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At least Patrick Wilson still cares about “ Insidious.” A staple of the James Wan-iverse (he also stars in the “Conjuring” series), Wilson makes his directorial debut with “Insidious: The Red Door.” He also stars in the movie, reprising his role as protective dad Josh Lambert from “ Insidious ” and “Insidious: Chapter Two.” In classic “why the hell not?” deep-franchise style, he also performs a hard-rock number with the Swedish band Ghost over the end credits. (Did you know Patrick Wilson could sing? Neither did I.)

“The Red Door” is the fifth, and supposedly final, “Insidious” movie. And, with the caveat that you can never trust a horror franchise to end when it says it will end, it does deliver a reasonably satisfying wrap-up to the story of the Lambert family. They’ve been absent from “Insidious” since 2013, when Blumhouse pivoted to focus on Lin Shaye ’s motherly psychic character Elise Rainier in a string of prequels. (Although she died in the second one, she appears here, because again—why not?) And much has happened while the series was away.

Young Dalton Lambert ( Ty Simpkins ) has grown from a possessed little boy into a brooding 19-year-old art student beginning his first semester of college. His parents, Josh (Wilson) and Renai ( Rose Byrne ), have separated. And his grandmother Lorraine, who played a role in saving Dalton from the evil spirits of The Further, has died. Dalton doesn’t remember his trip into The Further, nor does Josh; the film opens with a scene of the two of them being instructed to forget an entire year of their lives by a hypnotist.

This is accomplished remarkably quickly—if “The Red Door” was an anti-drug PSA, its tagline would be, “Hypnosis: Not even once.” Counting backward from 10 is all it takes to wipe huge chunks of the Lamberts’ minds clean, and those memories resurface just as easily when Dalton is asked to perform a meditation exercise in his painting class. “The Red Door” plays a little with the trope of artists creating possessed or otherwise supernatural works as seen in horror movies like “The Devil’s Candy.” But most of its runtime is spent exploring something less inspired.

Here, Josh and Dalton’s gift for astral projection isn’t just a mysterious phenomenon. It’s that old saw of inherited trauma and mental illness that’s been wreaking havoc on horror movies since “ Hereditary .” This manifests in the form of revelations about the father Josh never knew, which overlap with Josh’s guilt and Dalton’s resentment about the divorce. It’s not the most labored use of the metaphor in recent years—that would be another of co-screenwriter Scott Teems ’ credits, the nonsensical “ Halloween Kills .” But it’s such a rote theme at this point that it sucks all of the interest from the family drama.

Callbacks to other “Insidious” films are half-hearted, and “The Red Door” seems to give up on trying to make all of the pieces fit after a while. What does work are a handful of scares in the film’s first half. As a director, Wilson proves himself familiar enough with the mechanics of a jump scare—clearly, he picked up a few things from working with Wan all those years—to give audiences what they want. An early scene where Josh hallucinates a ghastly old woman while trapped inside an MRI machine is especially well done and ties in with a subplot where Josh seeks treatment for persistent fatigue and brain fog. (Long COVID? Nope, The Further!)

However, once the college-centric main plot kicks in, the movie slowly declines toward an underwhelming finale. Visually, Wilson faithfully re-creates the misty look of the previous films. Tiny Tim ’s “Tiptoe Through the Tulips” warbles in a room full of broken dolls somewhere in the negative space of The Further. This is all fine—as are the jokes, the supporting characters, and the concessions to the film’s PG-13 rating by replacing explicit gore with fake vomit and pancake makeup. Wilson is pretty good as Josh, but that’s to be expected. He’s the one that’s still invested in the whole thing.

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Katie Rife is a freelance writer and critic based in Chicago with a speciality in genre cinema. She worked as the News Editor of The A.V. Club from 2014-2019, and as Senior Editor of that site from 2019-2022. She currently writes about film for outlets like Vulture, Rolling Stone, Indiewire, Polygon , and RogerEbert.com.

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‘Insidious: The Red Door’ Review: The Ghost of Jump Scares Past

Patrick Wilson makes his directorial debut with this fifth installment of the horror franchise haunted by a red-faced demon.

In a film scene, a man sits behind the wheel of a car looking at his phone. Through the rear window of the car a blurry figure can be seen.

By Jason Zinoman

“Insidious,” whose fifth installment opened Friday, is a second-tier horror franchise — it’s not even the best James Wan franchise starring Patrick Wilson, which would be “The Conjuring” — with a few elite jump scares, including one of the best in the genre. In the original in 2010, Lorraine Lambert (Barbara Hershey) is telling her son, Josh (Wilson), about a horrible dream when a red-faced demon suddenly appears behind his head. It’s a magnificent shock because of the askew blocking, the patient misdirection of the editing and Hershey’s committed performance.

In “Insidious: The Red Door,” a grim, workmanlike effort that collapses into woo-woo nonsense, Wilson makes his directorial debut, and demonstrates he grasps the importance of that jump scare, which is sketched in charcoal on paper next to his name in the opening credits. But that reference is also a reminder of what’s missing.

The movie begins nine years after the second “Insidious” at the funeral of Lorraine, and its first scare, a nicely oblique if relatively simple one, once again takes place above her son’s head. Josh’s memory has been scrubbed in the previous film but nags at him, and Wilson doesn’t move the camera from his own face inside a car as he goes through an array of emotions while texting his son Dalton (Ty Simpkins). This prickly relationship is at the center of the movie, as dad drives his son to college. They share the family curse, a habit of being visited by evil figures from another realm called the Further (think the Upside Down from “Stranger Things” ).

As has become cliché, trauma takes center stage, with characters mouthing lines like, “We need to remember even the things that hurt” — which is at least better than pretentious small talk like “Death floods the mind with memory.”

The leaden screenplay would be easier to overlook if there were more spooky sequences. Wilson stages one nicely claustrophobic scene inside an M.R.I. machine, but his peekaboo shocks can be a little telegraphed. And while his placid, android handsomeness can hint at the uncanny, making him a magnetic horror actor, there are fewer standout performances than in previous installments of the series, which has been notable for turns by Rose Byrne and Lin Shaye (both of whom show up again, too briefly). “The Red Door” loses energy when it focuses on Simpkins’s Dalton, a blandly brooding artist type who cries while painting, and the grim doings in the Further, whose aesthetic evokes a homemade haunted house in the family garage.

“Insidious” is essentially a ghost story, so ending it presents a typical challenge. Unlike with vampires and serial killers, it’s not clear how the apparition threatens to end the chase. The abrupt resolution of this chapter is a letdown, but not as much of one as the return of the red-faced demon, who pops up, unobscured, center frame. The result is not a jump scare so much as a bunny hop.

Insidious: The Red Door Rated PG-13 for explicit violins and implicit violence. Running time: 1 hour 47 minutes. In theaters.

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Insidious: The Red Door Reviews

It still feels like a satisfying conclusion to a series of films that have continuously terrified us for over a decade. That alone is worth remembering.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Mar 6, 2024

Similar to Wan’s The Conjuring universe, Insidious has long overstayed its welcome, reaching the point where its spark has quelled and there’s nothing interesting buried within these characters anymore. We have reached the end of the Further.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 17, 2023

The set-up was great, but the Insidious series has lost a lot of its luster.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 11, 2023

Lamentably, this unusual study of family trauma and memory loss gradually loses its shine and capacity to scare. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Oct 5, 2023

The fact The Red Door works best as a family drama rather than a terrifying scare-fest -- to the extent that when the finale takes another trip into the Further is almost feels tacked on -- tells you it’s time to close the door on the franchise.

Full Review | Aug 24, 2023

This latest anemic attempt at a creepy film is tripped up by a fragmented story and lackluster efforts to pass off things that jump out of the dark to an amped up musical track as being scary.

Full Review | Original Score: D | Aug 9, 2023

Earlier franchise chapters featured a few smirkworthy scares and some stylish filmmaking flourishes, but The Red Door is merely an inert, boring drag.

Full Review | Aug 8, 2023

Wilson shows he can conjure (tee hee) some worthwhile bumps in the night as a filmmaker, and it will be interesting to see what he tackles next.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 4, 2023

Wilson makes his directorial debut with this film that is nice enough in an anaemic way.

Full Review | Aug 3, 2023

Insidious: The Red Door doesn't quite reach the heights of its predecessors. It tantalizes us with a few effective scares, but its pacing and character development fall short.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 2, 2023

Patrick Wilson lands some cool shots and Hiam Abass is a welcome reprieve to predictable storylines and tropes. There is a tangible gap in what might have been achieved if the red door opened through expectations.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 1, 2023

Akin to Child's Play 3, Insidious: The Red Door sees grown-up protagonists facing old fears. Despite some flat moments, it's an interesting final chapter.

Patrick Wilson shows some promise for directing and delivers some genuinely well-crafted scares. Unfortunately, the story that spends most of its runtime uncovering events the audience already knows just shows the franchise shouln't have gone further.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.75/5 | Jul 27, 2023

A disappointing entry that, sadly, spends more time recapping the previous films instead of carving its own path.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Jul 24, 2023

Insidious: The Red Door plays it safe and takes it a bit too slow, but it's good performances and nostalgic scares make it worth the viewing.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 24, 2023

This isn't a meaningful exploration of trauma's lingering impact, the current genre go-to, as much as it wants to be.

Full Review | Jul 22, 2023

The fifth Insidious movie starts strong, with fresh character touches and chilling, eerily quiet moments, but it eventually suffers from a sequel's usual diminishing returns.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 21, 2023

While not as good as some of the film in the Insidious franchise this does more than enough to suggest that Patrick Wilson has what it takes to be a decent genre director.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 21, 2023

I loved the father/son chemistry from Patrick Wilson & Ty Simpkins in this chapter in the Insidious franchise, though it could've been scarier overall.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 20, 2023

Takes the laziest of all routes, suggesting that what happened a decade ago shall happen again now in more or less exactly the same way.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 20, 2023

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Insidious: The Red Door review – shoddy horror sequel

Patrick Wilson makes his directorial debut with a labored legacy sequel that should hopefully close the door on the long-running franchise

N ow in its fifth installment across more than a decade with The Red Door, the Insidious franchise boasts an impressive longevity, albeit in a way more damning than damned. The big horror series prolong their popularity on the strength of a monster (Freddy, Jason, Michael Myers and the rest of the Halloween costume perennials) or a narrative device (the self-inflicted torture of Saw, the Rube Goldberg inevitability of fate in Final Destination), but the Insidious pictures have yielded four windfalls over $100m despite a lack of any distinctive features. The unifying premise for hit factory Blumhouse’s reliable yet reliably uninteresting moneymaker dares viewers to wonder “what if there was a creepy thing that jumped out at you, then disappeared?” The closest it gets to a recurring mascot is a Darth Maul-looking phantom alternately referred to by fans as The Man With Fire in His Face, Lipstick-Face Demon, The Red-Faced Demon, or Sixtass, and in any case, he’s pretty light on charisma.

The first few chapters benefited hugely from the steady directorial hands of James Wan and Leigh Whannell, genre guys with strong fundamentals who knew how to use the camera to coax every iota of tension from material unremarkable on paper. This time around, the star Patrick Wilson takes the reins and reveals just how little has held the property together up to this point. Without innovative blocking and framing, each scene follows a rote repetition as clichés of studio-horror storytelling cue up the oldest scares in the book. Some lumpy mumbling about repression and cycles of generational trauma, a figure appears out of focus in the background, a moment of silence to foster a false sense of security, and then the cinematic equivalent of grabbing someone’s shoulders and screaming “BOO!” in their ear. If these cheap tricks garner a reaction at all, it’s to their suddenness and loudness, a knee-jerk agitation nowhere near as affecting as true, unleaded terror.

To his credit and ultimate detriment, the actor-turned-cineaste Wilson set out to make something more pointed from a setup that hasn’t been about much of anything in the past, only to get bogged down in wormy metaphor. Shortly after the conclusion of the second film – the convoluted chronology of sequels and prequels doesn’t gum up the works too badly, at least – the Lambert family has agreed to submit to therapeutic hypnosis so that they might forget the harrowing events they’ve just survived. Ten years later, and Josh (Wilson) has split from Renai (a scant Rose Byrne), while their son Dalton (Ty Simpkins) has grown into a sullen, resentful teenager rolling his eyes through visits with Dad. As a last-ditch attempt to bond, Josh takes it upon himself to drive Dalton to campus for college move-in weekend, and the past decade of dormant dysfunction starts to rear its ugly, Darth Maul head.

The customary gobbledygook about astral projection now buttresses stale subtext concerning the danger of pushing down painful memories, and the struggle to disrupt patterns of inherited injury. This facile psychologizing ties together the most done-to-death notions in contemporary horror, and they’re only worsened by their articulation in half-baked metaphysics and dumbed-down symbolism. When Wilson wants to telegraph that peril is imminent, for example, he color-grades the entire frame to a bright, sanguine red. In his defense, he’s working with the shoddiest script in the Insidious canon, courtesy of the Firestarter and Halloween Kills scribe Scott Teems. The college setting quickly becomes counterintuitive, separating Dalton and Josh in their own threads of plot that leave the action halting and disjointed. (The concept also saddles Dalton with a sidekick who speaks in faux-clever dialogue so irritating that her ongoing survival comes to feel like a missed opportunity.) The writing expends more effort on teasing out the logistics of seeing dead people than making the phenomenon frightening or emotionally resonant. The shambling corpses may as well be bags of meat rather than reanimated people.

Wilson incorporates minor brushstrokes that evince a respect for genre history from a guy who claims Poltergeist as one of his favorite movies, from the ominous font choices to the received Polanski-isms. But even as a lifelong student of the arts with a clear affection for his work, he brings no hint of an individual sensibility to his reintroduction as film-maker, the exception being an over-fondness for pushy facial closeups that’s long been the dead giveaway of an actor taking to the other side of the camera. As he attempts to massage a message into a flimsy container, he shows that he has little to say for himself. A first film from someone with a lifetime of experience on sets and stages should be packed with ideas itching to free themselves; Wilson comes at this like the star of a TV show who’s watched them make it for long enough that he figures he could do it himself.

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Review: ‘Insidious: The Red Door’ is sometimes unnerving, but even evil has an expiration date

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Director James Wan and screenwriter Leigh Whannell have had a massive impact on modern horror movies, not once, but twice: first with 2004’s “ Saw ,” which set off a wave of torture-heavy splatter films; and then with the atmospheric 2010 film “ Insidious ,” a crafty tale of paranormal intrusion. Over the last decade, “Insidious” has proved especially influential, inspiring dozens of movies about haunted objects, creepy kids and grizzled paranormal investigators — all of them filled with slow-mounting tension and assaultive jump-scares, many of them spawning entire universes of sequels, prequels and spinoffs.

“Insidious: The Red Door” is the fifth film in its series, and it seems at times like a conscious effort to remind everyone who’s the genre’s big boss. Wan isn’t involved this time, but Whannell co-wrote the story with the movie’s credited screenwriter Scott Teems, while Patrick Wilson — the star of the original “Insidious” and the costar of this one — makes his directorial debut. This team has produced something that maybe relies too much on the same old tricks, but which is often genuinely terrifying.

Wilson once again plays Josh Lambert, who in the first two films discovered that he and his son Dalton ( Ty Simpkins ) have the ability to leave their bodies via astral projection, thanks to their connection to a purgatorial dimension dubbed the Further, filled with unsettled ghosts and vicious demons who intend to use the Lamberts to help them drain the vitality from living humans. The third and fourth “Insidious” films were prequels that only mentioned the Lamberts in passing; but “The Red Door” follows directly from “ Insidious: Chapter Two ,” which ended with Josh and Dalton being hypnotized to suppress all their memories of the Further.

That cure has turned out to be a curse. Nine years later, severed from an essential part of themselves and their shared pasts, Josh and Dalton have become estranged from each other; and Josh is also now divorced from Dalton’s mother, Renai ( Rose Byrne ). But when Dalton leaves home to study painting at college, his favorite professor ( Hiam Abbass ) encourages him to tap into his subconscious, which begins to unlock his powers. At the same time, Josh starts digging into his own past to figure out why he’s such a jerk to the people he loves. The answers shock him — and awaken him, too.

Anyone who’s seen an “Insidious” movie before (or any of the “Insidious” knockoffs) knows what comes next. Both Josh and Dalton have their daily lives disrupted by visions of rotting corpses creeping toward them and making demands. From behind the camera, Wilson handles the visual grammar of all this well, though there’s no reason why he shouldn’t. He’s following a well-established blueprint. Wan (and later Whannell, when he directed the third film) perfected the art of weaponizing negative space on the screen, keeping the audience constantly on edge by threatening to fill the blurry areas around the heroes’ heads with something monstrous.

That trick still works like gangbusters, and “The Red Door” features several sequences that are “watch through your fingers while slumped down in your seat”-level scary. (A scene where Josh is playing a game of Concentration with pictures taped to his living room window while an evil spirit slowly approaches undetected is almost unbearably intense.) Having two main characters suffering from hauntings separately works against this movie’s narrative momentum, but it does allow Wilson and Teems to bounce from scare to scare, without much setup — or respite.

“The Red Door” isn’t as good as the first “Insidious,” and may actually fall short of several of the “Insidious” clones. But it’s no impersonal bit of brand extension. There’s a strong idea here about how important it is for an artist — any fully alive human being, really — to confront past traumas instead of blocking them out. Granted, the Lambert boys have to face their fears or there’ll be no horror movie. But the point is still well-taken.

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Rated: PG-13, for violence, terror, frightening images, strong language and suggestive references.

Running time: 1 hour, 47 minutes

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‘Insidious: The Red Door’ Review – A Sentimental Swan Song for the Lambert Family

As its title suggests, Insidious: The Red Door , the fifth entry in the franchise, returns to the Lambert family to close the door on their ongoing saga with The Further. Set a decade after the events of Insidious: Chapter Two , star Patrick Wilson pulls double duty for this sequel, making his feature debut with a sentimental entry more interested in exploring buried secrets and family trauma than the paranormal. Less a sequel and more a continuation of Chapter Two , The Red Door gives a tender send-off to the Lamberts.

Flashback scenes from Chapter Two catch unfamiliar audiences up to speed; after young Dalton ( Ty Simpkins ) helps dad Josh (Patrick Wilson) escape the Further and return home, the family decides to suppress their memories. The idea, of course, is to prevent future astral projecting into the Further, closing the door on pervading entities hoping to cross into the real world. Harboring secrets of this magnitude hasn’t been kind to the Lambert family, but a death reopens old wounds as Dalton heads off to college. Old secrets refuse to stay buried, and the door to the Further busts wide open. Father and son must reckon with their past if they have any hope for a future.

Patrick Wilson in Screen Gems INSIDIOUS: THE RED DOOR, Photo credit: Nicole Rivelli

Written by Scott Teems and based on a story by Leigh Whannell , The Red Door evolves the Lambert family in an organic, affecting way. Its central thesis hinges on the erosion of family bonds when memories of this scale get suppressed. What happens when some family members, like Renai Lambert ( Rose Byrne ), must carry the burden of such secrets? Wilson ensures that repurposed footage from Chapter Two presents a clear picture of Josh’s possession and subsequent attempts to kill his family so The Red Door can mine that trauma through the estranged bond between Josh and Dalton. Both separately find themselves on a paranormal journey of self-discovery.

The Red Door is at its most interesting when following Dalton’s explorations of college life as his reawakening connection to the Further pervades. Now a young adult, Dalton’s typical exploration with self-identity out from under his dad’s shadow comes, and college navigation brings terrifying visions vision it. Some stem from his forgotten past, while others bring current nightmares from the Further. Dalton’s newly forged friendship with roommate Chris ( Sinclair Daniel ) breathes life into this more somber feature most of all. Daniel’s lively, more assertive personality brings levity when necessary and helps flesh out Dalton beyond his reserved, aloof artist persona. Conversely, Josh’s past offers little more than a few scares and drawn out questions.

Patrick Wilson in Screen Gems Insidious: The Red Door, Photo credit: Boris Martin

Director Patrick Wilson’s emphasis on family, specifically Josh and Dalton, means the denizens of the Further don’t factor as strongly into the story. Or rather, don’t expect any expansion of lore here. Familiar faces do get brought into the fold, but this is firmly the Lamberts’ story. Wilson does make this franchise entry his own in tone, style, and scares. On the latter, how Wilson toys with sound and tension-building lend unpredictable quality to the scares that render them effectual. But the reliance on Chapter Two footage and a lack of development on the mythology leaves the horror aspect of this story on the underwhelming side.

That it’s so intrinsically tied to Insidious: Chapter Two , complete with Chapter Two footage flashbacks, makes it more inaccessible to franchise newcomers than previous entries. Those hoping to learn more about the Lipstick Demon ( Joseph Bishara ) and the darkest corners of the Further may come away disappointed. The Red Door isn’t interested in the mythology but instead in examining how its ghosts fractured the family and whether their enduring love can make them whole again. Wilson reminds audiences why they fell for the Lambert family in the first place with a sentimental sequel that tenderly bids them farewell. While it doesn’t give a sense of finality to the Further or its ghostly inhabitants, it does offer poignant closure to the protagonists that started it all.

Insidious: The Red Door releases in theaters on July 7, 2023.

Horror journalist, RT Top Critic, and Critics Choice Association member. Co-Host of the Bloody Disgusting Podcast. Has appeared on PBS series' Monstrum, served on the SXSW Midnighter shorts jury, and moderated horror panels for WonderCon and SeriesFest.

Five Summer Slashers to Stream This Week

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Summer’s official start may not be for a few more weeks , but tell that to the weather. The blistering hot sun is already here, bringing with it buzzy box office releases and lots of exciting new horror. That includes this week’s theatrical release of In a Violent Nature , an experimental slasher that frames the bloody events from the perspective of the undead killer.

On the small screen, “ Pretty Little Liars: Summer School “ is currently embracing sun-scorched slasher thrills on Max. So, this week’s streaming picks belong to summer slashers of all varieties, from quintessential summer camp slashers to comedic riffs on the subgenre.

Here’s where you can stream them this week.

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The Burning – MGM+, Prime Video, Tubi

When a group of campers decide to scare the crap out of Camp Blackfoot caretaker, Cropsy, they giggle as they sit outside his cabin window and wait for the worm and candle-filled skull they’ve set by his bed to elicit the intended scare. It goes horrifically awry and leaves Cropsy disfigured. Five years later he’s released from the hospital and sets his sights on the Camp once more for revenge. This summer camp slasher boasts gnarly deaths, gory makeup effects by Tom Savini, and a great killer design in Cropsy.

Party Hard, Die Young – AMC+, Shudder

This European slasher harkens back to the post- Scream slasher craze, but with a modern polish. Meaning if you’re feeling nostalgic for the teen slashers of yesterday, this is a worthwhile watch. For Julia, her friends, and hundreds of recent high school graduates, a getaway to a Croatian island resort is supposed to offer the best time of their lives. Instead, it turns into a fight for survival. It’s a straightforward, no frills slasher under bright neon haze and a contemporary setting. That’s not a bad thing here. While the killer’s ultimate motivation is familiar, the killer’s identity isn’t as predictable. The summery slasher was shot on location at X-Jam, so expect a lot of strobe effects during the rave scenes for those sensitive.

Tourist Trap – AMC+, freevee, Peacock, Pluto TV, Prime Video, the Roku Channel, Shudder, Tubi

A flat tire derails a summer road trip, stranding a group of friends at a secluded roadside museum that’s filled to the brim with creepy mannequins. These mannequins seem to have a life of their own as well as a blood lust. Of course, if you’ve seen this cult classic, then you know there’s much more than meets the eye here. The feature debut by director David Schmoeller ( Puppet Master ) boasts atmosphere for days and one haunting score by Pino Donaggio. Tourist Trap offers one of the best summer slashers not set at a camp. It’s not just the scorching heat that makes now a great time to watch this pick; there’s also a new Tourist Trap movie in the works.

Tucker and Dale vs. Evil – Hoopla, Kanopy

Blood soaked character in summer slasher Tucker and Dale

Director Eli Craig delivers huge laughs through reframing the slasher from the perspective of its hapless “killers.” Tucker (Alan Tudyk) and pal Dale (Tyler Labine) expected a peaceful summer getaway after purchasing their dream vacation home – a decrepit cabin in the woods. Instead, they’re inundated by a snobby group of college kids who’ve mistaken the duo as murderous hillbillies; and they won’t stop killing themselves on their property. It’s splatstick with a whole lot of heart, made even more memorable for its subversion of slasher tropes and the lead performances by Tudyk and Labine.

X – Hoopla, Netflix, Paramount+

A group of aspiring adult filmmakers load up in a van and drive from Houston to the boonies for their production, in the middle of a blistering hot summer in 1979. Their shoot becomes a bloodbath thanks to the property’s unhinged owners. The lean, straightforward narrative gets straight to the goods and never wastes time on heavy exposition. It’s all in the little details and the talented cast making these characters feel lived-in with a shared history. X demonstrates why Ti West should be given full reign to go full throttle on deranged, savage, and intense horror comedies more often. It’s a great summer slasher with a sequel on the way very soon.

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Insidious 5: The Red Door – Movie Review (3/5)

Posted by Karina "ScreamQueen" Adelgaard | Jul 6, 2023 | 5 minutes

INSIDIOUS 5: THE RED DOOR is a direct sequel to the first two movies. In many ways, it’s a deeper story that deals with many realistic and real issues. However, don’t worry, paranormal horror is still at the forefront. Read our full Insidious 5 movie review here!

INSIDIOUS: THE RED DOOR (or just Insidious 5 ) is finally here. Although it is the fifth movie in the franchise, it is effectively a direct continuation of the first two movies. In that sense, it’s more like a trilogy being wrapped up here.

Once again, we follow the Lambert family with mom, dad, and their three kids. Obviously, the children have grown quite a bit older. If you remember the first two movies, it’s not difficult to imagine how the violent experiences could affect the family in the following years. This makes for a deeper and more heart-wrenching story that’s also damn creepy!

Continue reading our Insidious 5: The Red Door movie review below. The movie is out in US theaters on July 7, 2023.

Back to the original story

With this fifth Insidious movie, we are, as already stated, going back to the Lambert family from the first two movies. After a few detours with the third and fourth movies, it’s all the way back to the original story. The Lambert family was the focal point of Insidious (2010) and Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013).

The narrative continues nine years after the events of Insidious 2 , so it’s close to being real-time chronology in that sense. This also means that it is a very good idea to re-watch the first two movies before watching this one.

Is it strictly necessary to watch the first two movies again? No, it actually isn’t, as flashbacks from the two movies are shown throughout to make sure we’re all caught up.

However, if you haven’t ever watched the first two movies, you’re missing basic information about the family dynamic. This will definitely take away from understanding everything that happens in Insidious: The Red Door . There is a lot of heartbreak in seeing the little boy as a grown young man, struggling with things he just cannot remember.

Especially when the evil from “The Further” obviously still remembers him!

The cast is reunited – now with Ty Simpkins in the lead role

And yes, the filmmakers managed to get the cast back together again for this follow-up story. All the actors from the first films are in this movie in some way. And no, that’s not a spoiler, just classic James Wan.

After all, he managed to get both the Jigsaw figure from Saw in the first Insidious movie and the Annabelle doll featured at the bottom of the ocean in Aquaman (2018).

Ty Simpkins stars as Dalton Lambert, while Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne are his parents, Josh and Renai. Also, his younger brother, Foster, continues to be played by Andrew Astor, who also gets a bit more to work with here. Little sister, Kali, was a baby in the first two films and is just in one scene now.

This really is the story of Dalton and his father and the impact the terrible events of the first two movies had on the family. At the end of Insidious 2 (you’ll see it again as the Insidious: The Red Door opening scene), we see how Josh and Dalton Lambert choose to be hypnotized to forget everything that had happened to them.

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However, Renai and Foster, who also experienced everything, are now left having to pretend that nothing strange has happened. Renai in particular has to bear a huge burden as the hypnosis affects Josh more than expected. It may sound like “boring” drama but gives a tinge of very relevant PTSD that offers important depth to the story.

In addition, it gives Insidious: The Red Door an extra layer of psychological horror that works amazingly with the otherwise classic paranormal tale. And don’t worry, there are also still grim creatures and brutal jump-scares along the way.

I personally ended up sitting very much back and deep in my seat at least once along the way.

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Actor Patrick Wilson has taken the lead on the horror movie this time as director. Insidious: The Red Door is his debut as a director, but you definitely won’t notice that he’s new to directing. In fact, I would very much like Patrick Wilson to continue as a horror director, because he clearly has a very good feel for it.

The story comes from Leigh Whannell, who is essentially the creator of the Insidious franchise and its characters, while James Wan was the director of the first two from the start. Leigh Whannell then wrote and directed Insidious 3 .

Leigh Whannell was of course also an actor in several of the films – just as Patrick Wilson has been from the start. The script for Insidious 5 itself comes from Scott Teems, who also wrote Halloween Kills , so he is well-versed in writing new movies in established franchises.

MORE FROM LEIGH WHANNELL Leigh Whannell has also directed The Invisible Man >

To cover all movies in the franchise, I should mention that the fourth film in the franchise was Insidious: The Last Key directed by Adam Robitel . Still with Leigh Whannell writing it. Both James Wan and Leigh Whannell are (of course!) still on board as producers for this fifth installment.

In every way, this movie is a worthy end to a trilogy. Yes, even though it’s actually the fifth film in the franchise. Now we can look forward to the new Insidious spin-off that has been announced. Until then, make sure you go watch this fifth Insidious movie in your preferred movie theater.

Insidious: The Red Door is out in US movie theaters from July 7, 2023.

In Theaters: July 7, 2023 (US) Director: Patrick Wilson Writer: Scott Teems Cast: Patrick Wilson, Ty Simpkins, Rose Byrne, Sinclair Daniel, Peter Dager, Hiam Abbass

In Insidious 5: The Red Door , the horror franchise’s original cast returns for the final chapter of the Lambert family’s terrifying saga. To put their demons to rest once and for all, Josh (Patrick Wilson) and a college-aged Dalton (Ty Simpkins) must go deeper into The Further than ever before, facing their family’s dark past and a host of new and more horrifying terrors that lurk behind the red door.

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Insidious: The Red Door Is a Better Drama Than a Horror Movie

Patrick wilson stars in and directs the fifth film in the horror franchise from james wan and jason blum..

What happens after the horror movie ends? Once the heroes have killed the monster and lived to fight another day, what is life like? What does that kind of fear and trauma do to a person or a family? Those are the questions at the center of Insidious: The Red Door , the fifth film in the Insidious franchise and first since 2013's Chapter 2 to feature the stars of the original played by Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, and Ty Simpkins. It’s a film that has a good heart and the best intentions, but lacks the tension and scares that made the franchise a hit in the first place.

'Insidious: The Red Door': Release Date, Cast, Trailer, and What to Expect

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Insidious isn't your typical haunted house or possession tale. The stories under this franchise all connect under the concept of a dark spiritual realm known as "The Further." Spirits from The Further don't haunt places, they haunt people, and they do it to the death. This sinister story, spooking viewers through the screen since 2010, has stayed relevant through the years and kept fans loyal through the telling of each chapter. It inspired the use of "Upside Down" worlds within our own , influenced the notion of cursed families throughout the genre, and made a name in horror for all those involved in the original film. With four films underway and fans left divided on the reception of the most recent installments, it's finally come time for a new chapter in the Insidious story.

The Insidious movies have non-stop terrifying action, and they make no room for slow, anticipatory fear, and instead utilize the jump-scare around every corner. The spirits and demons in these films don't just haunt, they attack, taking corporeal form more often than not. Sometimes whether they're physical or not is an ambiguous line unclear to viewers when crossed. Each chapter sticks to a standard formula created by the story: an entity takes someone's astral body to the further, and Elise, played by Lin Shaye , must bring them back. Elise is the most pivotal character , even in her death, as shown in Insidious: Chapter 2 .

It's been five years since the last installment of Insidious , and this summer, the franchise will be back for more with Insidious: The Red Door . With actor Patrick Wilson making his directorial debut, and an all-too-familiar cast, the film is making a comeback much anticipated by fans. Here's everything we know so far about Insidious: The Red Door .

Editor's Note: This piece was updated on June 22, 2023.

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Insidious: The Red Door will hit theaters on July 7, 2023 , and will be opening up against Lionsgate's R-rated comedy Joy Ride . The film has received a PG-13 rating and is set to have a 1 hour 47 minute runtime (107 minutes). This Summer will see quite a few blockbusters, so it's just the right setting for Insidious: The Red Door to make its comeback as a big-hit horror film. Since it looks like the film is going back to its roots, this might not be such a difficult task.

Insidious: The Red Door will be released exclusively in movie theaters. As of now, there are no confirmed dates as to when and where it'll be available to stream. The film's distributor, Screen Gems, is owned by Sony Pictures and has a streaming deal with Netflix, so there's a good chance that the film will be available to stream on the service sometime in late 2023.

The official trailer for Insidious: The Red Door was released on Sony Pictures Entertainment's YouTube Channel on April 19, 2023, giving fans their long-awaited first look at the return of the Lambert family.

The final trailer for Insidious: The Red Door was released on June 6 and quickly reminds us that this will be the conclusion of the franchise. The tension builds and builds as we hear the score mixed with the terrifying sound of a squeaky door. And despite the video being called the "final trailer", we also got a new TV spot for Insidious: The Red Door on June 13. See it below:

The cast consists of Patrick Wilson, returning as Josh Lambert, Ty Simpkins as his son Dalton Lambert, Rose Byrne as Josh's wife Renai, and Andrew Astor as Dalton's little brother, Foster. In unknown roles, actors Peter Dager , Sinclair Daniel , and Jarquez McClendon , all relatively new to the big screen, have been cast. Actress Hiam Abbass , known for films like Blade Runner 2049 and Hellraiser (2022), is to appear in the film. Lin Shaye will also be returning as Elise Rainier, with her character showing up through videotapes after being killed off in the second film.

Insidious: The Red Door is said to be the final film and the franchise and will feature the return of the Lambert family who was at the center of the first two films but was absent from the third and fourth entries. The official synopsis via Sony Pictures reads:

In Insidious: The Red Door, the horror franchise’s original cast returns for the final chapter of the Lambert family’s terrifying saga. To put their demons to rest once and for all, Josh (Patrick Wilson) and a college-aged Dalton (Ty Simpkins) must go deeper into The Further than ever before, facing their family’s dark past and a host of new and more horrifying terrors that lurk behind the red door.

The last film, Insidious: The Last Key , was all about Elise revisiting her traumatic childhood, and killing the demons that infested her family. It came full circle as a true prequel, in the end, giving us a glimpse into the Lambert family's dealings from chapter one. Now, it looks like we'll be getting a similar plot in the fifth installment of the series, with Dalton's past coming back to haunt him. We can expect that the film will stick to its franchise's formula, and someone will be making trips in and out of The Further to save a soul.

The film was initially set to be titled Insidious: Fear the Dark , but was changed to The Red Door in March 2023.

Patrick Wilson, one of the stars of the film, is making his directorial debut with Insidious: The Red Door It'll be the first audiences have seen of his directing skills, but it's clear he has the blessings of Jason Blum and James Wan to do so. Producers on the film include Blum, Wan, Oren Peli , and Leigh Whannell , co-creator, and co-writer of the franchise. Scott Teems of Halloween Kills wrote the screenplay for the film from a story by Whannell. Blumhouse is known for its scary good productions such as The Purge , Paranormal Activity , and Get Out , with loyal fans across the board. With a crew this talented it doesn't look like Insidious: The Red Door will miss the mark.

Related: Here's How to Watch the Insidious Movies in Order (Chronologically and By Release Date)

Jason Blum posted a photo on Twitter of him and actor-director Patrick Wilson on set back in August, pictured below.

When filming came to an end, Wilson's wife, actress Dagmara Dominczyk , also took to Twitter with a cute couple's selfie and a celebratory hashtag, happy to have her husband back to herself. Check out the post here:

Insidious: The Red Door - Everything You Need To Know

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The "Insidious" franchise has been freaking viewers out for over a decade, and the spooky series shows no signs of slowing down. After all, when it comes to horror movies, the dead don't stay dead for too long, and demons always have a way of coming back. In that spirit, a fifth installment is on the way and will haunt your local theaters in the near future.

It's been three years since horror fans were last scared by evil creatures from the Further, with "Insidious: The Last Key." That movie grossed $167 million worldwide on the back of a $10 million budget, so with those kinds of numbers, another flick was always going to happen. However, the last two "Insidious" movies saw the supernatural saga focus on prequels, but this fifth film will take a different approach and bring back some fan favorites. What else can we expect from "Insidious: The Red Door" when it finally arrives?

When will Insidious: The Red Door be released?

"Insidious" fans, rejoice — after this sequel was announced in the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the movie finally made headway in 2022. In February of that year, star and director Patrick Wilson said that location scouting had begun, and by August, he also revealed that filming had wrapped.

The next installment in the "Insidious" franchise is set to be released on July 7, 2023, and now that COVID-19 delays are (hopefully) a thing of the past, that seems like it'll probably stick. That means that this horror sequel will arrive ahead of huge releases like "Oppenheimer" and "Barbie," among others, and it will eventually have to go up against them at the box office.

Interestingly, the movie has undergone a bit of a big change in the months leading up to its release. Originally, the fifth "Insidious" film was subtitled "Fear the Dark." Now, it's called "The Red Door," in reference to the ominous passages that have led to great evil throughout the franchise.

What is the plot of Insidious: The Red Door?

"Insidious: The Red Door" will be a direct sequel to "Insidious: Chapter 2," which ended with the Lambert men being hypnotized so they'd forget all about the Further and its demonic residents. The new movie takes place 10 years after the events of the sequel, with the father and son duo dealing with the aftermath of those events. Or as the official plot synopsis puts it, "To put their demons to rest once and for all, Josh and a college-aged Dalton must go deeper into the Further than ever before, facing their family's dark past and a host of new and more horrifying terrors that lurk behind the red door."

As for as additional plot details go, "Red Door" actor/director Patrick Wilson talked a bit more about Dalton and his experiences at the 2020 BlumFest. The character was just a child the last time viewers saw him, and as Wilson explained, "I just latched onto watching Dalton go to college and what does that do? Watching a young man go to college and all the new experiences and feeling like an outsider trying to fit in." So it looks like things are about to get really spooky on a college campus, as Dalton deals yet again with a demonic presence.

Who is starring in Insidious: The Red Door?

"Insidious: The Red Door" will bring back several major players from the first two films of the franchise. Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, and Ty Simpkins are all coming back to face some demonic forces. They'll be joined here by Hiam Abbess ("Succession"), Sinclair Daniel ("Madam Secretary"), Jarquez McClendon ("Attack"), and Peter Dager ("WITS Academy").

Now, here's the big question — will we see the return of Lin Shaye? The actress has played a major part in the "Insidious" franchise, portraying medium Elise Rainier. While her character died in the first movie, she returned in two prequels, and fortunately for "Insidious" fans, she'll be coming back here — courtesy of video footage that's likely to help our tormented heroes.

It's pretty awesome that Shaye is returning to the franchise, as she's long wanted to come back, telling ComingSoon in September 2020 , "It was a really beautiful arc for me to find as the character and in the storyline. Now it's in my memory, and I would love it if there was another one."

Who is directing Insidious: The Red Door?

"Insidious: The Red Door" is marking a really huge turning point for the franchise. For the first time in his career, star Patrick Wilson is set to pull double duty for an "Insidious" movie. The man will both star and direct, and "The Red Door" will mark his directorial debut.

"I'm honored and thrilled to be at the helm of the next 'Insidious' installment, which will provide an amazing chance to unpack everything the Lamberts went through a decade ago, as well as deal with the consequences of their choices," Wilson said, in a statement that was provided to Variety in late 2020. "Directing the movie is both professionally and personally a full circle moment for me, and I am extremely grateful to be entrusted in continuing to tell this frightening and haunting story. Into the Further we go..."

Who is writing Insidious: The Red Door?

A new name is joining the "Insidious" team for this fifth installment — writer Scott Teems, whom you might know as the scribe behind movies like "The Quarry," "Halloween Kills," and the recent remake of "Firestarter."

Speaking to ScreenRant , Patrick Wilson expressed his excitement about working with Teems and making his own directorial debut with the movie: "It's something that I'm super passionate about, and there hasn't been a day since they pitched me the idea that I haven't been all in. It's been a lot of work by Scott Teems, the writer, and me." Fans can only wait and see where Teems takes this hit franchise now that he's helping with the storyline.

Who is producing Insidious: The Red Door?

It shouldn't be a huge surprise to anyone familiar with the "Insidious" franchise to hear that some of horror's heaviest hitters are behind the project. Jason Blum, James Wan, Oren Peli, and Leigh Whannell are all listed as producers, and if you're a horror buff, you know those are some of the biggest names in the industry. Jason Blum is, of course, the mind behind Blumhouse Productions, which was released some of the biggest indie horror hits in recent memory. Leigh Whannell wrote the original "Insidious," as well as the second film, along with directing movies like "The Invisible Man," and he worked with Scott Teems to craft the story for "Insidious: The Red Door."

As for Oren Peli, he produced 2007's "Paranormal Activity," one of the biggest low-budget horror flicks of all time, and James Wan, of course, created the entire "Insidious" franchise — as well as "Saw" and "The Conjuring" — and directed the first film.

Blum talked to The Hollywood Reporter about Wan handing his director's chair to Wilson, and he only had good things to say. "I'm super excited for what Patrick's doing with 'Insidious,"' the producer explained. "Patrick reminds me a little bit of Leigh Whannell in that they are not just actors slash whatever; they are filmmakers as well. They're film buffs, and being film buffs, they look at acting from the point of view of what the final film will be like. And so that actually helps inform them as filmmakers. So I'm always very excited when people like Leigh Whannell and Patrick Wilson want to jump behind the camera."

Is there a trailer for Insidious: The Red Door?

It's been 10 years since the Daltons found themselves up against a bunch of demons, but those evil spirits are back again. As we see in the trailer for "The Red Door," Josh Lambert and his son, Dalton, had their traumatic memories suppressed to keep them safe from the Further. But now, they're both experiencing some pretty upsetting visions. Josh is assaulted in his home, and as Dalton goes to college, his art class seems to unlock something dangerous deep inside his mind. The trailer for "The Red Door" highlights all sorts of messed-up monsters as the entry to the Further opens up and demons come crawling out. Plus, it brings back that creepy little ditty "Tiptoe Through the Tulips," which is sure to send a shudder down your spine. If the official trailer is any indication, it looks like "The Red Door" will be the scariest "Insidious" movie yet.

What will Insidious: The Red Door be rated?

When "The Red Door" opens up for viewers, it's going to be a terrifying experience — albeit a PG-13 one. Yep, the latest installment in the "Insidious" franchise has earned a PG-13 for "violence, terror, frightening images, strong language, and suggestive references."

Of course, we're expecting the film to press the boundaries of PG-13 and truly frighten everyone in the audience. After all, every movie in the "Insidious" franchise has been rated PG-13, and they've all been incredibly horrific movies. So while we might not be getting buckets of blood, that's not really what the "Insidious" films are about. Instead, expect plenty of demons lurking in the shadows, getting ready for some upsetting jump scares .

Where can you watch the Insidious franchise?

If you're completely new to the "Insidious" franchise or just want to revisit all of them before you watch "The Red Door," you can currently find them spread across a few different streamers or available to rent.

The film that kicked off the franchise — and introduced us to the Lipstick Demon, the Further, Elise Rainier, and the poor Lambert family — is available to stream on Max . You can also rent it on Apple iTunes , Google Play , Prime Video , Vudu , and YouTube .

In the sequel, there's something very strange going on with Josh Lambert, and his loved ones must go to incredibly dark places to save his soul. (Also, keep an eye out for a very young Jenna Ortega.) You can stream "Insidious: Chapter 2" on Max , or you can rent it on Apple iTunes , Google Play , Prime Video , Vudu , and YouTube .

With "Insidious: Chapter 3," the franchise shifts focus from the Lamberts to psychic Elise Rainier. In this prequel, Elise gets involved in a supernatural case when a young girl wants help contacting her dead mom. Needless to say, this doesn't go well. You can rent the third film on Apple iTunes , Google Play , Prime Video , Vudu , and YouTube .

Lastly, there's the prequel "Insidious: The Last Key," where Elise must travel back to her childhood home and face an evil she unleashed years before. You can rent the fourth film on Apple iTunes , Google Play , Prime Video , Vudu , and YouTube .

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Insidious 5 first reviews lead to low Rotten Tomatoes score

"A disappointingly anticlimactic conclusion to the Lambert family story arc."

preview for Insidious The Red Door's Ty Simpkins, Lin Shaye & Sinclair Daniel on Patrick Wilson's directorial debut

The fifth Insidious instalment brings back the Lambert family , who kickstarted the horror franchise back in 2010.

Now a teenager, Dalton (Ty Simpkins) is travelling to college with his father (Patrick Wilson), but his college dreams quickly turn into a living nightmare when the repressed demons of his past suddenly return.

Rose Byrne and Lin Shaye also return for the film, which is directed by Wilson.

Related: Patrick Wilson didn't want Insidious: The Red Door to deliver the same scares

Although further reviews will be published as soon as critics who didn't get to see film ahead of time watch it, the ones already out aren't exactly glowing.

At the time of writing, Insidious: The Red Door is currently sitting at 33% on Rotten Tomatoes , giving the film a relatively poor start.

Here's what they have been saying:

The AU Review

"For a film that’s had plenty of time to simmer, it’s even more disappointing that Wilson is unable to move beyond the very tropes he apparently wanted to avoid.

"In making this more a film about Dalton, he’s also relegated to a supporting role (and Byrne even less-so, a shame when she’s the only one in the film turning in solid work), and whilst Simpkins showed promise under the direction of Wan, here he’s such a bore of a performer, which doesn’t remotely help us as an audience to feel invested in his plight."

"While the runtime feels flabby, [Patrick Wilson] manages to create some menacing scenes (a sequence in an MRI machine is particularly effective) without resorting to endless jump scares. That said, you probably won’t be checking behind the couch or losing any sleep after seeing this film."

Fiction Horizon

"Considering the nearly 10-year gap between Insidious: Chapter 2 and Insidious: The Red Door , Wilson could only muster a disappointingly anticlimactic conclusion to the Lambert family story arc."

Insidious: The Red Door is out now in cinemas.

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In this fifth installment of the “Insidious” franchise, director Patrick Wilson (who also stars in the film) takes us back to the Lambert family. Josh Lambert (Wilson) and his son Dalton ( Ty Simpkins ) have been absent from the series since 2013, when the focus shifted to psychic Elise Rainier in a string of prequels. Now, they return to face their family’s dark past and confront new terrors lurking behind the titular red door.

The concept of astral projection into the realm known as The Further remains creepy and intriguing. Lost souls and demonic entities haunt this supernatural plane, and the film capitalizes on this eerie premise. However, “Insidious: The Red Door” struggles to maintain the franchise’s scare factor. The scares feel tired, and the film edges toward a dead end for the series.

Josh and Dalton’s gift for astral projection isn’t just a mysterious phenomenon—it’s tied to inherited trauma and mental health struggles. The film explores Josh’s guilt and Dalton’s resentment following his parents’ separation. While this theme has been used in horror before, it lacks freshness here. The metaphor of family secrets and psychological wounds feels rote, draining the interest from the family drama.

The film attempts callbacks to previous “Insidious” entries, but they come across as half-hearted. The pieces don’t quite fit together, leaving some loose threads unresolved. Perhaps this is fitting for a franchise that never truly ends when it claims to.

Patrick Wilson’s directorial debut shows promise, but the execution falls short. The performances are uninspired, and the cinematography lacks the visual flair of earlier films. The conclusion disappoints, failing to live up to the legacy of its predecessors.

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“Insidious: The Red Door” is flawed from its premise, resulting in a rather boring experience. While die-hard fans of the franchise may find some closure, others might wish they’d left the red door unopened. [2 out of 5].

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Insidious 6: Further News & Info

The Insidious franchise continues with its fifth installment, Insidious: The Red Door , and while Insidious 6 news may not be on the horizon, there are some big plans in the works for the remainder of the series. Horror director James Wan found that he had another thrilling hit on his hands when Insidious was released to the public in 2011, introducing to the world to the Lambert family, led by parents Josh (Patrick Wilson) and Renai (Rose Byrne), and the spirits that continued to haunt them and their son Dalton (Ty Simpkins). While the third and fourth movies branched outside of the Lamberts, Insidious 5 returned to their family .

Ultimately, the two threads that have connected all of the Insidious movies together have been demonologist and paranormal investigator Elise Rainier (Lin Shaye) and the Further itself. The Further is what Elise refers to as the spiritual realm, which is full of dastardly ghosts and ghouls that seek to possess the bodies of humans that are unfortunate enough to go wandering there. Insidious 5 returned to the original victim, Dalton Lambert, set 10 years after the events of Insidious 2 as he is haunted by familiar spirits while attending college. There isn't a ton of Insidious 6 news to go around, however, there are bigger updates regarding the franchise.

Related: When & Where Will Insidious 5 Be Released On Streaming?

The latest Insidious 6 news is that Insidious: The Red Door is hitting theaters on Friday, July 7th, 2023, and it will reportedly be the final in the franchise when it comes to the main chronological story. What this means is that there won't be an Insidious 6 in the classical sense. Insidious 5 marked Patrick Wilson's directorial debut, and he also reprised the role of Josh Lambert. Ending the Lamberts' tale on this note is a good move for the Insidious franchise, bringing its story full circle and closing up any loose ends. However, that doesn't mean audiences won't be going into the Further anymore, as Blumhouse has hinted there are more plans for the Insidious franchise outside the main timeline.

Insidious 6 news is sparse, but it's safe to say that Insidious 6 isn't confirmed. This means that there currently isn't an Insidious 6 release date to look forward to. Though, audiences shouldn't be discouraged or worried that the franchise is dead, as an Insidious spinoff is currently in development , known as Thread: An Insidious Tale . The spinoff will be another feature film to add to the growing franchise. Little is known about the new Insidious spinoff, but Moon Knight writer Jeremy Slater is sitting in the director's chair for his feature film directorial debut, and Kumail Nanjiani ( Eternals ) and Mandy Moore ( Tangled ) have joined the cast.

Related: Thread: An Insidious Tale - Cast, Story & Everything We Know

If Insidious 6 news were to all of a sudden see the film in development, then the cast would be largely determined by who survives The Red Door . The Insidious 6 cast could see Patrick Wilson ( The Conjuring ) play Josh Lambert and Rose Byrne ( Platonic ) return as Renai. The same goes for Ty Simpkins ( Jurassic World ) as Dalton and Andrew Astor ( The Hangover ) as Foster. While Lin Shaye's Elise has died, she returned to the cast of Insidious: The Red Door to appear in archival-type footage and would likely play Elise again. The same goes for Julianna Davies, who plays the youngest Lambert sibling Kali.

In addition, there are a lot of characters from Insidious 3 and 4 that didn't make it into the fifth installment that could reappear for the 6th. It has also been long-rumored that the Insidious franchise and the Sinister franchise could see a crossover. If Insidious 6 news sees this crossover happening, that means the Insidious 6 cast could include the likes of Clare Foley as Ashley from the first film, or James Ransone ( IT: Chapter Two ), Shannyn Sossamon ( A Knight's Tale ), Robert Sloan ( Hero of the Day ), and Dartanian Sloan ( Hick ) from the second movie encountering the spirits from Insidious in a Sinister crossover .

Since there isn't any Insidious 6 news, this means that there isn't a prospective plot for another installment. However, if one were to count Thread: An Insidious Tale as the next chronological entry to the franchise, then there is an Insidious 6 story. The plot description given for Thread seems to branch from the typical storyline. The movie will see Nanjiani and Moore play a married couple who attempt to use a magic spell to travel back in time and prevent the untimely death of their young daughter. Of course, this is an Insidious movie, so their attempt will backfire and land them somewhere in the Further.

The story of Thread: An Insidious Tale is a departure from the norm, but the future of the Insidious franchise truly lies in its spinoffs. The Lambert family's tale was enough to carry three movies, and Elise Rainier got her own stories with Insidious 3 and Insidious 4 . Therefore, to keep the franchise moving, Leigh Whannell and James Wan have to branch out and tell more stories. While keeping characters like Elise and Josh in the background would be a welcome move on Blumhouse's part, an Insidious 6 story with the Lambert family isn't necessary anymore and there are more chilling tales from the Further that could use due attention.

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O n May 17, Blumhouse Productions announced the release date for the sixth installment of Insidious , one of the most well-known horror franchises . Having spanned a total of five movies thus far, the franchise follows the lives of Dalton and Lorraine Lambert, a couple-turned-paranormal investigators who are troubled due to Lorraine's connection with The Further, a forbidden place populated by some of the most evil spirits of the universe.

While the first movie of the series came out way back in 2010, the most recent one titled, Insidious: The Red Door, came out in July 2023 and set the overall series for a change in direction. The movies thus far have majorly revolved around the Lorraine family, however, The Red Door concluded with a range of spirits seemingly entering from the sealed door, as a post-credits scene saw the light being turned on in the room, from outside.

Now, Insidious 6 has been confirmed to be in production and is set to be released on August 29, 2025.

Insidious 6 set to hit theaters in August 2025

While the movie had long been rumored to be under production, the release date has finally been confirmed by Blumhouse Productions. Arguably its most popular franchise, Insidious is set to enter a new phase as the creators attempt to move on from the story that made it extremely popular in the first place.

A mainstay in the world of horror since 2010, the series has been created by Leigh Whannell and had James Wan as the director initially. However, the last iteration, The Red Door, was directed by Patrick Wilson who also starred in the movie.

As per Veriety, the series has grossed a total of $730 million from five projects, which has been a result of a very modest combined budget of $42.5 million . The Red Door grossed $189 million worldwide and the creators will be hoping that the 6th movie in the franchise can build on the success of its past.

While the story revolving around the Lamberts has effectively concluded, Insidious has also recently received a spin-off in the form of Thread: An Insidious Tale. The movie does not have a release date thus far but will be directed by Jeremy Slater and is set to star the likes of Mandy Moore and Kumail Nanjiani.

Amidst such exciting times for Insidious fans, the announcement of a 6th movie does not accompany many details about the upcoming project. The plot details have thus far remained a mystery, with no clarity on the characters the series is set to delve into, for the future.

Regardless, some familiar faces can be expected to return, considering the franchise's tendency to bring back actors from its past. Hence, as fans await more news regarding the upcoming project, the creators will be working on the production for the time being .

While the release date of August 25, 2025, has been confirmed, there are a range of factors that might play a role in postponing it. The rest, as they say, only time will reveal.

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No further details on the project were disclosed, including whether series regulars such as Patrick Wilson and Leigh Whannell would be involved. The newly announced feature is different from “Thread: An Insidious Tale,” an in-universe series spin-off that was first reported on by Deadline in May 2023 and is said to star Mandy Moore and Kumail Nanjiani, with Jeremy Slater attached to write and direct.

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Since launching in 2010 with director James Wan, the “Insidious” franchise has collectively grossed more than $730 million globally. While the series has played musical chairs over the years with distributors, moving from FilmDistrict to Focus Features to Universal to Sony, Jason Blum’s Blumhouse Productions has been behind every installment, co-producing with various other production banners. Screen Gems returns for this new entry after joining for “Insidious: The Red Door.”

Ahead of the release of “The Red Door,” Blum gave an interview with DiscussingFilm in which he teased a lengthy hiatus for the series, saying that that fifth entry “is going to be the last we’re going to see of ‘Insidious’ for a while” and that “It may not be a forever rest, but it’s certainly going to be a very long rest. … There’s not a plan — as there has been with every prior ‘Insidious’ movie — there’s no current plan in place for number six.” If Sony’s new date holds steady, that period of dormancy will have spanned just 25 months.

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Sony has revealed the official Insidious 6 release date for the next entry in the horror franchise .

When is Insidious 6’s Release Date?

The sixth installment in the Insidious franchise hits theaters on August 29, 2025. The film stems from Blumhouse Productions. No further details on the project were revealed, including if series regular Patrick Wilson will be involved.

Insidious 6 is separate from Thread: An Insidious Tale , a new film in the Insidious universe. The spin-off will star Mandy Moore and Kumail Nanjiani as parents who “enlist the help of a spell to travel back in time, such that they can prevent the death of their young daughter.” However, “the consequences, of course, prove to be severe.”

Jeremy Slater will write and direct Thread: An Insidious Tale.

The last film in the universe, Insidious: The Red Door , was released on July 7, 2023. Wilson, Rose Byrne, and Ty Simpkins returned to the series for The Red Door. Wilson also stepped behind the camera for his feature directorial debut. On a budget of $16 million, Insidious: The Red Door became a huge hit for Sony, grossing $189 million worldwide.

The Insidious franchise launched in 2010 with director James Wan and writer Leigh Whannell. The first film spawned two direct sequels and two prequels. The franchise’s films include 2010’s Insidious, 2013’s Insidious: Chapter 2, 2015’s Insidious: Chapter 3, 2018’s Insidious: The Last Key, and 2018’s Insidious: The Red Door. The five films have combined to gross over $730 million worldwide.

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INSIDIOUS 5: THE RED DOOR is a direct sequel to the first two movies. In many ways, it’s a deeper story that deals with many realistic and real issues. However, don’t worry, paranormal horror is still at the forefront. Read our full Insidious 5 movie review here!

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