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A24's 'Backrooms' Just Became the 13th Highest-Grossing Horror Film in North American History

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When Kane Parsons uploaded his first ‘Backrooms’ short to YouTube in 2022, he was a teenager making found footage horror on a shoestring budget, tapping into one of the internet’s most unsettling mythologies. The video went viral, spawned a cult following, and eventually caught the attention of A24, who handed the then-teenager a feature film... The post A24’s ‘Backrooms’ Just Became the 13th Highest-Grossing Horror Film in North American Histor…

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Explosing the American box office, this radically different little horror film, signed by Youtubeur Kane Parsons, imports into cinema the aesthetics of liminal spaces, viral online. Effective! ...

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Kane Parsons signed his first feature film for cinema, after an early career on YouTube that built him up as a wonder of horror on the Internet. Beyond the mere tribute, "Backrooms" extends the horrific universe that has become a mass phenomenon.

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comicbasics.com broke the news on Tuesday, June 16, 2026.
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