Insidious (film)

Insidious
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJames Wan
Written byLeigh Whannell
Produced by
Starring
Cinematography
Edited by
  • James Wan
  • Kirk Morri
Music byJoseph Bishara
Production
companies
Distributed by
Release dates
  • September 14, 2010 (2010-09-14) (TIFF)
  • April 1, 2011 (2011-04-01) (United States)[6]
Running time
101 minutes
Countries
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1.5 million[7]
Box office$100.1 million[7]

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 boy 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 two sequels, Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013), Insidious: The Red Door (2023); and two prequels, Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015) and Insidious: The Last Key (2018).

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