Every Insidious Movie Ranked, Including ‘Out of the Further’

Horror franchises rarely make it to six installments, but ‘Insidious’ has managed exactly that by staying rooted in the same eerie mythology since James Wan and Leigh Whannell introduced audiences to The Further back in 2010. With ‘Insidious: Out of the Further’ now in theaters, it is worth ranking all six films against each other using Rotten Tomatoes scores as the measuring stick.

The franchise has quietly become one of horror’s most durable earners, with the series having earned over 740 million dollars at the global box office. That commercial success has never lined up neatly with critical reception, and the gap between the two is exactly what makes ranking these films worthwhile.

‘Insidious: Out of the Further’

Coming in at the top of the franchise, at least for now, is the newest chapter. Multiple outlets tracking the aggregator noted that ‘Insidious: Out of the Further’ debuted with an approval rating of 67 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, one percentage point higher than the original film’s 66 percent. That score was based on 39 reviews at the time of publication, with critics divided between praising its fan service and new scares and criticizing its screenplay and effects.

The film moves away from the Lambert family entirely. Amelia Eve stars as Gemma, a young mother raising her daughter in the house she grew up in, who discovers she can travel into The Further and bring what lives there back into the real world, drawing dangerous demonic attention once they realize what she can do.

It was written and directed by Jacob Chase, with Lin Shaye reprising her role as Elise Rainier alongside Brandon Perea and Maisie Richardson Sellers, and it opened in the United States on August 21, 2026.

‘Insidious’

Just behind the newest film sits the one that started it all. Rotten Tomatoes tallies cited across several outlets show the original Insidious sitting at 66 percent, long considered the franchise’s critical high point before this year. That score came from 175 reviews, an extraordinary result considering the film’s reported 1.5 million dollar budget.

The original film introduced Josh and Renai Lambert, whose son Dalton falls into a coma that turns out to be an astral projection gone wrong, pulling the family into contact with The Further. Its modest budget made its box office return especially notable, with the film ultimately grossing roughly 100.1 million dollars worldwide.

That combination of a strong critical reception and a low cost of production set the template the rest of the franchise has chased ever since.

‘Insidious: Chapter 3’

Sitting in third place is the franchise’s prequel entry. Aggregated Rotten Tomatoes figures put Insidious Chapter Three at 56 percent, the second best score in the franchise before this year’s release.

Rather than continuing the Lambert timeline, the film moved backward to tell a standalone story. It centers on a teenage girl targeted by a dangerous supernatural entity, and the reluctant psychic Elise Rainier who agrees to help her.

Made on a similarly modest scale to its predecessors, the film carried a reported budget of 10 million dollars and went on to post a domestic gross of roughly 52.2 million dollars. Centering the story on Elise Rainier rather than the Lambert family gave it a different tone that later installments would return to.

‘Insidious: The Red Door’

In fourth place is the film that closed out the Lambert family saga. Rotten Tomatoes places Insidious The Red Door at a 39 percent Tomatometer score.

The plot follows Josh and a college aged Dalton, who must go deeper into The Further than ever before to face their family’s dark past and a host of new terrors behind the red door. It brought the horror franchise’s original cast back together for what was billed as a final chapter.

Audiences were considerably kinder to it than critics were. The film’s Popcornmeter score of 69 percent stands as the strongest audience reception in the entire franchise, creating one of the widest critic and audience gaps in the series.

‘Insidious: Chapter 2’

Fifth on the list is the direct sequel to the original film, which was a commercial hit but a critical disappointment. It topped the US box office on its opening weekend with takings of 41 million dollars, triple what the original film made in its own debut, and it arrived on Friday the 13th, a release date one analyst called perfect.

The sequel picks up immediately after the first film, following the Lambert family as they try to understand the entity that has attached itself to Josh. Reviews were far more divided than they had been for the original.

Rotten Tomatoes data referenced across multiple outlets places Insidious Chapter 2 at 38 percent, near the bottom of the franchise’s critical standings. Even so, its box office numbers proved there was a large audience hungry for more of the Lambert family’s story.

‘Insidious: The Last Key’

Rounding out the list at the bottom is the film that sent Elise Rainier back to the house where she grew up, forcing her to confront both her abusive past and a demon known as KeyFace. Rotten Tomatoes scoring cited by multiple outlets shows Insidious The Last Key sitting at 35 percent from 110 reviews, the lowest mark in the franchise.

Despite that reception, the film performed well commercially, going on to become the second highest grossing film in the series, earning 167.9 million dollars worldwide against a reported 10 million dollar budget.

The gap between its box office performance and its critical standing remains one of the more discussed disconnects in the franchise’s history, and it is a fitting bookend to a series where audience turnout and critical praise have rarely moved in the same direction.

Now that Gemma has taken over where the Lambert family left off, where does ‘Insidious: Out of the Further’ actually rank for you against the rest of the series.