Insidious: Out of the Further review — the new horror movie is the franchise's scariest yet, but that doesn't mean it's good

Insidious , we meet again.

For the sixth time, in fact.

It's become one of the world's biggest horror franchises but the new horror movie is making me question whether or not it needs to carry on at all.

I should preface this largely negative review by saying that I was a huge fan of the first Insidious movie, and have been a fan of James Wan's ever since Saw .

So it truly does pain me to say I did not have a good time with Insidious: Out of the Further, because I went in hoping to see an intriguing new entry, but what followed was almost entirely predictable.

Recently, we have seen some good horror sequels.

Take a look at Saw X for example, which is infinitely better than some of the movies that came before it (I still can't get over how bad Jigsaw is).

But Insidious: Out of the Further feels like a way to profit from the popular franchise without really adding much to it.

It's a shame, because it did have potential.

Here, Alice Eve plays Gemma, a young mother who is raising her daughter in her childhood home.

She lives a normal life until she discovers she can travel into The Further, which is a purgatorial realm of lost souls.

Gemma realizes she can bring what lives in The Further back to the real world, which is great news for demonic entities who use Gemma to their full advantage.

Cue carnage unfolding in our realm, and plenty of evil round the corner.

I first saw Alice Eve in Netflix 's The Haunting of Bly Manor , and she is undoubtedly the best thing about Insidious: Out of the Further .