Jacob Chase’s Insidious: Out of the Further delivers the expected quota of jump scares, along with some creepy (and really gross) squirm-in-your-seat moments - but it’s far too routine to feel fresh six entries in. Yep, the franchise is starting to feel less like a fresh nightmare and more like a very familiar trip through the same haunted house. And yes, you read that right: six films. And if you’ve seen any of the other five, you already know how this goes. But, that’s not to say there aren’t moments of well-done unnerving horror here. In fact, the movie has two standout sequences that prove there’s still (some) life to be squeezed out in Insidious. The first involves a claustrophobic descent inside a pillow fort. It’s incredibly well executed, with a surreal, Backrooms”style nightmare vibe and some genuinely anxiety-inducing camera work that makes you feel like you can’t breathe right alongside the character. The other is a gloriously gnarly dentist scene that pushes the limits of gross-out mouth horror. Is “mouth horror” a thing? Well, it is now. Unfortunately, those moments are the exception rather than the rule. For the most part, we’re back to the same pale-faced, grotesque-looking demons popping out of shadows and lurking just long enough for the soundtrack to tell us when we’re supposed to be scared. The film does loosely connect itself to the original Insidious, but the thread is so thin that it feels more like a franchise obligation than a meaningful piece of the story. To be fair, the new family at the centre of things is effective, but there’s not quite enough emotional weight to make their plight especially compelling. Everything feels pretty rushed and routine, while the big production budget makes the familiar look suitably slick. And that’s ultimately the problem: Insidious: Out of the Further looks great and occasionally gets under your skin, but beyond the jumps and those two genuinely memorable sequences, there’s a whole lot of fairly preposterous nonsense. Six films in, the franchise is running dangerously low on fresh ideas. So, dare I say, it may finally be time to lock the red door once and for all.