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• Does Insidious: Out of the Further have a post-credits scene? Yes, it does
• This post-credits scene isn’t a can’t-miss, but it does make good on one of the movie’s big promises.
• We advise you don’t stay to watch the final titles roll if you fear the dentist.

Does Insidious: Out of the Further have a post-credits scene? That’s no doubt a question on your mind if you’re thinking about going to see the new movie (in which case, check out our spoiler-free review). Or, if you have seen it but didn’t have time to stay, or don’t intend to see it at all, maybe you’re just curious what happens after the credits roll on our favorite demon franchise. Well, never fear, we’re here to break down all things Insidious: Out of the Further post-credits scene related.

Is There an Insidious: Out of the Further Post-Credits Scene? Sony Pictures

Yes, Insidious: Out of the Further does have a post-credits scene. It’s not a can’t-miss addition to the movie, but it certainly does deliver on one of Insidious: Out of the Further‘s biggest cinematic promises/threats.

What Happens in Insidious: Out of the Further‘s Post-Credits Scene?

In short, Insidious: Out of the Further finally coughs up that disgustingly delicious dentist horror that the movie teased throughout its run. Even the trailer for Insidious: Out of the Further promised us there would be some dental horror in the film. A promise that seemed all the more salient when we learned main character, Gemma, was a dental hygienist. And though we saw some GROSS dentist-related scenes throughout the movie, most of them cut off before they really got started. And that’s what Insidious: Out of the Further‘s post-credits scene is here to rectify.

In Insidious: Out of the Further‘s post-credits scene, the demon Cyrus gets his just desserts. After all, he let down a whole cult of demons when he couldn’t deliver on his promise to help them escape the Further into the real world. And one of those demons just happens to be a demon dentist. Cyrus wouldn’t let the demon dentist torment Gemma earlier in the movie, but he gets no such clemency now.

The demon dentist fires up his demon drill and jabs it RIGHT into Cyrus’ teeth in the Insidious: Out of the Further post-credits scene. There’s drilling, there’s screaming, there’s gross goodness. And that’s about the size of that. If you were waiting the whole movie for this dental debauchery… Good for you!

Insidious: Out of the Further is out now in theaters.

Rotem Rusak is the Editor-in-Chief at Nerdist. She is a great lover of the anti-hero and is always ready for a new ship to set sail. In her work, she likes to combine fandom passion with journalistic sensibilities. Follow her on Instagram.

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• At D23 Disney revealed a complete model replica of its upcoming Piston Peak expansion at Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World.
• The land will feature two rides, one of which is an off-road racer that will bring a much-needed kinectic energy to what was once the quietest part of the park.
• Nerdist’s Take: Piston Peak is going to completely transform Magic Kingdom’s Frontierland while also fixing a long standing problem in the back of the park.

Anytime Disney closes or transforms a land in one of its theme parks something is lost. Each area, no matter how popular it may or may not be, mattered. It mattered to the Imagineers who built it, the cast members who worked there, and to the countless guests who made memories in them. And no matter how much you might not have cared for a particular spot or attraction, it was someone’s favorite. That was certainly true of the recently shuttered Rivers of America and Tom Sawyer Island in Magic Kingdom’s Frontierland. Not everyone is thrilled they’re gone. Some will always miss them and not without reason.

The question since the Liberty Belle Riverboat made its last voyage is the same one that matters every time Disney swaps something old for something new: is the replacement worth what was lost? And after this year’s D23 provided our best look yet at the Cars-themed Piston Peak the answer is a very obvious and definitive “yes.”

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The Imagineering Booth at 2026’s D23 in Anaheim featured a massive replica model of the upcoming Piston Peak expansion currently under construction at Walt Disney World. The new land is not going to be a recreation of Disney California Adventure’s fantastic Cars Land. At the moment, Magic Kingdom’s original take is not much of anything. It’s still mostly just a big roundish hole with a concrete wall holding dirt and construction vehicles nestled between Haunted Mansion, Big Thunder Mountain, and Tiana’s Bayou Adventure. The elevated queue from the recently reopened Big Thunder offers a clear view into the spot. And in person it looks small.

That’s certainly how I felt when I saw it in May. Just about everyone I’ve spoken with who has been on Big Thunder feels the same way. But the model at D23 made clear that in this case looks are deceiving.

Piston Peak is going to be much grander in scope than the space suggests. Seeing how the land will actually fit inside that portion of Magic Kingdom was akin to going inside a new home that hasn’t been furnished, looking at an empty room and thinking, “This isn’t that big.” Only after furniture is added do you realize it’s massive. I shared that analogy with an Imagineer at D23 and he told me a colleague had recently shared the exact same thought.

My issue with trying to picture how Piston Peak will fit into Frontierland was not just a problem of imagination. (Or, you know, a lack of an engineering degree.) Previously released concept art provided very little sense of space. (Early looks at the Monstroplis expansion coming to Hollywood Studios did not have that problem.) Piston Peak’s initial art felt more like a promo for another film in the franchise. A follow-up promotional poster somehow made things worse.

The model solved those issues in ways that exceeded what I’d hoped to see from Piston Peak. Not only is the land going to be wide, it’s also going to be tall thanks to its mountain. That will align it with Frontierland’s two current signature attractions. Imagineers also designed it to fit in with the many different surrounding areas it touches, so that it each portion also feels like an extension of them. That will inherently make it feel bigger. Most importantly, though, is that Piston Peak is going to feel big because of what it adds to Magic Kingdom. It will bring an all-new energy to what had been, at best, the least quietest part of Magic Kingdom. At worst, Rivers of America was the most boring.

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I’m not here to rip the former Rivers of America, really. I understand why some fans are mad it’s gone and what it means for the park. I can’t say I had much use for Tom Sawyer Island, but I did enjoy watching the Liberty Bell sail around Frontierland. And I certainly loved the serene beauty the area offered at night. After a long day in a hot theme park, it was always nice to see the lights reflecting off the river. It was a small and peaceful respite that felt like a beautiful reward for overcoming the day’s heat, humidity, and mass of humans. It was nice in the truest sense, in a way theme parks usually aren’t.

The problem is, you can’t sacrifice prime real estate in the world’s most popular theme park for a little beauty only found during the final few hours of the day. And clearly guests weren’t utilizing the space enough to keep it. Earlier this year I attended a panel with Disney executives who talked about how much data they have on park usage. That influences their decisions on when to make a wholesale change and when to simply renovate.

You didn’t need internal data to see Magic Kingdom’s Rivers of America wasn’t that popular. It was also obvious that it didn’t fit in as naturally as Disneyland’s version. It makes way more sense in Anaheim’s park. I always found Walt Disney World’s own to be the park’s most frustrating aspect specifically because of where it was placed. It made Big Thunder Mountain a dead end. Once you reached that ride, you had to turn around.

That might not sound like a big deal, but just think about anytime you’ve reached a dead end anywhere, let alone a theme park. You didn’t like it, right? Of course not. No one wants to hit a wall and retreat. Theme parks especially should flow and promote forward movement. Now Piston Peak, even before Villains Land launches behind it, will open up the park. You’ll be able to walk around the Magic Kingdom rather than walk to its end.

That bonus is nothing compared to what Piston Peak will actually contain. In addition to the dining options and merch stores you’d expect to find in any land, the area will also feature running water so Rivers of America’s best element remains. And it will also feature two rides, one that will bring a kinetic energy Frontierland desperately needs.

It’s hard to overstate how excited I am for the newly announced Cars Ridge Run Rally. Obviously a Cars-themed land was always going to include a racing ride. It was obviously also going to be good considering what Disney pulled off with DCA’s fantastic Radiator Springs Racers. And yet, somehow the formal announcement of what we’re actually getting exceeded anything I could have imagined.

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It’s not a slightly different version Disneyland’s ride. (Walt Disney World already has an attraction that uses the same type of cars and track with EPCOT’s Test Track.) Cars Ridge Run Rally is wildly different thanks to a first-of-its-kind ride technology. It will take guests on an off-road romp—called by Lightning McQueen and Mater—through snow-covered mountains, down a muddy national park, and into a geyser field of sprouting water. Only, the attraction’s cars won’t just simulate an off-road racer. They’re literally off-road racers, which means you they will navigate the actual terrain of the ride. You’ll feel bumps because they are really there and driving over them, not because Imagineers simulated the sensaton. And, among the most exciting developments announced at D23, those off-road cars will still operate in the rain. Lightning is the only weather that will close the attraction.

Anyone who has ever found themselves in a sudden Orlando rainstorm is smiling right now. I’m more excited to ride Cars Ridge Run Rally in the pouring rain than I am a perfect weather day. And at night, rain or shine, this ride is going to absolutely pop.

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The model also showed the single-track ride will traverse all of Piston Peak. Whether you’re near the Haunted Mansion, perusing the shops in Frontierland, or by Tiana’s and Big Thunder, you’re going to see and hear guests flying by. At the end, those racers and shooting geysers of water are going to feel alive in a way Rivers of America never could. It’s the complete opposite of what that portion of the park used to offer. Instead of underused and under-appreciated serenity, it will add the best of what any theme park does: controlled chaos full of energy and fun. Piston Peak’s main attraction alone is going to make the land one of the most popular parts of the park. That will not only be great unto itself, it will also lighten wait times everywhere at Magic Kingdom.

Tom Sawyer Island and the Liberty Belle Riverboat were…..they were not doing that.

The other ride will also contribute to WDW’s renewed focus on guests with young kids. The family-friendly Miss Fritter’s Daredevil Spin-Along (seen in the carousel above) will feature the Cars 3 character as a giant school-bus-sized animatronic. She’s hosting what Disney calls her “wildest demolition derby yet.”

I asked a lead Imagineer on the project if the attraction was similar to either DCA’s Luigi’s Rollickin’ Roadsters or Mater’s Junkyard Jamboree. He told me no. Instead it’s more akin to Cars Quatre Roues Rallye: Vroooom! found at Disneyland Paris.

I’m not just paying lip service when I say I’m sorry for those who loved Magic Kingdom’s Rivers of America, its riverboat, or Tom Sawyer Island. All of them were someone’s favorite. All of them were home to some very special memories. I’ll forever mourn the loss of The Great Movie Ride, my family’s favorite we’d ride again and again, even though I like Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway. But for everything that was lost when Disney closed those attractions, it’s clear Piston Peak will be worth it.

Mikey Walsh is a staff writer at Nerdist. He will never give up hope The Great Movie Ride will return. You can follow Mikey on Bluesky at @‌burgermike. And also anywhere someone is ranking the Targaryen kings.

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• A squid eaten by a whale attacks a guy eaten by the same whale inside the whale’s big belly in the new trailer for Whalefall, a movie about a guy eaten by a whale.
• Whalefall stars Austin Abrams and Josh Brolin.
• Nerdist’s Take: Despite the inherently funny premise, this trailer does show why the premise behind Whalefall is so scary.

I had some fun with the first teaser for Whalefall, a movie about a guy who gets eaten by a whale, something I find inherently funny. But afterwards I was told Daniel Kraus’ best-selling novel it’s based on is fantastic. Of that I genuinely have no doubt. All jokes aside, it’s a terrifying premise. The ocean is terrifying enough without a gigantic monster eating you. But, yeah. Yeah, I’m sorry. I’m not going to keep having fun with Whalefall. How can I not when the trailer is this funny? I can’t help but laugh watching a guy stuck inside a literal whale. Especially when a squid who is also inside the whale also attacks him.

Even as a serious nature horror film (and not a comedy) this is really not a bad trailer! It’s actually pretty good. It’s an intense, scary survival story that is really about parents and tough. It just so happens to involve a guy who becomes a real life Pinocchio. A Pinocchio who then fends off a squid before climbing onto the whale’s tongue to scream out “help me.” I mean, who among us….

I’m not missing anything, either. That really is the movie. That’s what the official synopsis says. From 20th Century Studios:

Following the death of his father (Josh Brolin), Jay Gardiner (Austin Abrams) goes diving off the Central Coast of California in search of his remains, but is swallowed by a massive sperm whale. While trapped inside its belly with only one hour of oxygen left, Jay comes to realize that the hard-earned lessons his father imparted may be the key to his escape.

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Whalefall comes from writer-director Brian Duffield (who co-wrote it with Kraus). It also stars Elisabeth Shue, John Ortiz, Jane Levy, and Emily Rudd.

Will I find Whalefall as funny as its trailers? I’ll find out when it gobbles up theaters on October 16.

Mikey Walsh is a staff writer at Nerdist. You can follow Mikey on Bluesky at @‌burgermike. And also anywhere someone is ranking the Targaryen kings.

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• UK comedy game show Taskmaster released a trailer for series 22.
• This season will feature comedians Chloe Petts, Isy Suttie, Matt Lucas, Nina Conte, and Richard Ayoade.
• Season 22 of Taskmaster will premiere on September 3 on Channel 4 in the UK and everywhere else in the world on YouTube.
• NERDIST TAKE: All the information’s on the task.

In a media (and reality) landscape that just keeps on being terrible and adds to our deteriorating mental state, it’s the rare, almost entirely positive thing that can help raise our dopamine levels. Routinely, for years now, the most happy I am while watching television comes from sitting down to an episode of Taskmaster. Just 10 weeks of sublime silliness as comedians and personalities—most of whom from the UK comedy scene—compete for supremacy in a ridiculous contest. Now, with its 22nd season just on the horizon, we have a trailer of what is to come.

Like the past few seasons, Taskmaster series 22 brings together a mix of people familiar to me and not. On the more familiar end we have Richard Ayoade and Matt Lucas. Ayoade is an actor and filmmaker who most recently played Two-Boots on Maul – Shadow Lord. Lucas was on Doctor Who and (no one’s favorite) cohost of The Great British Bake-Off. The other three members of the cast all occupy different parts of the stand-up world. Chloe Petts does comedy, Nina Conti is a ventriloquist, and Isy Suttie is a musical comedian.

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One of the best things about the show, in addition to Greg Davies and Alex Horne being the best, is that we get to spend 10 weeks with people we may not already know very well. And then it leads, inevitably, to looking up their work elsewhere and we get to enjoy new things in our lives. Humor and joy begetting humor and joy. Fantastico.

Season 22 of Taskmaster will premiere on September 3 on Channel 4 in the UK and everywhere else in the world on YouTube. If you haven’t already seen this show, you have hundreds of episodes you can watch there. All the information’s on the task.

Kyle Anderson is the Senior Editor for Nerdist. You can find his film and TV reviews here. Follow him on Letterboxd.

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• One US Army unit is offering a four day pass to play Grand Theft Auto VI in exchange for more years of active duty service.
• It is only being offered to soldiers at Fort Stewart in Georgia in the Army’s 9th Brigade Engineering Battalion.
• Nerdist’s Take: This feels like very bleak news, and also is kind of wild because, well, four days is not equivalent to years of service.

Sometimes, there is news so puzzling that it literally leaves us scratching our heads in confusion. And in today’s world, that kind of stuff seems to happen far more than we want it to. In a weird crossover of two seemingly disconnected things, one US Army unit is offering a four day pass to play Grand Theft Auto VI in exchange for more years of active duty service. The game is set for release on November 19. (Thanks to CBS News for this wild bit of truth.) 

Yes, you read that right. Now, incentives are not unheard of to keep people enlisted or to recruit them. There are things like tuition help, special training programs, and even getting to choose where you are stationed that entice people to start or continue military service. But, to us, it is a wild choice to accept a four day leave to play a video game (even one as awesome as GTA VI will surely be) to reenlist for a minimum of two years (with a max of six). A few years of service for help getting a free four year degree? Sure, we get it. But four days is not two years. 

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Apparently, we don’t know what we are talking about at all. Twenty soldiers at Fort Stewart in Georgia in the Army’s 9th Brigade Engineering Battalion, part of the 3rd Infantry Division, are already on board with this incentive to get four days off to play GTA VI in exchange for more Army service. If they like being in the Army and also like playing games, then we guess it is the right choice for them.

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Tai Gooden is the Features Editor for Nerdist, a fictional villain apologist, and a horror aficionado who is forever waiting for her trip in the TARDIS.

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House of the Dragon season 3 has come to an end, and with it the series has seemingly strayed farther from George R.R. Martin’s Fire & Blood than ever before. Are these changes for the better or does House of the Dragon secretly hate its source material? Join Dan Casey as we break down all of these changes and examine their impact on Westeros and the future of HOTD.

Special thanks to Nerdist’s Grand Maester Michael Walsh for his help with this video.

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