A childhood home should be the safe part of a ghost story. Gemma is raising her daughter in the house she grew up in, and she finds she can step out of it into The Further, then bring back whatever lives there.

Jacob Chase writes and directs the sixth Insidious film, picking up after Insidious: The Red Door in 2023. Lin Shaye reprises her role from the earlier films, the one thread of continuity in a cast otherwise new to the series: Amelia Eve, Brandon Perea and Maisie Richardson-Sellers lead, with Sam Spruell and Island Austin credited alongside them.

The premise runs the usual traffic backwards. The danger does not have to find Gemma. She can go to it, then carry it home to the room where her daughter sleeps. That puts the threat on her side of the wall, which is a sharper idea than another dark hallway.

Little else about the film is confirmed ahead of release, so the premise and the cast list are what there is to go on for now.