Insidious 6 Isn’t the Finale—Lin Shaye Says the Scares Are Just Beginning
Lin Shaye says Insidious 6 won’t slam the door on the franchise—or her career. The Further is still wide open.
Quick update from the Further: if you heard whispers that the next Insidious is the franchise swan song (or that Lin Shaye is hanging it up), nope. That door is very much not closing.
So, is Insidious ending?
Rumors started floating after The Red Door that either that film or the upcoming Insidious 6 was the finale. Lin Shaye jumped on social to squash it and, honestly, did not mince words.
"False information that this Insidious is 'my last film' and/or is 'last film of the franchise'! False news. We are just getting started!"
Message received: Elise isn’t done, and neither is this series.
What Insidious 6 looks like right now
Cameras rolled a couple months back and wrapped earlier this month. The plan is to hit theaters on August 21, 2026. Jacob Chase, who directed 2020’s Come Play, is steering this one and co-wrote the script with David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick.
- Director: Jacob Chase (Come Play)
- Writers: Jacob Chase and David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick
- Producers: Jason Blum, Oren Peli, James Wan, Leigh Whannell
- Executive producers: David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick, Ryan Turek, Steven Schneider, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones
- Cast: Lin Shaye, Amelia Eve (The Haunting of Bly Manor), Brandon Perea (Nope), Maisie Richardson-Sellers (The Originals), Sam Spruell (Legend), Island Austin (I Can Only Imagine 2), Laura Gordon (Late Night with the Devil)
Plot details are locked up for now, but with Shaye planting a flag like that, it sure sounds like 6 is a step, not a stop.
The spin-off that could still happen
Quick bit of franchise lore: back in January 2022, James Wan lined up a genre mash-up from Jeremy Slater (created The Exorcist TV series, head wrote Moon Knight). It evolved into a spin-off titled Thread: An Insidious Tale. As The Red Door rolled out in 2023, we learned Mandy Moore and Kumail Nanjiani were set to star as a married couple who use a spell to time-hop and save their daughter, only to unleash the predictable chaos that comes with messing with fate.
Wan has said the idea springs from all the stories lurking in the Insidious sandbox, specifically the Further, and that Thread was conceived as the first of multiple spin-offs exploring that space. The catch: Thread hasn’t gone into production yet. Still on the table, just not shooting.
The takeaway
Insidious 6 is in the can, dated for 2026, and loaded with new and familiar faces. Lin Shaye is not retiring, and the franchise isn’t tapping out. And if Thread eventually gets moving, the Further could get a lot bigger than the mainline films.
How are you feeling about more Insidious after 6? And who do you want front and center if those spin-offs finally land?