While there are only a handful of movie franchises that I’ll endure into a sixth installment, I was pleasantly surprised by “Insidious: Out of the Further” last week.
On one hand, it’s the same formulaic storyline drenched in the shadowy mists of the realm of the tormented dead.
However, on the other, we’re introduced to a whole new family suffering from creepy cultists, crazy dead folks, and demons.
Plus, the audience gets to learn more about how living humans can interact with “The Further” – basically a purgatory realm for dead people and demonic entities.
Most of the film relies on unsettling lighting, jump scares and dental horror, but, if you can stick it out – I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
Further is a 2026 American supernatural horror film written and directed by Jacob Chase.
It serves as a sequel to Insidious: The Red Door (2023) and is the sixth installment in the Insidious franchise.
It stars Amelia Eve, Brandon Perea, Laura Gordon, Charlie Penton, and Maisie Richardson-Sellers, with Lin Shaye reprising her role from the previous films.
The flick clocks in at 106 minutes long and is rated PG-13 for strong violent content, bloody images, terror and some strong language.
After her mother Ingrid (Gordon) seemingly has a mental breakdown, a young Gemma Hall (Penton) witnesses her commit suicide in the bathroom before a supernatural force shuts the door.
Years later, Gemma (Eve), now a dental hygienist, is a single mother to her daughter Maya and is dating police officer Nick Mendoza (Perea).
However, Nick has yet to meet Maya and Gemma keeps putting off introducing them to one another.
Gemma and Maya live in her childhood home, and while walking Maya home from school one afternoon, Gemma sees three elderly people walking down the opposite sidewalk pulling what appears to be an oxygen tank.
One night, Gemma astral projects into the Further and is haunted by the memories of her mother's suicide.
In another projection, Gemma is hunted by one of the elderly people and discovers that she brought back a brooch from the dream.
The next day, Gemma is scheduled to have a cleaning with Lester, one of the elderly people.
Lester bites Gemma's finger, causing her to freak out and violently hit her head on the X-ray machine – instantly knocking her out.
Gemma wanders the ghostly version of the clinic and sees several grotesque spirits.
One of them, a blindfolded man, restrains her in a chair where several spirits surround her, and the man chooses one to approach her.
Gemma is saved by Elise Rainer (Shaye), who hands her a book and tasks Gemma with finding her in the real world.
Using the address in the book, Gemma goes to Abandon, a tattoo shop run by apprentice tattooer and psychic Clare (Sellers), who is also capable of astral projecting.
Elise temporarily possesses Clare and explains to Gemma that she is a "courier", an astral projector capable of transporting objects between the Further and the material world.
She tells Gemma that the blindfolded man is planning to use her to resurrect spirits, and that the elderly people are his acolytes who use sedatives to force themselves into the Further.
From there, it’s a constant struggle for Gemma and Maya to survive both living and dead creeps, but the movie does have a happy ending.
You’ll definitely get more out of this movie if you’re a fan of the franchise, but it also can mostly stand on its own.
Also, there is a mid-credit scene that further cements the happy ending in my book, so don’t miss it!
