Dark Materials) then you have the living.
That's in my own head cannon though. They do seem to suggest The Further is purgatory though.
@@allster0crowly I bet there is a demon who feeds off other demons and ghosts probably. It be some sort of hierarchy like found in the Inferno 9 cycles of Hell. However, those demons (who feed off other demons) have no hope in Hell (no pun in ten did) in coming to the Further as they are too far gone.
@@METALFREAK03 Honestly tying in the conjuring/annabelle lore might just be a sound explanation in itself. There's some sort of hiercharchal system in the conjuring universe. makes sense for red faced demon to be one of the powerful demons who feeds off of weaker entities/ghosts
Honest to God, I find the Insidious series to be the most hilarious horror franchise. They are the opposite of scary with maybe two good jump scares from across the entire franchise. The scene where she suddenly gets nailed by a car kept me laughing for a while
chapter 1 and 2 were actually insidious, not because we learned the history of the bride in black and humanized what it once was, but because we knew how the hatred festered. after that, they began to show us too much and made it too bizarre. bizarre is just not scary from an outside perspective, even if there's a logical reason behind it
This is the only franchise that is not scary. I still wanna see the newest movie though😭😭
That’s certainly an opinion you have 🙂
Theyre goofy and deliberately a bit over the top, fun though
I'm really not into horror... but I love these videos XD "Horror by proxy" if you will.
I think that demons in the further are the souls of humans that don't want to move on and over time they become demons. That's why she refers to him as both. Just my theory though!
As someone who isn't a fan of horror, I've always imagined my anxiety as a monster, an entity which feeds on my torment. It's really interesting that a lot of horror stories run with a similar idea. I guess it helps to put a physical form to something that causes a lot of turnoil without a visible cause.
"Some psychopath attempting to murder her with his car"
The humor over every video makes it 10x more enjoyable
In some legends, humans can eventually become demons. With the man who can't breathe, I always theorized that he was actually a human living in the building and while alive, he was a sexual predator. I feel he use to kidnap women and torture/SA them repeatedly until he either kills them or they kill themselves. Then the victims, never being found or getting justice, didn't get to "move on" or break free from their place of death. Then as the man got sick and died, he too was attached to his place/room and continued his torture w/ the souls as well as luring the living over to his side. This has always been my take on it, especially how disgusting the man was with his touching n proximity towards Quinn - it always gave predator
I thought the exact same thing, good to know I'm not alone.
@@MILZ414 glad I’m not alone too. It’s always good to see different takes overall
That makes a lot of sense. Someone added their take on it and said he was once a man who died but simply didn't have any loved ones, your explanation could be as to why he didn't have loved ones. Cool inquiries!
@@spider-woman9482 I saw something similar like that too! It’s always good to see other’s take
Listening to the video “The Man who can’t breathe”
Me: “You mean George Floyd?”
(Looks at screen) “Nope that’s a different man…”
You sir a a true talent. It takes real skill and passion to go this far into the lore of films. I especially love this series, but your Patrick Bateman video was epic
Thank you! That wall knocking and texting scene made no sense and pulled me out of the movie when I saw it. My friend could not understand what I was on about lol.
Maybe he was a spirit that did live in the building, but Elise describes him as a demon due to his vengative and cruel ways of acting, parasiting souls, it drags souls. Demons try to cause pain in the physical world, not cause them suicide, would make sense hr is a resentful and cruel spirit
The Man who can't breath I always assumed he was once human -and inhabited the flat above Quinn when alive. People use 'demon' often as a blanket term for any evil spirit, especially the insidious franchise which exists in a pretty secular world! I've researched demons a fair bit and their origins vary wildly depending on culture and belief - especially if you step outside Christianity i.e. some theories are they were once human etc, the conclusion I have is that demons (or the concept of them) have various origins, they aren't all the same sort of entity! Also the man who can't breath could be part human - part embodiment of suffering, part ghost, part demon/negative force.
He was "this" close to getting a new body
Another amazing video Zac - I have to say the organ to cover up naughty words makes me laugh out loud every time. I love how you can present something that can be so macabre in a humourous way 😂
8:03 I’m so confused 😭. What would be a better answer than "I'm not home" if they are always doing this knock thing with each other? Like, what else could he have said to make this scene make more sense?
That's what I'm trying to figure out 😂. The neighbor replying, "I'm not home," would basically imply "No, you didn't wake me up."
@@Terrell101ify I was waiting for someone to tell me I missed something 😭. Glad to know I wasn’t the only one confused,
same lol they literally knock on each others walls every night. guess he forgot that part and why the entity knocking back is so bone chilling
Awesome video as usual. I appreciate all the research that goes into this!!
I thought that it was a separate entity that visited Elise in her home. My theory is that in 4, when Elise opens the red door in the lambert’s attic it allowed the red faced demon to get to dalton, but also to her too. I love this movies. Gonna have to watch them again.
funny how easy it was for quinn to kill him. never liked him..
also the “motherless child” under quinn brenner absolutely DESTROYED me!! 😂😂😂😂
honestly i think it’s a great metaphor for an abusive relationship. everyone always says to leave and just get out which seems easy but after emotional manipulation and being torn down only to be comforted by that same attacker is a vicious cycle that’s only easy to break once you realize it’s happening
@@aria5572 totally get it like it’s easy for you to leave but you don’t.. makes a lot of sense.
To those people who wants to understand the entire Insidious franchise I will recommend to start with 3 then 4 then 1, 2 and lastly 5.
CZ, would you ever do a video on the Terrifier franchise? I love your channel and the movies so I thought it’ll be dope
The man who can't breathe was a normal person who died of emphysema or lung cancer. His ghost refuses to move on and seeks out young people who appeal to him, and attaches itself to them to drive them to their own deaths so it can keep their souls trapped with him.
This video addresses the possibility of the form being based on someone who lived in that abandoned apartment. I believe that not only is this the case, the resident and their family were likely the first victims. Perhaps this resident had a touch of psychic power, and would astral project near the end to escape. The family either thought the demon was their dead relative, or confused the warnings as invitations to join. The neighbor woman who talks about The Man Who Can’t Breathe may’ve known the resident in life, and talked about their ability. Elise may be able to sense the resident, hence the confusion over whether it’s a ghost or demon.
Chapter 3 is one of my favorite horror movies and Quinn's so cute. The Man That Can't Breathe's so creepy looking too.
This guy made insidious 3 my favourite of all of em. How he cradled...Quinn in the further was Creepy and awesome
I don't know, I think The Man Who Can't Breathe has more than one manifestation and in chapter 3 we only got one of those manifestations.
As you said, he could be older than 1800s, and that apartment building was built in the 1930s.
I assume he moves around as a spirit attached to male living forms, before splitting off into different manifestations and lairs.
Your Youtooz isn't all that accurate.
It doesn't have your massive chest muscles.
Wait… so did the Man Who Can’t Breathe die of lung cancer like the girl’s mom?
It could be an explanation as to why he leaves black tar everywhere he goes!
Insidious went to shit after the third movie.
Omg I used to hate insidious 3 it was the only one that never scared me but thanks to this video I now understand how genius it and the insidious series are and it’s my favorite horror series
Nah… she deserves to be dunked on. I get she lost her mom, and I can sympathize with losing someone however she was warned choosing to ignore said warning. What happened to her she brought upon herself because of her stupidity.
so true!! she should’ve listened to elise & the lady who lived in her building!
But at the end of the movie we saw that her mom was always there. The man just happened to be there at the same time. And you can sympathize losing someone but this isn’t just a regular person this was her mother lmAo.
Is there a special "How to talk like an info graphic youtuber" course that you all take?
Yo CZ I found your channel and loved it i think I have checked out all your videos in a short time keep doing your thing my guy NC in the house holla at your boy 👍🏿
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I keep pointing this out just so you know why we are here as fans. I'm not a massive fan of watching horror movies but I love behind-the-scenes and horror lore. From what I have seen of the Insidious series, the movies maintain a common link but the demons / antagonist as distinctive about how they induce fear. Your presentations are full of information but a lot of fun too.
“Motherless girl” I actually laughed out loud 😂
CZ can you please make a video on Jeepers Creepers 🙏🔥
Yes, and the demon Pazuzu from Exorcist: The beginning 2004
Perhaps they use Supernatural logic. I believe in the show a tortured soul can become a demon (lower level demon I think).
Are you going to make a Things You Missed for the Nun II trailer?
I think that in the world of Insidious, demon, spirit and entity are interchangeable, therefore covering all bases when talking about each one. You know, to cover the script writers asses.
Hey brother, I can't watch without acknowledging how Jacked you look, definitely tell you're eating better and working out. God bless from Ireland.
The bride in black and the mother were the scarest one for me then the Breathless man is the second of who Spooke me
You'll have to call up Todd McFarlane Toys to be properly immortalized in plastic, that toy is just too cheerful and bright. You ever notice the old ladies in horror movies? From the old lady in Poltergeist to this old lady, they're pretty much a horror staple at this point.
I honestly like Insidious Chapter 3 just as much as the first two.
Love these videos man, keep up the great work 🙏🏾‼️
Imma be honest. 12:39 scared me here more than it did in the movie.
I've seen 1 conjuring movie and 1 insidious movie. I think ive seen this one. Either way, these movies are the exact same to the point where they have the same cast and director, and theyre not scary at all imo... But i dont really think ghost stories are scary in general. Plus there are a lot of cheap jump scares in these movies.
Hot take, James Wan should stick to directing action movies. He's got an eye for it. Granted, he probably developed it through these horror movies. He made Aquaman, not terrible just with how great his shots are. Fast 7 is the best fast movie imo also due to his directing (its also the perfect dumb script. The Rock literally flexes out of a cast in it and thats just a small great moment in a movie full of em)
Literally in the middle of the night watching this😭🤚
@BloodyKnuckleim coming for YOU.
Anhedonia is the loss of the feeling of pleasure or a numbing associated with depression. It is not related to the inability to taste food although it can present as the loss of pleasure associated with eating.
You should do evil dead rise! 😅 it’s awesome the horror of movie in my opinion and there’s lot of some gruesome and graphic scenes and possessions😶
The man who can't breathe is by far my favourite. Absolutely terrifying and so sorrowful.
Demoralizing monster, depriving of hope. An experienced manipulator and sensitive to the victim, enveloping when necessary with almost maternal care, but repelling immediately as the prey fulfills his will.A selfish creature from the depths of hell, but sometimes unfortunately I have met such among the living...
me, diagnosed with depression and named quinn: 👁👄👁
Easily my favorite TH-cam channel never once considered un subbing you keep politics out your stuff and just do good work thank you for being the best horror movie explanation channels
Are you going to be doing things you missed Red Door?
Keep up the great work, your analysis and video style is the best in the film/tv serial "scope" of youtube!
Frank
Am I starting losing my mind, or there’s an effect on your face like a tear falling almost on the right cheek, though left from our perspective. Anyone else notice that happening multiple times in the video or am I nuts here?
anhedonia is not taste related it is pleasure related : Anhedonia refers to the loss of ability to feel pleasure and is a common symptom of depressive disorders and substance use disorder.
2:20 oh my god no wonder that character always stuck out to me so much, my mom died of cancer when i was 5
Demon vs spirit - maybe in this universe, evil spirits slowly become demons as their hatred and evilness grows.
I mean, in a lot of lore good people become angels upon death. It would make sense that evil people can become demons.
Good theory
I always thought that the implication was that it was a human but the soul is now that of a demon
that one scene when she got hit by the car gotta be one of the best jump scares fr 💀
I’d love a video on the oculus 2013!!
Or some of the spirits in the Insideous films could be like many of the demons in the show Supernatural that were spirits at one time but were corrupted over time and became demons. We know there's no real time frame in the Further and that in it you can tranvel back an;d forth between time, so it's not that farfetch. Just because they have demons in the movie doesn't mean all the demons match those in religious text where they all are fallen angels.
8:00 THANK YOU! So I'm not the only one who noticed this goof nonsense. If he's not home, he wouldn't know she knocked, so when she asked if she woke him up, he'd assume she meant by texting him on the phone, in which case, he wouldn't say "I'm not home" since that makes no sense, he'd say something like "no, I was already on the phone" or something. There are many ways they could've fixed this, but they were stuck in the god's-eye-view trap. 🤦
11:45 Anhedonia means inability to experience joy/happiness/pleasure. Ageusia (no gustation) is the inability to taste. The study on rats that Zac showed wasn't ageusia, the rats were capable of tasting food, they just don't experience pleasure from eating because of the depression, so they don't eat.
17:40 I think the "leave stuff to imagination / imagination is scarier" line is a cop-out for lazy writers to do less work and lazy artists to not try to make something actually look scary. 😒
I interpret the man-who-cant-breathe is specific to Quinn because of her mother the way that Pyramid Head is specific to James because of his wife. The mhcb would be as out of place being recycled for other characters and movies as recycling pyramid-head would be… so he probably will be. 😒
can you do the one that scared people the most. THE HASH SLINGING SLASHER !!
with the new exorcist movie coming out are we by chance gonna see more content to cover the lore?
Bro is wearing a Green Day uniform
Now I've never watched any of the insidious films and I just came upon your video on my recommended so do correct me if I'm wrong but here's what I think of The man who can't breathe
I think when elise said that The man who can't breathe is a spirit that lives in the building I think she was referring to the physical form of the demon, a man who once lived in the building and who I presumed suffered from lung cancer that died alone in the building and at the last moment of his life a demon absorb his soul and along it his grief and loneness.
The demon collecting the souls of the people who he has killed and put into the dark is just him not wanting to be alone in the dark, for some people as part of the grieving process you are unable to recount the face of the recently deceased hence when the souls of the dead are brought into the dark they have no face, hands or feet as one is unable to recount those intricate details or you could remember them wrongly (girl with her head backwards)
One thing that interested me is the black tar and traveling via air ventilation I think it's a knot to the fact that the man who the demon has taken a physical form of died from lung cancer. One of the main ingredient of cigarettes is tar which turns the lungs black and is pretty sticky so as the man who can't breathe travels it leaves black tar everywhere as the cancer. Traveling via air vent symbolises the fact that he is unable to breathe and move freely as he is breathing through the oxygen mask and since the body is stricken with cancer he is bedridden. Also the wall walking also symbolises the fact that he is unable to move much and he wants to get out, to explore the world as the man once did.
He freaks me out so much
Just a comment on Quin and her neighbor. They clearly regularly knock on the walls to communicate and have probably woken each other up before by doing so. So that question has been asked before. Therefore, it's not weird for him to answer her that way because he knew she was referring to knocking on the wall to get his attention.
This demon was the eeriest of them all. It’s the only trailer that had me shook and the movie made it worse
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for an april fools idea, why not review the history of nikocado avocado?
I went to see the Red Door last night, but I had to leave about half an hour in, there was a part (not trying to give any spoilers) involving a ghost and vomit and it brought back some trauma from my last relationship and bothered me too much to be able to stay and finish the movie.
You will never be a Woman. Cope and seeth
So, this video is about George Floyd, I see!
Anyone else think this man can't breathe or is it just me?
Loved this movie! Was super creepy and it had a cool story!