Insidious 6 synopsis forces a family into the astral plane
Several months ago, we learned that production had started on Insidious 6, which is aiming for an August 21, 2026 theatrical release. Details on the project have been kept under wraps up to this point – but today, the producers at Blumhouse and Atomic Monster have unveiled a plot synopsis!
Creative Team
Jacob Chase, director of the 2020 horror movie Come Play, is at the helm, working from a screenplay he wrote with David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick. Jason Blum, Oren Peli, James Wan, and Leigh Whannell are producing the sequel, with Johnson-McGoldrick serving as an executive producer alongside Ryan Turek, Steven Schneider, and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones.
Synopsis
The story Chase and Johnson-McGoldrick crafted for this addition to the Insidious franchise has the following synopsis: A trio of stalkers infiltrate a quiet suburb and force a new family into the astral plane, where they uncover a terrifying truth: the Further is bleeding into the real world.
The mention of “a trio of stalkers” brings to mind a casting call we saw several months ago:
LESTER: The character is portrayed as he/him, 60s+, BIPOC. Small and hunched, he is a strange and frightening man who torments his neighbor… SUPPORTING. SEEKING UNIQUE, FRIGHTENING APPEARANCES.
PATSY: The character is portrayed as she/her, 60s+, BIPOC. Short and thin, she is a garish and frightening woman who torments her neighbor… SUPPORTING. SEEKING UNIQUE, FRIGHTENING APPEARANCES.
EDNA: The character is portrayed as she/her, 60s+, BIPOC. Tall and thin, she is an eerie and frightening woman who torments her neighbor…SUPPORTING. SEEKING UNIQUE, FRIGHTENING APPEARANCES.
Cast
Franchise star Lin Shaye has returned for Insidious 6 and shares the screen with Amelia Eve (The Haunting of Bly Manor), Brandon Perea (Nope), Maisie Richardson-Sellers (The Originals), Sam Spruell (Legend), Island Austin (I Can Only Imagine 2), and Laura Gordon (Late Night with the Devil).
Blumhouse / Atomic Monster
The Insidious 6 synopsis was unveiled in a press release about the 2026 line-up of Blumhouse and Atomic Monster productions. This year’s slate includes No Me Sigas, which is already streaming on Hulu; the video game Crisol Theater of Idols (coming February 10), the Prime Video series 56 Days (coming February 18), the Prime Video series Scarpetta (coming March 11), Lee Cronin’s The Mummy (coming to theatres April 17), Mortal Kombat II (coming to theatres May 8), Obsession (coming to theatres May 15), Other Mommy (coming to theatres October 9), the undated video game Grave Seasons, and, of course, Insidious 6.
The Lost Spin-Off
Back in January of 2022, we heard that Insidious franchise creator James Wan was producing a “Back to the Future meets Aliens” project that was set to be written and directed by Jeremy Slater, creator of the The Exorcist television series and head writer on the Marvel / Disney+ show Moon Knight. As the Wan / Blumhouse collaboration Insidious: The Red Door, the fifth film in that series, made its way out into the world in 2023, it was revealed that Slater’s movie was a spin-off called Thread: An Insidious Tale, which had Mandy Moore (This Is Us) and Kumail Nanjiani (Eternals) on board to star in it as a husband and wife who enlist the help of a spell to travel back in time, such that they can prevent the death of their young daughter. The consequences, of course, prove to be severe.
Wan told Screen Rant that Thread could turn out to be the first of several Insidious spin-offs. He said, “Thread basically kind of takes off from the world of The Further in the same way that when I look at my Conjuring films, I go, “Hey, the Warrens have a haunted museum, there’s so many different haunted artifacts that we can kind of spin off stories from,” and Thread really is something in that same spirit. Leigh Whannell and I had kind of built this place called The Further in the Insidious world, and we just felt like there were many stories within that that we can tell, and this is one of the potential stories that we’re hoping to kind of get out there with the spin-off.“
That project has never made it into production, and we’re waiting to see if it ever will.
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