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Backrooms

HorrorMysteryScience Fiction

Directed by Kane Parsons

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

932 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works

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Backrooms is a 2026 horror mystery science fiction film, directed by Kane Parsons, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve and Finn Bennett.

  • 814 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy
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As of September 20, 2026, Backrooms has grossed $197.5 million in the United States and Canada, and $204.9 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $402.5 million. In early May 2026, initial projections had Backrooms grossing around $20 million in its opening weekend. By the week of its release, projections had increased to $40–50 million. The film grossed $38.4 million on its first day and went on to debut to $81.5 million in the United States and Canada and a total of $118 million worldwide, becoming A24's biggest opening weekend. In its second weekend, despite a 70% decline to $26.3 million, Backrooms became A24's highest-grossing film to date, surpassing Marty Supreme…

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  • they made gooseworx @gooseworx.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 3, 2026

    I don't think I would be excited for a Backrooms movie if it had literally any other director, but I trust Kane Parsons with my life. You should watch People Still Live Here it's really good.

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  • Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 7, 2026

    the success of Backrooms means Hollywood now has no excuse but cowardice for refusing to produce a Groverhaus movie.

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  • Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 17, 2026

    The “secret” about Backrooms is that it’s just a good movie, by any yardstick. The way to replicate its success is to support & develop young writers & directors. And to give me a modest 5 million dollars to make my movie.

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  • Radiant G🌈 @radiantg.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 18, 2026

    After Barbie Execs: Toys! More toy movies! Not more women directors & leads. TOYS After Kpop Demon Hunters Execs: Singers! More movies with singers! Not women of color directing & starring. SINGERS After Backrooms Execs: Reddit stories! More Reddit stories! Not young people with new ideas. REDDIT

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  • DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.netBluesky · Jun 14, 2026

    ‘BACKROOMS’ has passed $250M+ worldwide. On a budget of $10M, it is tracking to be the first A24 film to pass $300M.

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  • Cybershell @cybershell.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 18, 2026

    If Hollywood is looking at old 4chan posts and social media shit to turn into a movie because of The Backrooms, can you please turn this glitch from Battlefield 1 into a movie, that would be cool thanks

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  • DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.netBluesky · Jun 5, 2026

    ‘BACKROOMS’ has become A24's highest grossing movie of all time worldwide in just a week. The film has just surpassed ‘EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE’.

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  • Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.coBluesky · Jun 5, 2026

    'Backrooms' director Kane Parsons says his dream is to make a film adaptation of 'Portal' He's looking into if it's possible with 'a lot of caution and a lot of curiosity'

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  • DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.netBluesky · Sep 20, 2026

    ‘BACKROOMS’ has passed $400M worldwide. The biggest A24 film of all time.

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  • DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.netBluesky · Apr 26, 2026

    Kane Parsons has revealed that Blender played an integral part in developing the ‘BACKROOMS’ movie. • Concept art was developed entirely in Blender • Blender was used to make set designs before they were brought to life physically

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  • Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.coBluesky · Jun 26, 2026

    ‘The Backrooms’ director Kane Parsons visiting Valve He recently expressed interest in making a ‘Portal’ film

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  • 🌙Evil Sonny Ross🌞 @sonnyross.bsky.socialBluesky · May 29, 2026

    Hello, I gone and done the poster for Backrooms. 200 free prints available at screenings at QFT in Belfast.

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  • The Onion @theonion.comBluesky · Jun 8, 2026

    Kane Parsons Attaches Backrooms.MOV To Film School Application https://theonion.com/kane-parsons-attaches-backrooms-mov-to-film-school-application/

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  • ChloesImagination⭐️ @chloesimagination.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 16, 2026

    The Backrooms movie reminded me of Silent hill 2,,

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  • Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.comBluesky · May 31, 2026

    Backrooms movie good!! Great job young YouTuber!!!

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  • Aaron - Thorgi's Haunted Arcade @thorgisarcade.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 4, 2026

    Here's a sentence I wasn't expecting to say a week ago- "Why can't Scorsese be more like that nice guy who directed the Backrooms movie?"

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  • Pop Crave @popcrave.comBluesky · Jun 3, 2026

    A24’s ‘Backrooms’ has officially become the studio’s highest-grossing film of all time at the domestic box office.

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  • vic-or-squeak!! ᓚᘏᕐᐷ @gizmouse.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 7, 2026

    "BACKROOMS" director Kane Parsons is no longer here. He went home and is sleeping in his bed. He's currently the comfiest movie director of all time.

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  • Keith Stack-o'-lantern @keithstack.comBluesky · Jun 5, 2026

    Between TADC and Backrooms, the YouTube-video-to-blockbuster-film pipeline has now been firmly established. Mark my words, Green Alien Singing Just The Two Of Us will break box office records.

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  • DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.netBluesky · Feb 24, 2026

    The first trailer for ‘THE BACKROOMS’ movie has been released. In theaters on May 29.

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  • Playboy @playboy.comBluesky · Jun 4, 2026

    "You lose such an extreme degree of creative specificity." As Demi Moore and Martin Scorsese rave about AI, Kane Parsons, who recently became the youngest director to ever helm a #1 film with "Backrooms", is no fan of AI in filmmaking.

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  • DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.netBluesky · May 26, 2026

    At 20 years old, Kane Parsons may become the youngest filmmaker to have a film #1 at the box office in its opening weekend. ‘BACKROOMS’ is tracking for a $40M-$50M opening.

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  • Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.coBluesky · Jun 11, 2025

    ‘The Backrooms’ film has been greenlit at A24 • Based on the viral YouTube horror universe • Kane Parsons becomes the youngest director in A24 history at 19 years old

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  • Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 15, 2026

    I reviewed BACKROOMS, a strange and elliptical film about placelessness, self, and memory. I liked it quite a bit, and appreciated how much it left up to the viewer's interpretation. www.patreon.com/scumbelievab...

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  • Google Balloweens @googleballs.comBluesky · Jun 17, 2026

    'GOOGLE BALLS' have been found in the 'BACKROOMS' movie directed by Kane Parsons. He and the balls are only 20 years old.

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  • DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.netBluesky · Jul 12, 2026

    Kane Parsons says that the bonus footage from the ‘BACKROOMS: EVERYTHING MUST GO’ version of the film will be on YouTube this week.

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  • Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.coBluesky · Jun 3, 2026

    ‘Backrooms’ is already A24’s highest-grossing film ever domestically 💰 The movie has been out for 6 days

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  • Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.coBluesky · Jun 21, 2026

    ‘Backrooms’ crosses $300M at the global box office 💰 • First A24 film to do this • Production budget was $10M

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  • Trevors (1990) starring Kevin Bacon @slimyswampghost.bsky.socialBluesky · May 30, 2026

    if you want to see the new Backrooms film, you should have to see it on the bottom level of a decaying abandoned mall or department store.

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  • DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.netBluesky · Jul 18, 2026

    Kane Parsons has clarified that A24 holds the rights to any future ‘BACKROOMS’ film or TV show that he plans to develop. He adds that he doesn’t support their AI deal with Google which will not crossover with any of his future projects.

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  • > Sev! @therealnumber7.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 8, 2026

    Kane Parsons has reportedly started work on a new film following the success of 'BACKROOMS'. "Remember that one minus world glitch? Yeah." He is only 8-bits.

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  • Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.comBluesky · Mar 31, 2026

    BACKROOMS. Everything must go. Watch the official trailer for BACKROOMS, a Kane Parsons film starring Academy Award nominees Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve. Experience it only in theaters 05.29.26.

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  • Brandon Santiago @4brandonjs4.bsky.socialBluesky · May 30, 2026

    Good movie. #backrooms

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  • Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.coBluesky · Jun 7, 2026

    ‘Backrooms’ crosses $200M at the global box office 💰 Officially A24's highest grossing movie of all time

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  • Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.coBluesky · Aug 18, 2025

    ‘The Backrooms’ movie is now filming 🎬 • Based on the viral YouTube horror universe • Kane Parsons is now the youngest director in A24 history at 20 years old • Releasing in 2026

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  • Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 1, 2026

    I wish that the success of films like the Backrooms wasn't completely misinterpreted by film executives. Horror has been absolutely thriving the last decade because the number of original, small budget, films outnumbers the bloated budget overproduced remakes. Horror holds space for unique originals

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  • Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.coBluesky · Mar 30, 2026

    New posters for ‘The Backrooms’ movie Trailer releases tomorrow

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  • Trevors (1990) starring Kevin Bacon @slimyswampghost.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 2, 2026

    ...haven't really stopped thinking about the Backrooms film...

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  • TomTC 🐰 @tomtcart.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 14, 2026

    Finally watched the Backrooms movie

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  • DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.netBluesky · Aug 18, 2025

    First look at ‘THE BACKROOMS’ movie. Kane Parsons is directing the film and will be the youngest director ever for A24 at 20 years old.

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  • Pop Crave @popcrave.comBluesky · Jun 5, 2026

    Kane Parsons’ ‘Backrooms’ has surpassed $100 million at the domestic box office. It becomes A24’s first film to achieve this.

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  • DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.netBluesky · Jun 11, 2025

    ‘THE BACKROOMS’ movie has been greenlit at A24 • Renate Reinsve and Chiwetel Ejiofor will star in the film • Kane Parsons will be the youngest director ever for A24 at 19 years old • Filming begins this Summer

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  • Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.coBluesky · Feb 23, 2026

    The first look at Kane Parsons’ ‘Backrooms’ movie releases tomorrow In theaters on May 29

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  • april the ufsiguhjbnakjgbnkajbfvjhavbjkabg @sharkgirlfrotting.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 7, 2026

    REPORT: Anti-Kane Parsons has just filmed 'BACKROOMS' entirely in reverse, cancelling out the original Kane Parsons' film. He is -20 years old.

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  • Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.coBluesky · May 29, 2026

    ‘Backrooms’ grosses $10.4M in domestic previews 💰 The film is on pace to have A24’s biggest opening ever at the box office

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  • DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.netBluesky · Apr 23, 2026

    New look at the ‘BACKROOMS’ movie. In theaters on May 29.

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  • Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.comBluesky · Oct 6, 2026

    The official SCOOBY-DOO account is celebrating Halloween with a series of parody posters paying tribute to OBSESSION, BACKROOMS, WEAPONS and more. See the full lineup: bloody-disgusting.com/movie/397057...

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  • J HRMNY (he/they) @jhrmny.eurosky.socialBluesky · Jun 4, 2026

    Here’s my thing. Having seen Backrooms and Obsession the same night, I can say that Obsession is a 10/10 horror film. But Backrooms is *sticking* with me, man. That movie is so good in so many different ways. Not really horror imo

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  • Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 7, 2026

    I think "Backrooms" likes the Backrooms too much to be an effective horror movie. Even the main character (and by extension the director) seems to agree that the most important thing about the Backrooms is that they're cool

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  • Keith Stack-o'-lantern @keithstack.comBluesky · May 29, 2026

    saw The Backrooms The Movie very good, very spooky, but unfortunately my theater had no napkins available, zero napkins

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  • Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.coBluesky · Jun 21, 2026

    ‘Backrooms’ crosses $300M at the global box office 💰 • First A24 film to do this • Production budget was $10M

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  • Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 6, 2026

    is Backrooms a vaguely anti-psychology movie? have any of you seen anyone interpret it this way

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  • DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.netBluesky · May 1, 2026

    New look at the ‘BACKROOMS’ movie. In theaters on May 29.

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  • Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tvBluesky · May 29, 2026

    Idk if I’ll ever see the Backrooms movie but imo they ruined the backrooms when they added Roblox rainbow friends to it

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  • innes mck @innes.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 7, 2026

    if i was a cinema showing Backrooms i would rapidly rearrange and redecorate the corridor outside while everyone is in the film

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  • Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tvBluesky · Jun 13, 2026

    I’m really curious how The Backrooms plays to the wiki scouring, Roblox playing Backrooms audience because it really did feel like an actual film hoping to explore themes and present the audience with an actual movie and not just “here’s all Backrooms lore, there’s this SCP creature in here”

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  • Patrick Klepek @patrickklepek.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 17, 2026

    Backrooms + Obsession back-to-back movie night date night let’s goooooooo

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  • donoteat @donoteat.bsky.socialBluesky · May 30, 2026

    not impressed with the Backrooms film tbh. I've been trapped in penn station for three hours help

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  • Andy “voice of Brak” Merrill. 🎅🏻🤡🐒💩 @amerrill2.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 26, 2026

    Welp, I got my first 100K view on TikTok. I guess people loved that Backrooms movie.

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  • Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.socialBluesky · May 30, 2026

    Backrooms is a great film if you want to feed your suspicion that none of this is real while also feeling like you might throw up in your mouth for 1h45 (compliment)

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