Insidious is the Blumhouse supernatural horror franchise, and Google Search interest jumped in the first full week after Insidious: Out of the Further opened. Trends MCP records the keyword insidious at 65 for the week of August 22 2026, up from 19 on August 15 and 6 on July 25. That is a series-derived +983.33% 30-day rise and +1525.0% over 90 days from 4 on May 23. get_growth returns +242.11% over 7 days (19 to 65) and +983.33% over 30 days (6 to 65), matching the weekly series endpoint. On boards as of August 26 2026 20:01 UTC, insidious ranked 25 on Google Trends, insidious 6 ranked 12, and Insidious: Out of the Further ranked 5 on IMDb MOVIEmeter. Data pulled August 26 2026 from source google search.
About Insidious
Insidious: Out of the Further is the sixth Insidious film, written and directed by Jacob Chase for Blumhouse and Sony, with a United States theatrical opening on August 21 2026 after an August 18 premiere at AMC The Grove 14 in Los Angeles. Amelia Eve stars as Gemma Hall; Lin Shaye returns as Elise Rainier.
Leigh Whannell created the series in 2010. Jason Blum, Oren Peli, James Wan, and Whannell produce. Brandon Perea and Maisie Richardson-Sellers co-star. Wikipedia's plot summary, retrieved August 26 2026, calls Gemma a courier who can carry objects and spirits between The Further and the living world. Principal photography ran from September 29 2025 to November 13 2025 at Docklands Studios Melbourne. The working title Insidious: The Bleeding World was replaced in April 2026.
Wikipedia records a 106-minute runtime, an $18 million budget, and $62.2 million in worldwide box office as of the August 26 2026 retrieval from The Numbers and Box Office Mojo. Deadline's August 23 2026 Sunday update, cited there, put the opening above $25 million. Rotten Tomatoes stood at 56% from 105 reviews with a 5.6/10 average; Metacritic assigned 47 from 26 critics; CinemaScore logged a C+.
What the time series shows
The Google Search curve for insidious lived in a 3-8 band for most of 2021 through 2025, with Halloween lifts of 8 on November 6 2021 and 7 on November 1 2025, then one theatrical spike around The Red Door. That 2023 window printed 23 on July 1, 98 on July 8, a 100 peak on July 15, 59 on July 22, then 39 on July 29 before fading to 13 by August 26 2023.
The 2026 climb started from 4 on July 4, then 5 on July 11 and July 18, 6 on July 25, 9 on August 1, 14 on August 8, 19 on August 15, and 65 on August 22, the first week covering the August 21 opening. An earlier 11 on April 18 2026 sat next to the April 11 title reveal. Same-week prints were 5 on August 23 2025 and 4 on August 24 2024. The latest 30-day absolute move is 59 points (6 to 65) against a prior 30-day absolute move of 2 points (4 on June 20 to 6 on July 25). Week-over-week percent-change sample standard deviation across the last 52 nonzero steps is 52.99%. The 261-week series first prints on August 28 2021 at 4.
A prior store of this page, pulled August 24 2026, had held 56 for the week of August 22 and a 91 peak on July 15 2023. The August 26 2026 reprint moved the opening week to 65 and renormalized the 2023 peak to 100. The Last House is the nearest horror-film topic still climbing on the same Google Search source, at +233.33% over 30 days (12 to 40) while falling 60.0% over 7 days (100 to 40), recent date August 22 2026.
How Insidious ranks on August 26 boards
Live boards pulled August 26 2026 at 20:01 UTC put the franchise on two search surfaces and one film meter, which is a drop from the August 24 2026 store that had insidious at 3 on Google Trends and Insidious: Out of the Further at 13 on Wikipedia Trending. Google Trends now lists insidious 6 at rank 12 and insidious at rank 25. IMDb MOVIEmeter lists Insidious: Out of the Further (2026) at rank 5, behind The Odyssey, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, The End of Oak Street, and Mutiny.
Wikipedia Trending's top 25 on the same timestamp has no Insidious title. get_growth on the companion query insidious 6, same source and pull, returns +340.91% over 7 days (22 to 97) and +1516.67% over 30 days (6 to 97). Lanterns, another current-release neighbor on Google Search, sits at 100 with +244.83% over 7 days (29 to 100) and +566.67% over 30 days (15 to 100). YouTube interest for insidious, checked only as a second story source, is 62 for the week of August 22 with +210.0% over 7 days (20 to 62); that curve's last-52 week-over-week sample standard deviation is 74.33%, noisier than the Google Search 52.99%, so the stored series stays on google search.