'Backrooms' records the best Monday ever for an R-rated horror movie in June

Viewers can't resist Backroomsand continue entering another chilling dimension beyond reality, with the proposal of Kane Parsons y A24.

The horror project grossed another $7.669 million at the domestic box officeon Monday of this week, recording the best Monday ever for a Rated R horror movie in the month of Junebreaking a ten-year record.

Backrooms exceeded $4.3 million dollars raised by The Conjuring 2 from New Line and WB, on Monday, June 13, 2016, and came close to registering the best Monday in history for a horror film of any classification, which for now belongs to World War Z from Paramount Pictures with $7.67 billion. The zombie film directed by Mark Forster has held the record since June 2013, and is classified as an action-horror genre (via Deadline).

Backrooms surpassed all projections for its release, with a domestic box office launch of $81 million, a record number as the best premiere in the history of A24. At the international box office it grossed $37 million dollars, for a global premiere of $118 million dollars.

The project had a production cost of $10 million dollars. Undoubtedly, it will be crowned as one of the most profitable films at the box office.

The film adapts to the cinema the viral Internet creepypasta phenomenon of Parsons himself, who, by the way, debuts as a feature film director, and at barely 20 years old, becomes the youngest director of an A24 project. Parsons is also one of the members of a new generation of filmmakers emerging from YouTube.

With script Will Soodik (Ash vs Evil Dead, Westworld, Homeland), Backrooms It is set in the 90s, and follow Clark (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a divorced man, a failed architect, frustrated and resentful of life, who works as the owner of a cheap furniture store. Clark goes to therapy with Dr. Mary Kline (Renate Reinsve), to whom he talks about how his wife kicked him out of the house, and now he lives in the furniture store.

One night, the place experiences a lighting problem that takes Clark to the floor below where he will try to fix the problem, however, on one of the walls he notices a light that makes him approach and when he touches the wall, He finds a strange hidden door that he can pass through, which leads him to another dimension with a chilling atmosphere beyond reality.

Later, Dr. Mary will also enter this dimension in search of Clark, and two other young furniture workers (played by Lukita Maxwell y Find Bennett).

Here you can read our three-star review of Backrooms.