Chapter 1 | Insidious

He stumbles into the —not yet the foggy, red-lit purgatory we know, but a raw, shifting nightmare of memories, screams, and shadow. There, he finds young Samuel, terrified, hiding in a fractured version of the farmhouse. But something else notices Harold’s intrusion: The Red-Faced Demon .

Their lives change when they are called to a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse. A five-year-old boy, , has inexplicably fallen into a coma-like state. His body remains alive, but his eyes are wide open—black as coal. Doctors are baffled. The boy’s grandmother whispers of an old spirit door in the attic, sealed shut with salt and iron. insidious chapter 1

Tagline: Every possession has a beginning. Every demon has a first prey. He stumbles into the —not yet the foggy,

Insidious: Chapter 1 rewinds to 1969, following (played by a grizzled, obsessive actor), a brilliant but arrogant parapsychologist who has spent years trying to prove that consciousness survives death. Unlike the cautious Elise, Harold believes the living have a right to explore the afterlife. His wife, Margaret , a nurse, fears his experiments are tearing their family apart. Their lives change when they are called to

Desperate to prove his theories, Harold performs an unauthorized ritual using hypnosis and EEG feedback, intending to project his consciousness into the boy’s mind. Instead, he tears a hole between worlds.