‘Backrooms’: What Critics Are Saying About A24’s Horror Film Directed by 20-Year-Old Kane Parsons
The horror film adapts Kane Parsons’s viral YouTube series and is tracking for a $45 million to $50 million opening weekend, A24 said.
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‘Backrooms’: What Critics Are Saying About A24’s Horror Film Directed by 20-Year-Old Kane Parsons
The movie, which hits theaters Friday, is also produced by genre leaders James Wan and Osgood Perkins, and stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve and Mark Duplass.
Stories born on the internet rarely achieve convincing adaptations with effective horror on the big screen. However, the digital-native creators seem to understand how to do it, at least during the first half of the film. “Backrooms” is Kane Parsons’ first feature film under the A24 banner and is based on the web series of the same name, which stems from the enigmatic… Source
Who else is as excited as I am for the Backrooms movie tomorrow?
I'm aware that it'll be really hard to thread this needle and make this movie work, but I'm excited to see the attempt. The reviews I've read have only made me more interested. Amy Nicholson for Los Angeles Times described the film as a feature expansion of Kane Parsons' viral internet project, praising its unsettling visual concept but thought it less a conventional horror film and more a surreal, dreamlike experience of a moving Salvador Dalí…
FILM REVIEW: Backrooms (2026)
Backrooms - New Release Review Director: Kane Parsons Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett, Lukita Maxwell Written by: Will Soodik, Kane Parsons Produced by: Kori Adelson, Peter Chernin, Michael Clear, Dan Cohen, Chris Ferguson, Dan Levine, Shawn Levy, Kane Parsons, Roberto Patino, Osgood Perkins, Jenno Topping, James Wan Cinematography by: Jeremy Cox Original Score by: Kane Parsons, Edo Van Bremmen Synopsis: Af…
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