The sixth Insidious horror film, following Gemma, a young mother who can enter the Further and bring beings from it back into the real world.
France has delivered the first useful box-office number for the new Insidious. Out of the Further opened there on August 19 with 42,954 admissions, enough to lead the week's new releases.
The invasion promised by the title ultimately feels much smaller than expected. Jacob Chase still knows how to build a disturbing image, hold a beat slightly too long before a scare, and turn routine dentistry into something almost unbearable. That is enough to preserve the pleasurable haunted-ride quality of a sixth Insidious film. But whenever those set pieces need to connect into a story, the movie retreats into themes and mechanisms the franchise now knows by heart. It is a respectable and occasionally very effective continuation that finds new monsters without quite recovering the invention that once made the Further so unnerving.
