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‘Insidious’ is Back with a New Cast and Story, and it Looks… Scarier?

It looks like we’re moving on from the Lamberts in the sixth film of the franchise. But Elise is still here, of course

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Insidious Out of the Further
The Further comes out of our world this time. Photo from Columbia Pictures

It’s been three years since we’ve seen the Lamberts in Insidious: The Red Door, which turned out to be a direct sequel to the second Insidious film. The long and winding road to the fate of Renai, Josh, Dalton, and The Further, the purgatorial realm of the franchise, but we’re back again this year with Insidious: Out of the Further with a new family to scare. 

Lin Shaye reprises her iconic role as Elise, who manifests through a new medium (played by Maisie Richardson-Sellers). This time, they help a distraught mother and dentist, Gemma (Amelia Eve), who is raising her daughter in the house she grew up in (not a good sign in the world of Insidious). Gemma starts having nightmares (of course) and discovers she can travel into The Further, but with one caveat, as Elise mentions, “she can bring demons back to the human world.”  

Brandon Perea (Nope, The OA) is also here to be terrified.

Jacob Chase (Come Play) is directing with Jason Blum, Oren Peli, James Wan, and Leigh Whannell also returning as producers. 

Insidious: Out of the Further is in theaters beginning August 19.

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Insidious: Out of the Further centers on Gemma, a young mother raising her daughter in her childhood home. Upon discovering she can enter the supernatural realm known as The Further, Gemma realizes her visits risk transporting demonic entities back into the real world.

Lin Shaye reprises her role as parapsychologist Elise Rainier in Insidious: Out of the Further. In the film, Elise’s spirit manifests through a new medium, played by Maisie Richardson-Sellers, to guide the new protagonists.

Insidious: Out of the Further is directed by Jacob Chase, known for his work on Come Play. Franchise creators and veteran horror producers James Wan, Leigh Whannell, Jason Blum, and Oren Peli return to produce the installment.

Insidious: Out of the Further shifts focus away from the Lambert family featured in previous installments, introducing a new set of characters led by Amelia Eve and Brandon Perea while expanding the lore of The Further.

Insidious: Out of the Further is scheduled to open in theaters starting August 19 in international territories, following its primary global release rollout.

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Don Jaucian

Don Jaucian

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Don Jaucian is one the leading cultural writers and critics today. His extensive list of accomplishments include being an editor in broadsheets, magazines, and digital publications as well as consultant for Udine, Italy’s Far East Film Festival. He is the author of two books: Brief Histories (2022) and Are You Still Watching? (2025).

For Rolling Stone Philippines, he has written about film and television and has interviewed the likes of international filmmaker Isabel Sandoval, director and FIlm Development Council of the Philippines chairman Jose Javier Reyes, and media mogul Vic Del Rosario, Jr.

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