A24 has shared the first trailer of Backrooms, and it already gives a very strange and uneasy feeling. The film stars, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve, and it follows a story where a normal place suddenly opens into something that should not exist. Directed by Kane Parsons, the film is based on his viral YouTube series. It is set to release in theatres on May 29, 2026, and the early look shows a world where getting lost might mean never coming back.
Kane Parsons’s ‘Backrooms’ film is based on a viral YouTube series and urban legend
The story comes from a very popular internet idea known as the Backrooms. It started as an online urban legend and later grew into a full video series created by Kane Parsons in 2022. His videos showed empty spaces that looked normal at first but slowly felt wrong and endless. Now, the film builds on that same idea. This time, the story centres around a strange doorway that appears inside the basement of a furniture showroom. It looks like a normal space that turns into a maze of rooms that do not follow any logic.
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