A24's Backrooms Has a Full Trailer — and Its Found Footage Clips Have Left Me Absolutely Terrified
Kane Parsons’ viral YouTube shorts helped launch the adaptation, which pairs internet horror with Oscar winner Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve.
- A24 released the full trailer for The Backrooms on Wednesday, starring Oscar winner Chiwetel Ejiofor and Cannes favorite Renate Reinsve, with the horror film premiering May 29.
- Director Kane Parsons, AKA Kane Pixels, created the viral shorts four years ago, amassing over 73 million views on YouTube before adapting his 4chan-inspired Creepypasta concept for cinema.
- Joining the cast are Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett, and Lukita Maxwell, with horror producers James Wan and Osgood Perkins attached to the project's slick aesthetic and signature sickly yellow design.
- Director Genki Kawamura's adaptation of the game Exit 8 joins this film as a new entry exploring spooky liminal spaces, reflecting growing cinematic interest in surreal, maze-like environments.
- Audiences must wait until May 29 to discover the film's secrets in theaters, as A24's adaptation promises an elevated horror experience blending found footage style with high-budget production values.
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'Backrooms' Trailer: A24 Turns Kane Parsons' YouTube Series Into Chiwetel Ejiofor-Renate Reinsve Film
A24 has dropped the first trailer for Backrooms, the upcoming film from Kane Parsons that stars Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve. It’s based on the viral, found-footage YouTube series from Parsons and written by Will Soodik. It is Parsons’ directorial debut. Per Variety, Parsons signed with A24 when he was just 19, becoming the youngest filmmaker to work with the studio. The Backrooms digital series first debuted in 2022, “and focused on the …
A24's 'Backrooms' trailer teases a nightmarish journey into an eerie liminal space
It's time to "no clip out of reality" and into...somewhere else.Following on from a very eerie teaser we now have a full trailer for A24's Backrooms, Kane Parsons' feature length adaptation of his viral YouTube series which was in turn inspired by a 4chan creepypasta.In the video above we see a man (Chiwetel Ejiofor) discovering a doorway to what appears to be another dimension in the basement of a store. Cue an exploration of a horrifying yello…
‘Backrooms’ Trailer: A24 Throws Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve Into a Terrifying Maze
Kane Parsons, who first brought the Backrooms to life through his viral YouTube series, became the youngest director to work with A24... The post ‘Backrooms’ Trailer: A24 Throws Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve Into a Terrifying Maze appeared first on Screen Realm.
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