Sony releases Insidious: Out of the Further on August 21, the sixth film in a series that began in 2010. Lin Shaye returns as Elise Rainier, the role she has played in every previous entry.
Amelia Eve leads the new cast as Gemma, alongside Brandon Perea and Maisie Richardson-Sellers. Gemma is a young mother raising her daughter in her childhood home who discovers she can travel into the Further, the astral plane at the center of the series, and finds it bleeding into the real world.
The setup matters because the last film was supposed to be the last film. Insidious: The Red Door arrived in July 2023 marketed as the closing chapter of the Lambert family story, with Patrick Wilson directing and discussing it as an ending. Three years on, the series continues with a different family entirely.
Shaye told ComingSoon that her reason for returning was not financial. Speaking to Dread Central, she described the premise as "very different than anything we've seen in any of the other Insidious movies." Elise dies at the end of the first film, and Shaye has since appeared in entries set both before and after that point.
Reviews are not out yet. The film opens Friday alongside It Ends, which starts in Los Angeles and New York the same day before expanding on August 28.
Also this week
Hayden Panettiere died on August 16 at the age of 36.
The actress was found unresponsive at a home in Greenville, South Carolina, and pronounced dead that afternoon, according to ABC News and NBC News. Horror audiences knew her best as Kirby Reed in Scream 4, a role she returned to in Scream VI twelve years later. Our full piece is here.
The R-rated cut of The X-Files: I Want to Believe arrived on August 14.
Retitled Vrach Frankenshteyn, Chris Carter's version premiered on Hulu and Disney+ and runs about 98 minutes against the theatrical release's 104, making it the rare director's cut defined by what it removes. Deadline has the details.
Eight new horror titles landed on Friday, August 14.
Bloody Disgusting's roundup covers the week, including the psychosexual thriller Night Nurse and the indie slasher The Boy from Below. Brock Bodell's debut feature Hellcat also arrived the same day, streaming on Shudder after premiering at Fantasia last year.
Scream 8 still has no release date.
Development was confirmed in March, with Nora and Lilla Zuckerman writing, but no cast, plot or date has been announced. The film is expected in 2027.
Out of the Further and It Ends both open on Friday, and reviews for the Insidious sequel should land midweek. It Ends widens on August 28.
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