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It's a spooky cover of a '90s classic.
Insidious: The Red Door spoilers follow.
The newest Insidious movie has officially landed in cinemas, but fans may not know there's a secret behind the end credits song.
If you're up on your '90s pop music, you may have recognised the closing tune as a cover of the Shakespears Sister's 1992 classic 'Stay', though this version is somehow even spookier than the original.
The Swedish band Ghost performs the track with vocals from Insidious franchise star Patrick Wilson — who has a musical theatre background that he puts to good use on this version of 'Stay'.
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Wilson explained in the production notes for the movie that he felt the song's ethereal lyrics could fit his Insidious character Josh perfectly.
"Once this song came up – a song that Ghost's label sent me, and that Tobias Forge, who is Ghost, was game for – I thought it would be something cool and very different," Wilson explained. "It's obviously me singing, but you can take it from the perspective of Josh singing.
"But is it good Josh or bad Josh? And when Tobias comes in, who is this tempter? Is it the devil? Is it the Lipstick Demon? Like the whole movie, the song is the balance of light and dark and meeting both."
As mentioned, Wilson actually got his break on the Broadway stage when he was an understudy in Miss Saigon, and would later belt out Broadway tunes in The Full Monty, Oklahoma! and Carousel.
His cover of 'Stay' plays just after his character Josh's climactic encounter with Lipstick-Face Demon, though this doesn't seem to be their final battle if the post-credits scene is anything to go by.
The actor was quite busy in the production process, as not only did he star in the film and sing the closing credits song, but he also directed The Red Door.
Wilson has subsequently explained why the types of scares in Insidious: The Red Door may differ from anything fans have seen in the franchise before.
Insidious: The Red Door is out now in cinemas.
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