Original filmmakers turned producers James Wan and Leigh Whannell pass the torch to director Jacob Chase for Insidious: Out of the Further. Demons take advantage of her ability and crawl into the real world, sowing horror and destruction. Leigh Whannell, who wrote the original Insidious and directed Insidious: Chapter 3, loves the terrifying new premise Jacob Chase brought to the table. Inside the sandbox is writer-director Jacob Chase, whose love for horror has begun early in his life. “I have a love of theater, and that translated into making haunted house attractions for years,” he recalls.