Backrooms

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A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

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In Theaters May 29, 2026

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Critics Consensus

A startlingly assured feature debut from director Kane Parsons, Backrooms bends the liminal spaces that have haunted the internet for years into a horror film that's as mesmerizing as it is terrifying.

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Audience Says

Powered by a magnetic cast, Backrooms may oscillate between atmospheric allure and oneiric disorientation, but Kanepixels’ spell remains undeniable.

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Kim Newman

Sight & Sound

21h

The young director’s feature-length version of his YouTube shorts stays true to its creepypasta origins, turning a wasteland of cheap furniture into an infinite hellscape that entraps the viewer along with Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve.

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Kyle Smith

Wall Street Journal

23h

The movie’s puzzle-palace look and its boldly consistent color scheme conjure up a deep-in-the-bones unease that much more experienced directors rarely manage to create. “Backrooms” may not be a fully explained wonder but it’s well worth the wander.

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David Fear

Rolling Stone

23h

It’s the carbonara of creepypasta cinema, adding savory Kubrickian elements to its source material’s heavily salted Blair Witch Project videocam style and displaying an inventiveness that makes up for any sense of derivativeness.

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Jon Negroni

Thank God for Movies

1h

Backrooms, likes Obsession just weeks before it, proves that a kid from YouTube can walk into the multiplex and out-think nearly everyone there about the exact anxiety eating their generation alive.

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Kate Sánchez

But Why Tho?

1h

6.5/10

While the ending soured much of the time in my theater, Parsons’s vision of insanity and exploration of liminal spaces demonstrates a mind destined for the great and bizarre.

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Michael Ward

Should I See It

2h

3/5

Even as the story struggles to resonate in a meaningful way, it should become obvious to anyone watching this why Kane Parsons received this opportunity.

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Max T

28m

The atmosphere was meticulously complex and scarily creepy with so much implications that leaves you guessing. Another great horror masterpiece from A24!

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John

30m

Great adaptation of the lore. Great for anyone who has not read or watched anything on the subject!

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SamV

32m

After seeing obsession, this movie just didn’t do it for me. Definitely original and had its suspenseful moments, but as someone who knew very little about the lore going in, it was just an average horror movie to me.

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wmona86

34m

Weird confusing but mind provoking. Definitely not scary!

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Jack

42m

Lots of fun. Very confusing. Im semi-familiar with the lore, and my wife is not. Wife was more confused. Excited to see where this story goes in the future.

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J R

43m

Weird movie not much to it

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Synopsis

A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

Director: Kane Parsons
Producer: James Wan, Michael Clear, Roberto Patino, Shawn Levy, Dan Cohen, Dan Levine, Oz Perkins, Chris Ferguson, Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, Kori Adelson
Screenwriter: Will Soodik
Distributor: A24
Production Co: A24, Chernin Entertainment, 21 Laps Entertainment, Atomic Monster
Rating: R (Some Violent Content|Language|Bloody Images)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 29, 2026, Wide
Runtime: 1h 50m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)