Insidious 2011

Insidious is a 2010 supernatural horror film directed and co-edited by James Wan, written by Leigh Whannell, and starring Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, and Barbara Hershey. It is the first installment in the Insidious franchise and the third in terms of the series' in-story chronology. The story centers on a married couple whose young son inexplicably enters a comatose state and becomes a vessel for a variety of demonic entities in an astral plane. Insidious had its world premiere on September 14, 2010, at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and received a wide theatrical release on April 1, 2011, by FilmDistrict. The film is followed by three sequels, Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013), Insidious: The Red Door (2023), Insidious: Out of the Further (2026); and two prequels, Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015) and Insidious: The Last Key (2018).