The Insidious films are merely a taste of the actress’ near four-decade-spanning resume and today, we’re grabbing nine of our favorite Lin Shaye performances from that resume and sharing them with you, to celebrate one of our greatest character performers and remind us all how lucky us film fans are to have her.
An Insidious film without Shaye wouldn’t be right.
She’s well aware of the blackly comic Grand Guignol pulp underpinnings that propel the films’ narrative, but she’s not letting that crack her performance. And that’s the thing about Lin Shaye.