Director Jacob Chase nails the polished horror series’ creepy vibes and an inventive dream world that could have benefited from a leaner story.
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©Sony Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection If you’ve always been terrified of dental work and the idea of someone poking around your pearly whites with sharp tools, you’re not alone. With “Insidious: Out of the Further,” the sixth entry in the infinitely inventive horror franchise, writer-director Jacob Chase is unashamed to declare that he shares your fears, while having some gross-out fun with this widespread irrational phobia.
A largely setpiece-driven chapter with a wobbly story but several impeccable vignettes that drill into our deepest bedtime anxieties, “Out of the Further” (like the rest of the films in the series) follows a group of unlucky humans plagued by demonic spirits that live in a dream space called “The Further,” and occasionally travel into the real world to hijack pockets of life and energy. And some of the film’s most impressive frights take place in the dentist’s chair, veering into serious body-horror territory.
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