It's time to “disconnect from reality” and go into… another place.
We already have the first full trailer of Backroomsthe film adaptation of the viral internet creepypasta horror phenomenon, The Backroomscreated by Kane Parsonswhich A24 will hit theaters in May.
Parsons makes his debut as a feature film director with this project, which also, at only 20 years old, makes him the youngest director of an A24 project.
The main cast includes Oscar nominee, Renate Reinsve (Sentimental Value), the Oscar winner, Chiwetel Ejiofor (The Life of Chuck), Mark Duplass (The Morning Show), Find Bennett (A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms), Lukita Maxwell (Shrinking), y Avan Jogi (Zombieland: Double Tap).
The trailer features a man (Ejiofor) discovering a door to what appears to be another dimension in the basement of a store. Later, explore a scary yellow liminal space where the rooms are cavernous or tiny as nightmares, and possibly not unoccupied.
Parsons directs the script written by Will Soodik (Ash vs Evil Dead, Westworld, Homeland).
Backrooms adapts the found footage horror universe that Parsons popularized on YouTube, which in turn was inspired by a 4chan creepypasta. His anthology series premiered in 2022 on YouTube, accumulating 200 million views, and focuses on the story of a therapist who searches for her patient, who mysteriously disappeared in a dimension beyond reality..
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Backrooms is produced by A24, Atomic Monster of James Wan, 21 Laps Entertainment of Shawn Levyy Chernin Entertainment.
A24 and Chernin Entertainment are also co-financiers.
James Wan, Michael Clear, and Shawn Levy are producing alongside Robert Patino, Dan Cohen, Dan Levine, and Chris Ferguson. Executive producers are Judson Scott, Alayna Glasthal, and Chris White.
It seems safe to assume that the feature film would be another found footage horror film, which with the support of A24 and Wan, a final product is expected to be horrifying and, with Parsons as director, surely faithful to the original.
The feature film was produced in Canada in the summer of 2025.
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The original video of Backrooms is a short film with found footage format set in 1996, in which An unknown cameraman explores eerily lit empty rooms and hallways for 9 minutes, as the suspense builds and builds, and glimpses of something unnatural emerge..
Parsons has expanded on the mythology of his short with several videos posted on his YouTube channel, Kane Pixels. Each has racked up millions of views.
The Backrooms started as an internet creepypasta in 2019, based on the idea of ​​accidentally and gradually disappearing from reality in a network of empty rooms, but you are not alonewith a sinister, nameless threat who is also in the labyrinth with you.
A24 will release the film in theaters on May 29, 2026.
Trailer:
Source: https://cine3.com/trailer-backrooms-a24-pesadilla-espacio-liminal/
