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You can handle the truth! Why cinema suddenly loves conspiracy theories

From Disclosure Day to Backrooms, a new wave of films promote stories of paranoia, alienation and mistrust. What are they trying to tell us?

The Guardian - UK

From YouTube to box office history: The Gen Z director rewriting the rules of cinema

On this week's film show, critic Emma Jones joins Eve Jackson to review the latest cinema releases. They discuss "Backrooms", the record-breaking horror hit from 20-year-old director Kane Parsons, now the youngest filmmaker ever to top the US box office. Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve, the film is shaking…

France 24

‘Backrooms’: Internet ‘creepypasta’ is year’s most unsettling horror film

The innovative studio A24 has not disappointed again. Kane Parsons’ Backrooms (2026) might be one of the most unique horror films we have seen lately. Based on a 2019 creepypasta (horror Internet myth), it frightens viewers not with jump scares but with a continuous eerie liminal atmosphere, where something deeply…

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Director of one of 2026's biggest surprise horror hits slams GenAI: "If I could snap my fingers and make generative AI disappear forever, I probably would"

Kane Parsons is not a fan of generative AI

Total Film

Backrooms: why being trapped in the film’s endless corridors feels a lot like modern life

In Backrooms, the latest horror film from production company A24, Chiwetel Ejiofor plays Clark – a failed architect who accidentally slips out of reality. He ends up trapped in an endless labyrinth of yellow-tinted rooms, humming fluorescent lights and eerie, disembodied sounds – the “Backrooms”.

The Conversation

'Backrooms', based on YouTube horror series, breaks box office records

LOS ANGELES (UNITED STATES) - A24's "Backrooms," the big screen adaptation of a viral YouTube horror series, smashed several box office records with an $81.5 million North American debut, US media reported Sunday.

Bangkok Post

Backrooms' Director Wasn't Even Alive In The '90s, But He Nailed The Look Of The Decade

As a Gen Xer, I’m impressed!

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Why Does Clark Find Comfort In The Backrooms? Chiwetel Ejiofor Weighs In

So much to break down about this movie!

Cinemablend

Director Kane Parsons 'certainly' planning more Backrooms movies

The 20-year-old helms the movie, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, which tells the story of the furniture owner’s mental breakdown - and sees him transported to another dimension of a never-ending series of rooms, full of memories of his past.

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Backrooms and Exit 8 make the perfect double feature for videogame-adjacent horror movies

Quiet. Tense. Creepy. And not overstuffed with lore or exposition.

PC Gamer

‘Backrooms’ review: This YouTube horror movie is ‘Blair Witch’ meets ’Cabin in the Woods’ in the best possible way

"Backrooms" is a gripping psychological YouTube horror movie that will have you audibly gasp in the theater, guaranteed.

Tom’s Guide

What You Need To Know About 'Backrooms,' According To Its Director

The new A24 horror movie 'Backrooms' comes with extensive lore attached. How much do you need to know going in?

Inverse

Meet Kane Parsons, the 20-year-old behind the year’s scariest movie. Yes, we said 20

INTERVIEW: The sci-fi enthusiast was still in high school making VFX videos at his family kitchen table when A24 tapped him for their next internet-fuelled horror film, making him their youngest ever director. Annabel Nugent speaks to Kane Parsons, still only 20, about his transition to the big screen

The Independent UK

Backrooms review: Kane Parsons' puzzling panic rooms are this year’s freakiest show

4/5 Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve enter a maze of discombobulating horror in 20-year-old Kane Parsons’ adaptation of his YouTube series

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Total Film

Backrooms star debunks bizarre rumor the new horror movie from 20-year-old director was "ghost directed" by its more well-known producers

Mark Duplass has defended Backrooms director Kane Parsons

The Guardian - UK

Backrooms review – Kane Parsons’ icily disturbing horror rewrites the genre rulebook

Debut from 20-year-old director examines memory, reality and fear after Chiwetel Ejiofor accesses an infinite series of hidden rooms that all feel creepily askew

The Independent UK

Backrooms review – This 4chan-inspired internet horror will define a new generation of filmmakers

4/5 Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve star in 20-year-old filmmaker Kane Parsons’s eerie, fascinating exploration of liminal spaces

The Conversation

The Backrooms: how a teenager’s creepy YouTube series became the year’s most anticipated horror

Before Kane Parsons had a Hollywood deal, he had a cheap laptop in his bedroom, a consumer-grade camera, and a grainy image from a 4chan forum.

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Marvel star says he "didn't have any thoughts" about Backrooms' "viral nature", was just drawn to its "deep psychological resonance"

Exclusive: Chiwetel Ejiofor explains why he didn't feel any pressure to live up to Backrooms fans' expectations with the movie

PC Gamer

Backrooms actor Chiwetel Ejiofor was surprised to find out the 30,000 square foot set is the first of its kind: 'I thought that somewhere it had been built before'

Those shorts do look pretty convincing to be fair.

Total Film

Kane Parsons promises his Backrooms movie will be "in strict continuity" with his viral YouTube series and won't offer concrete answers

Backrooms director Kane Parsons promises to stay loyal to his online fanbase

The Guardian - UK

Are you sitting uncomfortably? How Backrooms upended the horror movie

It was just a creepy picture on the internet. Now it’s the year’s freakiest film. Its 20-year-old auteur Kane Parsons and stars Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve take us through the terrifying labyrinth

TechRadar

I found some eerie new Backrooms marketing ahead of the horror movie's release and it's left me seriously freaked out

Backrooms fans have spotted some creepy new marketing for the anticipated new A24 horror movie.

Total Film

New A24 horror Backrooms unveils creepy commercial, and you can ring the number for levelled-up scares

"The only thing you'll be wanting is more space to keep it all!"

The Independent UK

How Backrooms went from a viral 4chan post to an A24 movie starring an Oscar-nominated actor

The Backrooms are one of the best-known examples of the liminal space aesthetic — places that feel in-between, like empty offices, hallways, or waiting rooms, which are familiar but unsettling when deserted

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