Summer movies are just around the corner, and we know what that means. Premieres of productions that hope to become some of the biggest hits of the year.
Between high-profile productions and major Hollywood studios, there is an independent film project, produced by A24which is projected to become a commercial success.
We talk about Backrooms.
The film adaptation of viral internet creepypasta horror phenomenon created by Kane Parsonswill hit the big screen at the end of May, promising to be a chilling experience that will take you to disconnect from reality and enter another place.
The potential of Backrooms to be crowned a hit, is something that anyone familiar with the original material can measure. Backrooms It has a large audience around the world, and the projection of its premiere at the box office begins to reflect and confirm it.
According to Deadline reports, Backrooms is projected to have a premiere around $20 million dollars at the national box office (United States), an impressive figure, although on a personal level, I think that the collection of its premiere will be even higher.
The film has a production budget less than $10 million dollars.
The modest budget, and the estimated box office projections, would be positioning it in a low-cost, high-profit production modelsimilar to Blumhouse's specialty.
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..
The main cast is headed by Renate Reinsve (Sentimental Value), Chiwetel Ejiofor (The Life of Chuck), Find Bennett (A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms), Lukita Maxwell (Shrinking), Mark Duplass (The Morning Show) y Avan Jogi (Zombieland: Double Tap).
Parsons directs the script written by Will Soodik (Ash vs Evil Dead, Westworld, Homeland).
By the way, it is Parsons' debut as a feature film director, and at only 20 years old, he becomes the youngest director of an A24 project.
The adaptation 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 WanMichael Clear, and Shawn Levy are producers along with Robert Patino, Dan Cohen, Dan Levine, and Chris Ferguson. Executive producers are Judson Scott, Alayna Glasthal, and Chris White.
The feature film was produced in Canada in the summer of 2025.
ABOUT THE PHENOMENON BACKROOMS
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.
Enter the space of liminal terror May 29, 2026.
Source: https://cine3.com/proyeccion-taquilla-backrooms-a24-estreno-20mdd/
