Insidious: Out of the Further — the sixth chapter sends demons hunting a dental hygienist
The sixth film in the Insidious horror franchise, Insidious: Out of the Further, reaches cinemas on 21 August 2026, and Variety has published its review on the same week the film arrives. Written and directed by Jacob Chase, the film follows a group of humans plagued by demonic spirits that live in a dream space called "The Further" and occasionally cross into the real world. Variety
The story centres on Gemma, a young single mother and dental hygienist played by Amelia Eve. The plot establishes that it is Gemma herself, and not her house, that is haunted — a twist that distinguishes the film from the haunted-house template the franchise built its name on. A 1999 opening prologue shows young Gemma, played by Charli Penton, witnessing the death of her mother.
Island Austin plays Maya, Gemma's precocious nine-year-old daughter. Brandon Perea appears as Nick, Gemma's kindly and supportive cop boyfriend. Lin Shaye returns as Elise, the medium who has been the franchise's spiritual anchor since the original 2010 film.
The film's villain, played by David Morgan, is an old man with rotting teeth who terrorizes Gemma in a dentist's-chair scene — a sequence that Chase crafted with two specific touchstones in mind. The review notes the writer-director had Marathon Man (1976, the Dustin Hoffman thriller famous for its own dental torture) and The Dentist (1996) as references while making the film.
Blumhouse's official logline teases the stakes: "Once the demons realise her power, our world becomes their playground." The studio's film page describes a trio of stalkers infiltrating a quiet suburb and forcing a new family into the astral plane, where they uncover a terrifying truth: the Further is bleeding. Blumhouse
Production was set to take place in Australia, according to Blumhouse's news page. The film's first trailer was unveiled at CinemaCon, the annual Las Vegas trade convention where studios preview their upcoming slates to theatre owners, back in April. Variety
For a franchise that has grossed over $700 million worldwide across five previous entries on modest production budgets, the sixth chapter keeps the formula intact: low-cost horror from Blumhouse, a studio built on producing horror films at a fraction of typical Hollywood budgets. Chase, best known for the 2020 horror film Come Play, takes the reins as both writer and director for the first time in the series.
Two days out from release, the marketing is in its final stretch and the reviews are landing. The Insidious films have historically opened strong and held well — a pattern this latest entry will aim to replicate when it reaches screens on Thursday.
