Last year’s Insidious: The Red Door was something of a gamble. The fifth film in the long-running Insidious franchise (which kicked off all the way back in 2010, if you can believe such a year ever existed), it was directed by one of the series’ leads, Patrick Wilson, who’d never helmed a feature film before. It was also the first Insidious film to hit theaters since 2018’s Insidious: The Last Key, making it something of a canary-in-a-coalmine, one that would determine whether or not the franchise still had any life left in it.
If we’re being honest, the trailers for Insidious: The Red Door did not inspire confidence. Maybe it was the “been there, done that” feeling that accompanies the release of any fifth entry in a franchise; maybe it was the fact that the trailers themselves weren’t particularly interesting. Whatever the case may be, Insidious: The Red Door felt like a giant question mark right up until it hit theaters … at which point it turned out to be an obvious hit. The film outperformed its opening weekend projections ($18-23M) with a startling $33M, and it didn’t stop there: Wilson’s film went on to rake in a whopping $189.5M worldwide. Was there any life left in this franchise? You’re goddamn right there was.
As such, we should not be surprised to learn – as we did late last night- that a new Insidious film will hit theaters next summer. August 29th, 2025, to be precise.
Here’s what Deadline has to say about the film:
“Sony has dated a new film in its Insidious horror franchise from Blumhouse Productions for release on August 29, 2025, the studio revealed Thursday evening. No further details about the project were disclosed, but this is not the Jeremy Slater-helmed Thread: An Insidious Tale, a spin-off starring Mandy Moore and Kumail Nanjiani, on which we were first to report.”
Yes, the Insidious hitting theaters next summer is not to be confused with the Jeremy Slater-directed Thread: An Insidious Tale, which has completed filming but does not yet have a release date (IMDb indicates Thread will arrive in 2025, as well, but that might change if another Insidious is landing smack dab in the middle of the year).
Will Patrick Wilson return to helm the next installment of the franchise? Will the new Insidious have any connection to Thread: An Insidious Tale? Who’s writing the new Insidious, and who will star in it? These are all questions we do not currently have the answer to, but which will need to be answered by the good folks at Blumhouse – and very soon – in order to meet their already-announced release date.
We will, of course, keep you informed as further updates on the new Insidious roll in. Stay tuned, folks.
