Insidious Movies: Every Film, Watch Order and What Comes Next

The Insidious series is a supernatural horror saga of six films about ordinary families who collide with the Further, a realm of restless spirits, and with the medium Elise Rainier, who keeps turning up to help. Each film starts in a recognizable place, a new house, a cramped apartment, a college campus, and then breaks the rules of that place one noise or sighting at a time.

Insidious (2011), directed by James Wan, opened in the US on April 1, 2011 on a $1.5 million budget and went on to earn about $100 million worldwide. Josh and Renai Lambert move into a new house with their sons Dalton and Foster and their baby daughter. Dalton falls from a ladder in the attic, cannot be woken the next day, and doctors find no medical cause. Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013), also directed by Wan, picks up straight after, with Josh the main suspect in Elise's death and the family sheltering in his mother Lorraine's house. Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015) is a prequel and the directing debut of Leigh Whannell, set in 2007 around the teenager Quinn Brenner. Insidious: The Last Key (2018), directed by Adam Robitel, is another prequel, with a 1953 prologue in Five Keys, New Mexico. Insidious: The Red Door (2023) is directed by its star Patrick Wilson and jumps nine years past the second film. Insidious: Out of the Further (2026), directed by Jacob Chase, follows a new lead, Gemma Hall, who learns she is a courier able to move objects between the Further and the real world.

Is Insidious creepy? Yes, though the films carry a PG-13 rating in the US, a 15 in the UK and an M in Australia. As opinion, the creature design does most of the work: the Lipstick-Face Demon is a figure that shows up where a family thinks it is safe, and KeyFace in The Last Key is a demon with keys for fingers, which is a very clear idea of how a monster should work. It could be argued that the series lasts because it keeps one simple rule in view, that the dead and the demons live in a place the living can enter, and then asks each new family what that costs them.

The filmmaking team has stayed unusually stable. Joseph Bishara has scored all six films and is also credited on screen as the Lipstick-Face Demon in the first and third films, and as the Lipstick Demon in The Red Door. Whannell wrote and co-created the series, and also plays Specs, who works alongside Elise with Angus Sampson's Tucker. For the full cast and crew by film, see Insidious cast, and for the story across eras, see the Insidious timeline.

Where you can stream the Insidious movies depends on the country, and the newest film is rent or buy only in all three of the US, UK and Australia as of November 3, 2026. The data comes from JustWatch via TMDB, and services change often, so the full table is on where to watch Insidious.

Is Insidious 1 on Netflix? Not in the US. Insidious (2011) is included with a subscription on Shudder, AMC Plus, MGM Plus, YouTube TV and the Sony Pictures Core Amazon channel, and it is free with ads on Fawesome. In the UK it is on Netflix and HBO Max, and in Australia it is on Stan.

Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 are on Netflix in the US and UK and on Stan in Australia. The Last Key is on HBO Max in the US, on Amazon Prime Video, Sky Go and Now TV Cinema in the UK, and on Stan in Australia. The Red Door streams on Hulu and HBO Max in the US and on Stan in Australia, and it is rent or buy only in the UK. Out of the Further can be rented or bought on services such as Amazon Video and the Apple TV Store.

If you want the music as well, the Insidious soundtrack page covers Bishara's scores, and Insidious merchandise covers collectibles. Our Insidious reviews index will list verdicts as they are written.