Movie Review - Insidious: Out of the Further

Going in, I missed Patrick Wilson. His absence — and the story of Josh Lambert, the character he’s carried since the beginning — took some adjusting to. This installment hands the reins to a new lead, Gemma, played by Amelia Eve, and once I let go of expecting Josh to show up, I was able to actually sink into her story instead.

Maya (Gemma’s daughter) is the standout here, played with real presence. The cringe factor belongs to Gemma — she’s a dental hygienist, and the movie leans hard into that job, with multiple scenes of her working on patients’ teeth that had my skin crawling in a very specific, mundane-horror way. It’s a smart choice; there’s something about dental discomfort that hits differently than a generic scare.

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Elise Rainier is back, and Lin Shaye remains the one actor who’s been in every single Insidious film. She’s great here, and gets a catchphrase that actually made me laugh — a nice beat of levity in a movie that otherwise wants your skin crawling.

The premise itself is well thought out, and the visual language they use to distinguish our world from The Further is genuinely unique. It’s not just a filter swap — it feels like a real dimensional shift.

Where it falls short is in comparison. Stacked against the earlier films in the franchise, this one doesn’t quite measure up. Taken on its own, though, it’s a fairly good time.

Grade: C+

Plot
Gemma, a young mother raising her daughter in the house she grew up in, discovers she can travel into The Further, where she possesses an ability to bring what lives there back to the real world.