With this weekend’s grosses, Blumhouse’s "Insidious: The Red Door" has become the biggest horror movie of the year globally at $182.5M, edging M3GAN’s worldwide cume of $180.8M.
The current frame was worth $2.5M from 59 overseas markets for an international cume of $101.8M. The Insidious franchise has now earned over $735M worldwide.
Already last frame, the Patrick Wilson-directed and starring fifth in the franchise had become the highest-grossing of the 13-year-old series.
"Insidious: The Red Door" is a direct continuation of the first two movies and also stars Rose Byrne, Ty Simpkins, Lin Shaye, and Leigh Whannell.
The movie takes place ten years after the events of the second movie and sees Patrick Wilson not only returning to the franchise for the first time since his cameo in "Insidious: Chapter 3", but the horror icon will also make his directorial debut with this highly anticipated sequel.
"Insidious: The Red Door" will see Josh Lambert (Wilson) dropping Dalton (Simpkins) off at the idyllic college of his dreams out East. When the demons of his childhood come crawling back into their lives, however, it beckons them back to the Further to finally close the door on that horrible chapter of their lives.
The idea of the Lamberts' new nightmare came from Wilson. The movie is written by Scott Teems, who co-wrote Halloween Kills, from an idea from franchise co-creator Leigh Whannell.
The Insidious franchise launched in 2010 and was the first collaboration between director James Wan, Whannell, and the horror-loving Blumhouse.
When the latest entry originally opened in early July, it nabbed the top launch for a horror title since 2019 internationally. Domestically, it bowed at No. 1, higher than the last installment’s opening weekend (2018’s Insidious: The Last Key) making it the second-best launch weekend in the franchise’s history behind "Insidious: Chapter 2" (2013) and the top opening for a PG-13 horror film in the last two years.
At the time, Anthony did a deep dive on how Sony resurrected its horror track record with the opening.
"Insidious: The Red Door" notably had a white-hot run in Southeast Asia and is the highest-grossing horror movie of all time in the Philippines. When it bowed there, it scored a record as the highest horror opening weekend ever and the biggest opening weekend of the last year.
Elsewhere, in Mexico at the opening, it marked Sony’s biggest-ever horror launch in the market. The Top 5 offshore markets are Mexico ($13.8M), the UK ($10M), the Philippines ($6.9M), Indonesia ($6.1M), and France ($5M).
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