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  "id": "insidious",
  "title": "Insidious",
  "description": "The Lambert family, Elise Rainier and the stories of the Further.",
  "continuities": [
    {
      "id": "screen",
      "label": "Shared screen universe",
      "note": "The connected films and Spectral Sightings. Promotion remains labelled separately; an unknown date does not create an invented alternate timeline."
    }
  ],
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    {
      "id": "insidious-chapter-3",
      "title": "Insidious: Chapter 3",
      "type": "Film",
      "date": "2007 (est.)",
      "order": 2007,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2015-06-05",
      "description": "Elise helps Quinn Brenner and forms the team seen in the later films.",
      "note": "Prequel / sequel relationship cross-checked. Approximate year anchors and embedded flashbacks need direct frame verification.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "order",
        "crosscheck",
        "insidiouschapter3"
      ],
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Approximate year / supported relative order",
      "inspection": "Publication/source checked; full work not inspected",
      "continuity": "screen",
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ZAQQEFY",
      "productName": "Insidious: Chapter 3 — corresponding digital movie",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official edition; stock and regional playback can change.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "railLabel": "2007",
      "estimated": true
    },
    {
      "id": "insidious-the-last-key",
      "title": "Insidious: The Last Key",
      "type": "Film",
      "date": "2010 (est.); earlier 1953 / 1966 memories",
      "order": 2010,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2018-01-05",
      "description": "Elise returns to her childhood home.",
      "note": "Prequel / sequel relationship cross-checked. Approximate year anchors and embedded flashbacks need direct frame verification.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "order",
        "crosscheck",
        "insidiousthelastkey"
      ],
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Approximate year / supported relative order",
      "inspection": "Publication/source checked; full work not inspected",
      "continuity": "screen",
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078F151RD",
      "productName": "Insidious: The Last Key — corresponding digital movie",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official edition; stock and regional playback can change.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "railLabel": "2010",
      "estimated": true
    },
    {
      "id": "insidious",
      "title": "Insidious",
      "type": "Film",
      "date": "2010 (est.)",
      "order": 2010.2,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2011-04-01",
      "description": "Dalton’s unexplained coma draws the Lamberts into the Further.",
      "note": "Prequel / sequel relationship cross-checked. Approximate year anchors and embedded flashbacks need direct frame verification.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "order",
        "crosscheck",
        "insidious"
      ],
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Approximate year / supported relative order",
      "inspection": "Publication/source checked; full work not inspected",
      "continuity": "screen",
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008Y7D4FY",
      "productName": "Insidious — corresponding digital movie",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official edition; stock and regional playback can change.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "railLabel": "2010",
      "estimated": true
    },
    {
      "id": "insidious-chapter-2",
      "title": "Insidious: Chapter 2",
      "type": "Film",
      "date": "Immediately after Insidious; est. 2010",
      "order": 2010.3,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2013-09-13",
      "description": "The Lamberts confront the aftermath of Josh’s journey.",
      "note": "Prequel / sequel relationship cross-checked. Approximate year anchors and embedded flashbacks need direct frame verification.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "order",
        "crosscheck",
        "insidiouschapter2"
      ],
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Approximate year / supported relative order",
      "inspection": "Publication/source checked; full work not inspected",
      "continuity": "screen",
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BQNZVZKT",
      "productName": "Insidious: Chapter 2 — corresponding digital movie",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official edition; stock and regional playback can change.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "railLabel": "2010",
      "estimated": true
    },
    {
      "id": "insidious-the-red-door",
      "title": "Insidious: The Red Door",
      "type": "Film",
      "date": "Nine years after Chapter 2; est. 2019",
      "order": 2019,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2023-07-07",
      "description": "Josh and college-age Dalton revisit suppressed memories.",
      "note": "Nine-year interval from the Lambert aftermath, not nine years from its theatrical release. Approx. 2019 depends on the provisional 2010 anchor.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "order",
        "crosscheck",
        "insidiousthereddoor"
      ],
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Approximate year / supported relative order",
      "inspection": "Publication/source checked; full work not inspected",
      "continuity": "screen",
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B7YXGFJW",
      "productName": "Insidious: The Red Door — corresponding digital movie",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official edition; stock and regional playback can change.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "railLabel": "2019",
      "estimated": true
    },
    {
      "id": "insidious-out-of-the-further",
      "title": "Insidious: Out of the Further",
      "type": "Film",
      "date": "2019 main story; 1999 prologue",
      "order": 2019.1,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2026-08-21",
      "description": "Gemma, a mother and dentist, discovers a power that lets entities cross from the Further into the physical world.",
      "note": "Post-release accounts place the main case in 2019, shortly after The Red Door, with a twenty-year jump from the 1999 opening. The earlier TV Insider seven-year-gap claim conflicts; retain the corroborated finished-film year. Direct date-caption inspection remains outstanding.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "order",
        "crosscheck",
        "insidiousoutofthefurther",
        "out-release",
        "out-chronology",
        "out-review",
        "out-conflict"
      ],
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Post-release film accounts cross-checked",
      "inspection": "Studio access and finished-film review chronology checked; the complete film has not been directly inspected.",
      "continuity": "screen",
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HC7C8V4Q",
      "productName": "Insidious: Out of the Further — corresponding digital movie",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official edition; stock and regional playback can change.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "railLabel": "2019",
      "estimated": false,
      "upcoming": false
    },
    {
      "id": "the-last-key-elise-s-childhood",
      "title": "The Last Key — Elise’s childhood",
      "type": "Film",
      "date": "1953; caption cross-check pending",
      "order": 1953,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2018",
      "description": "An earlier sequence inside the feature film.",
      "note": "Embedded scene, not an additional film. Caption year reported in chronology references; direct film-frame inspection remains open.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "order",
        "crosscheck",
        "insidiousthelastkey"
      ],
      "segment": true,
      "confidence": "Relative chronology; calendar date qualified",
      "inspection": "Publication/source checked; full work not inspected",
      "continuity": "screen",
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078F151RD",
      "productName": "Corresponding complete movie",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official edition; stock and regional playback can change.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "railLabel": "1953",
      "estimated": false
    },
    {
      "id": "the-last-key-elise-leaves-home",
      "title": "The Last Key — Elise leaves home",
      "type": "Film",
      "date": "1966; caption cross-check pending",
      "order": 1966,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2018",
      "description": "An earlier sequence inside the feature film.",
      "note": "Embedded scene, not an additional film. Caption year reported in chronology references; direct film-frame inspection remains open.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "order",
        "crosscheck",
        "insidiousthelastkey"
      ],
      "segment": true,
      "confidence": "Relative chronology; calendar date qualified",
      "inspection": "Publication/source checked; full work not inspected",
      "continuity": "screen",
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078F151RD",
      "productName": "Corresponding complete movie",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official edition; stock and regional playback can change.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "railLabel": "1966",
      "estimated": false
    },
    {
      "id": "chapter-2-young-josh-investigation",
      "title": "Chapter 2 — young Josh investigation",
      "type": "Film",
      "date": "1986; caption cross-check pending",
      "order": 1986,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2013",
      "description": "An earlier sequence inside the feature film.",
      "note": "Embedded scene, not an additional film. Caption year reported in chronology references; direct film-frame inspection remains open.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "order",
        "crosscheck",
        "insidiouschapter2"
      ],
      "segment": true,
      "confidence": "Relative chronology; calendar date qualified",
      "inspection": "Publication/source checked; full work not inspected",
      "continuity": "screen",
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BQNZVZKT",
      "productName": "Corresponding complete movie",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official edition; stock and regional playback can change.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "railLabel": "1986",
      "estimated": false
    },
    {
      "id": "insidious-spectral-sightings-episode-1",
      "title": "Insidious: Spectral Sightings — episode 1",
      "type": "Web short",
      "date": "Before the Lambert case; exact date unverified",
      "order": 2010.11,
      "canon": "Disputed canon",
      "release": "2013",
      "description": "Specs and Tucker investigate in the short-form spin-off.",
      "note": "Series relationship is pre-Lambert; precise placement against The Last Key and individual episode interiors needs inspection. DVD inclusion is verified; not an unrelated nearest movie.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "web",
        "dvd"
      ],
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative chronology; calendar date qualified",
      "inspection": "Publication/source checked; full work not inspected",
      "continuity": "screen",
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EZ50R04",
      "productName": "Insidious: Chapter 2 — Blu-ray with webisode extras",
      "productMatch": "Chapter 2 Blu-ray edition linked by Sony; library catalogue confirms the three webisodes as Chapter 2 extras. Regional bonus contents should be checked.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "railLabel": "Web 1",
      "estimated": false
    },
    {
      "id": "insidious-spectral-sightings-episode-2",
      "title": "Insidious: Spectral Sightings — episode 2",
      "type": "Web short",
      "date": "Before the Lambert case; exact date unverified",
      "order": 2010.12,
      "canon": "Disputed canon",
      "release": "2013",
      "description": "Specs and Tucker investigate in the short-form spin-off.",
      "note": "Series relationship is pre-Lambert; precise placement against The Last Key and individual episode interiors needs inspection. DVD inclusion is verified; not an unrelated nearest movie.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "web",
        "dvd"
      ],
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative chronology; calendar date qualified",
      "inspection": "Publication/source checked; full work not inspected",
      "continuity": "screen",
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EZ50R04",
      "productName": "Insidious: Chapter 2 — Blu-ray with webisode extras",
      "productMatch": "Chapter 2 Blu-ray edition linked by Sony; library catalogue confirms the three webisodes as Chapter 2 extras. Regional bonus contents should be checked.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "railLabel": "Web 2",
      "estimated": false
    },
    {
      "id": "insidious-spectral-sightings-episode-3",
      "title": "Insidious: Spectral Sightings — episode 3",
      "type": "Web short",
      "date": "Before the Lambert case; exact date unverified",
      "order": 2010.1299999999999,
      "canon": "Disputed canon",
      "release": "2013",
      "description": "Specs and Tucker investigate in the short-form spin-off.",
      "note": "Series relationship is pre-Lambert; precise placement against The Last Key and individual episode interiors needs inspection. DVD inclusion is verified; not an unrelated nearest movie.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "web",
        "dvd"
      ],
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative chronology; calendar date qualified",
      "inspection": "Publication/source checked; full work not inspected",
      "continuity": "screen",
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EZ50R04",
      "productName": "Insidious: Chapter 2 — Blu-ray with webisode extras",
      "productMatch": "Chapter 2 Blu-ray edition linked by Sony; library catalogue confirms the three webisodes as Chapter 2 extras. Regional bonus contents should be checked.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "railLabel": "Web 3",
      "estimated": false
    },
    {
      "id": "insidious-into-the-further-4d-experience",
      "title": "Insidious: Into the Further 4D Experience",
      "type": "VR experience",
      "date": "Promotional encounter; exact story date unverified",
      "order": null,
      "canon": "Promotional only",
      "release": "2015",
      "description": "An immersive encounter hosted around Elise and the Further.",
      "note": "Original promotional experience; the viewing link is an official trailer, not the full VR installation.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "vr"
      ],
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Placement unresolved",
      "inspection": "Publication/source checked; full work not inspected",
      "continuity": "screen",
      "productUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHNd1NTgxCc",
      "productName": "Watch official preview",
      "productMatch": "No exact Amazon listing verified; this link supplies access or official information about the work.",
      "actionLabel": "Watch official preview",
      "estimated": false
    },
    {
      "id": "insidious-the-further-live",
      "title": "Insidious: The Further LIVE",
      "type": "Web experience",
      "date": "Promotional scenario; exact story date unverified",
      "order": null,
      "canon": "Promotional only",
      "release": "2023",
      "description": "Interactive promotional journey connected to The Red Door campaign.",
      "note": "The campaign year is not an exact fictional date.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "live"
      ],
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Placement unresolved",
      "inspection": "Publication/source checked; full work not inspected",
      "continuity": "screen",
      "productUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHrtasmkrV8",
      "productName": "Watch on YouTube",
      "productMatch": "Official Sony livestream / experience recording.",
      "actionLabel": "Watch on YouTube",
      "estimated": false
    },
    {
      "id": "insidious-the-further-you-fear",
      "title": "Insidious: The Further You Fear",
      "type": "Live show",
      "date": "Tour scenario; exact fictional date unverified",
      "order": null,
      "canon": "Promotional only",
      "release": "2025",
      "description": "Spectral Sightings becomes a live, audience-facing paranormal show.",
      "note": "Licensed stage narrative, not a new dated Lambert case. Tour cancellations are not proof that no performances occurred.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "stage"
      ],
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Placement unresolved",
      "inspection": "Publication/source checked; full work not inspected",
      "continuity": "screen",
      "productUrl": "https://media.sheas.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/28151121/10-22-24-INSIDIOUS.pdf",
      "productName": "Read official show information",
      "productMatch": "No exact Amazon listing verified; this link supplies access or official information about the work.",
      "actionLabel": "Read official show information",
      "estimated": false
    },
    {
      "id": "out-of-the-further-gemma-childhood",
      "title": "Out of the Further — Gemma’s childhood prologue",
      "type": "Film",
      "date": "1999",
      "order": 1999,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2026-08-21",
      "description": "The opening revisits Gemma’s childhood and her mother before the later haunting.",
      "note": "Reported 1999 opening, followed by a twenty-year jump to the main case. Same film, separately positioned because of the major time jump; direct caption inspection remains open.",
      "sourceIds": [
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        "crosscheck",
        "insidiousoutofthefurther",
        "out-release",
        "out-chronology",
        "out-review",
        "out-conflict"
      ],
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Post-release film accounts cross-checked",
      "inspection": "Studio access and finished-film review chronology checked; the complete film has not been directly inspected.",
      "continuity": "screen",
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HC7C8V4Q",
      "productName": "Insidious: Out of the Further — corresponding digital movie",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official edition; stock and regional playback can change.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "railLabel": "1999",
      "estimated": false,
      "upcoming": false,
      "shared": true
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "order",
      "title": "AMC: Insidious chronology",
      "url": "https://www.amctheatres.com/amc-scene/insidious-timeline-explained-entire-series",
      "kind": "Secondary",
      "note": "Prequel relationships; broad years require qualification."
    },
    {
      "id": "crosscheck",
      "title": "Insidious chronology cross-check",
      "url": "https://comicbook.com/horror/news/insidious-movies-timeline-chronology-explained/",
      "kind": "Secondary",
      "note": "Verified work or publication metadata; not a substitute for an interior date audit."
    },
    {
      "id": "web",
      "title": "Spectral Sightings: three-part web series",
      "url": "https://thetvdb.com/series/insidious-spectral-sightings/allseasons/official",
      "kind": "Secondary index",
      "note": "2013 publication, three episodes; placeholder catalogue days are not asserted as actual release days."
    },
    {
      "id": "dvd",
      "title": "Library record: Chapter 2 webisode extras",
      "url": "https://catalog.spokanelibrary.org/catalog/Record/9e8946ce-98e0-5c66-ab04-9c2e7cd34d96",
      "kind": "Library catalogue",
      "note": "DVD contains the three-part Spectral Sightings webisode."
    },
    {
      "id": "vr",
      "title": "Focus Features: Into the Further preview",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHNd1NTgxCc",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Verified work or publication metadata; not a substitute for an interior date audit."
    },
    {
      "id": "live",
      "title": "Sony Pictures: The Further LIVE",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHrtasmkrV8",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Verified work or publication metadata; not a substitute for an interior date audit."
    },
    {
      "id": "stage",
      "title": "Licensed Further You Fear stage-show announcement",
      "url": "https://media.sheas.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/28151121/10-22-24-INSIDIOUS.pdf",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Verified work or publication metadata; not a substitute for an interior date audit."
    },
    {
      "id": "insidiouschapter3",
      "title": "Sony Pictures: Insidious: Chapter 3",
      "url": "https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/insidiouschapter3",
      "kind": "Primary studio / product",
      "note": "Official synopsis and corresponding Amazon link. Release year does not supply story year."
    },
    {
      "id": "insidiousthelastkey",
      "title": "Sony Pictures: Insidious: The Last Key",
      "url": "https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/insidiousthelastkey",
      "kind": "Primary studio / product",
      "note": "Official synopsis and corresponding Amazon link. Release year does not supply story year."
    },
    {
      "id": "insidious",
      "title": "Sony Pictures: Insidious",
      "url": "https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/insidious",
      "kind": "Primary studio / product",
      "note": "Official synopsis and corresponding Amazon link. Release year does not supply story year."
    },
    {
      "id": "insidiouschapter2",
      "title": "Sony Pictures: Insidious: Chapter 2",
      "url": "https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/insidiouschapter2",
      "kind": "Primary studio / product",
      "note": "Official synopsis and corresponding Amazon link. Release year does not supply story year."
    },
    {
      "id": "insidiousthereddoor",
      "title": "Sony Pictures: Insidious: The Red Door",
      "url": "https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/insidiousthereddoor",
      "kind": "Primary studio / product",
      "note": "Official synopsis and corresponding Amazon link. Release year does not supply story year."
    },
    {
      "id": "insidiousoutofthefurther",
      "title": "Sony Pictures: Insidious: Out of the Further",
      "url": "https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/insidiousoutofthefurther",
      "kind": "Primary studio / product",
      "note": "Official synopsis and corresponding Amazon link. Release year does not supply story year."
    },
    {
      "id": "out-release",
      "title": "Sony Pictures: Out of the Further — watch at home now",
      "url": "https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/insidiousoutofthefurther",
      "kind": "Primary studio",
      "note": "Released film with corresponding official digital viewing options; release year is not used as the story year."
    },
    {
      "id": "out-chronology",
      "title": "Out of the Further: post-release chronology and review references",
      "url": "https://redreactions.com/articles/insidious-timeline-explained-out-of-the-further/",
      "kind": "Secondary chronology",
      "note": "Reports a 1999 prologue, twenty-year jump and 2019 main story shortly after The Red Door; links the finished-film A.V. Club and UPI reviews."
    },
    {
      "id": "out-review",
      "title": "Los Angeles Times: Out of the Further finished-film review",
      "url": "https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2026-08-21/insidious-out-of-further-review-amelia-eve-brandon-perea-lin-shaye-jacob-chase",
      "kind": "Secondary film review",
      "note": "Reports 2019 and a direct sequel relationship."
    },
    {
      "id": "out-conflict",
      "title": "TV Insider: Insidious chronology",
      "url": "https://www.tvinsider.com/gallery/insidious-movies-chronological-order/",
      "kind": "Secondary conflicting reference",
      "note": "Pre-release guide reports seven years after The Red Door; conflicts with post-release 2019 accounts. Retained as a contradiction, not silently adopted."
    }
  ],
  "scope": [
    {
      "title": "Universal haunted attractions and additional VR campaigns",
      "type": "Licensed experience leads",
      "status": "Narrative / individual inventory audit pending",
      "note": "Scene recreations and interactive marketing need verification for distinct new stories before inclusion as dated events.",
      "sources": [
        "vr",
        "stage"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Novels, comics, manga, games and original audio dramas",
      "type": "Coverage check",
      "status": "No additional published narrative verified",
      "note": "Searches did not establish a licensed narrative publication in these categories. This is not proof of nonexistence; fan projects and soundtrack albums are not silently included.",
      "sources": [
        "insidious",
        "insidiousoutofthefurther"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "audit": {
    "checked": "2026-10-07",
    "status": "Research edition — open verification gaps",
    "checks": [
      "Six films checked against current Sony listings, including the 2026 release.",
      "Three Spectral Sightings episodes separated from the films and matched to a containing DVD/Blu-ray edition.",
      "VR promotional experience, official interactive livestream and licensed live show included.",
      "Red Door’s nine-year story interval separated from its 2023 release; sixth film now placed using cross-checked post-release story dates.",
      "Released Out of the Further placed in 2019, with its reported 1999 childhood prologue separately visible; conflicting pre-release seven-year claim disclosed."
    ],
    "gaps": [
      "Full film caption and prop-date inspection remains open for the approximate 2007 / 2010 / 2019 anchors.",
      "Spectral Sightings individual video/date clues and exact placement relative to Last Key need inspection.",
      "No full script audit of live-show variations or haunted-attraction narratives has been completed."
    ]
  }
}