The official teaser for Kane Parsons’ horror Backrooms has been released, and it’s just as ominous as the online original. A24 released a short look at Parsons’ directorial feature, which adapts a series from his YouTube page.
Backrooms stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett, and Lukita Maxwell, and focuses on “two people find a mysterious door in the basement of a furniture showroom.” The teaser trailer displays shots of the same yellow room, which gradually gets stranger and barer, with the final shot of the short clip being what the viewer can only imagine to be the Backrooms. Accompanying the uncanny shots is a voiceover of Ejiofor’s character saying, “I found something. I found a place. It’s massive in there and just goes on and on and on. All these rooms, this place builds them. Actually, more like it remembers them, and the more times it remembers something, the less it does.” Shawn Levy, James Wan, Dan Levine, Kori Adelson, Dan Cohen, and Chris Ferguson are credited as producers. The film was co-financed by A24 and Chernin Entertainment, both of which serve as co-studios for the project, while Atomic Monster and 21 Laps Entertainment serve as producers.
Parsons directed his adapted feature from a script written by Will Soodik, becoming the youngest filmmaker in A24 history at 20-years old. The project is based on Parsons’ viral YouTube horror series of the same title, which has garnered almost 200 million views. Parsons, better known as Kane Pixels on the internet, has helmed various horror projects on YouTube, utilizing his talent as VFX artist to the utmost effect. Parsons isn’t the only YouTuber making waves in the horrorsphere this year. Markiplier’s Iron Lung was a surprise box office success earlier this year, with the self-distributed theatrical release grossing nearly $44 million at the worldwide box office. Hopefully, these two are paving the way to breaking the stigma around YouTube, mainly by questioning the seriousness and depth of its content creation.
Backrooms is set to release in theaters on May 26, 2026. View the official teaser below:
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