Lipstick Face Demon in Insidious: Actor, Films and Fate

The demon is credited in five films, and the order matters because Chapter 3 and The Last Key are prequels set before the first movie. The sequence below follows release order, with the chronology noted where it changes the picture.

Insidious (2011). In insidious 2011, Lorraine is troubled by a vision of a red faced demon before she calls in the psychic Elise Rainier. Elise explains that Dalton Lambert is not in a coma: he can project his spirit out of his body, and he has wandered into the Further, where restless spirits want to use his empty body to return to the living world. Josh Lambert, who had the same ability as a boy, is hypnotized so he can travel into the Further. He passes through the haunted realm, faces the demon and locates Dalton, and the two escape back to their bodies.

Insidious: Chapter 3. Insidious chapter 3 is set in 2007, years before the Lamberts meet Elise. The demon is not the main threat there, which is a breathing spirit that targets Quinn Brenner. He turns up in the final scene instead, when Elise is back at her home, her dog barks at something unseen, and a red faced demon is shown watching her from behind. As an ending it is quiet and unpleasant, and it ties the prequel to the demon of the first film.

Insidious: The Last Key. The credits for insidious the last key list him too, further down the cast list. That film is another prequel, and its plot centers on KeyFace, the demon who killed Elise's mother Audrey, so the Lipstick-Face Demon is a minor presence there.

Insidious: The Red Door. In insidious the red door, set nine years after the second film, Dalton is a college student who has lost his memories of the Further. After he slips into it by accident and then projects on purpose, he sees the red faced demon from his childhood. Later the demon takes over Dalton's body and goes after his roommate Chris. The demon is the final obstacle in a film about Josh and Dalton Lambert trying to repair their bond.

Insidious: Out of the Further. He is credited again in insidious out of the further, also further down the cast list. The plot of that film follows Gemma Hall and the cult leader Cyrus Lam, and its post credit scene belongs to the keyed demon, not to him.

Insidious chapter 2 turns on the spirit of Parker Crane's mother Michelle and the Bride in Black, and he is not credited in it.

The last demon scene the plots describe is in The Red Door, where he chases Josh Lambert and Dalton Lambert to the red door and Josh holds it shut, but no film states that he is destroyed. After he takes over Dalton's body, Josh frees his son, and the demon chases them both to the red door. Josh stays behind to hold it shut while Dalton escapes, and back in his body Dalton paints over the red door in black, sealing the Further.

What that means for the demon is left open. A post credit scene shows the light above the sealed door to the Further flickering back on. Out of the Further (2026) then credits him again, and the most recent Insidious release has no stated end for him either. As such, the safest reading is that he is never shown to be destroyed. A further sequel has no official confirmation.

That film's post credit scene shows a different demon, one with keys for fingers who locks Cyrus in a cell behind a red door. The keyed demon matches the description of KeyFace from The Last Key, so it should not be confused with the Lipstick-Face Demon.