Insidious: Out of the Further review: Predictable horror sequel will put you to sleep

Running time: 106 minutes.<br>PG-13 (strong violent content, some strong language, bloody images, terror).

In theaters.In the final clash of “Insidious: Out of the Further,” the sixth film in the horror franchise that makes the dead into goofy Victorian dolls, the characters must find a red door.I, too, thought a lot about doors during the movie — particularly my desire to walk out of the nearest one.Not because I was too frightened to remain in my seat.No, no, no.

Rather the dum-dum second half of director Jacob Chase’s paranormal schlep, when a mother fights to stop the latest Freddy Krueger ripoff, is positively somnambulic. It sure was for the man behind me, whose loud snores suggested he was deep in an REM cycle.Much like the forgettable movie’s imperiled heroes are at their most vulnerable.“Six” trudges back into the world of the Further — an astral limbo between earth and the afterlife that a select few can visit while asleep.

You know you’re in the Further because somebody flipped the Party City fog machine on.One of those special people — called “travelers” in this overly term-y series — is Gemma, who suffered a tragic loss as a little girl in 1999 when her disturbed mom bashed her own head in against the bathroom tile.It was the year of Ricky Martin’s “Livin’ La Vida Loca” and poor Gemma was livin’ la vida trauma.Twenty years later, adult Gemma (Amelia Eve) has a nine-year-old daughter named Maya (Island Austin) and is perplexingly still in the same messed-up house.

The screenplay unconvincingly tries to bat this choice away.She inherited it and it’s a perfectly fine home despite her mother offing herself in the tub.

Why wouldn’t she stay put in his hellhole? Gemma works as a dentist, and can surely afford an abode that doesn’t look like the Brady Bunch became hoarders.But brightly lit downtown condos don’t tingle the spine.After three old freaks who could be Riff Raff, Magenta and Columbia from “...