A24 escorts you into a liminal nightmare in the upcoming horror movie Backrooms, a big screen expansion of director Kane Parsons’ massively viral YouTube horror universe.
From producer James Wan, A24 will release Backrooms in theaters May 29.
The very first teaser trailer has been unleashed this morning…
“I found something… I found a place,” a man says in the unsettling teaser trailer. “It’s massive in there. It just goes on and on and on. All these rooms. This place built them. Actually more like it remembers them. And the more times it remembers something, the less it does.”
The Backrooms movie cast includes…
Chiwetel Ejiofor
Renate Reinsve
Mark Duplass
Finn Bennett
Lukita Maxwell
Avan Jogia
The science fiction horror film is based on the world of Kane Parsons’s viral videos. The film plot is being kept under wraps. The press release detailed, “Kane Parsons is a 19-year-old director and VFX artist. His viral found footage YouTube series The Backrooms has amassed nearly 100 million views. Parsons will direct the film over his Summer vacation.”
What are the Backrooms?
Wikipedia explains, “The Backrooms are a fictional location originating from a 2019 4chan thread. One of the best examples of the liminal space aesthetic, The Backrooms are usually portrayed as an impossibly large extradimensional expanse of empty rooms, accessed by exiting (“no-clipping out of”) reality.” It was Kane Parsons who took the Backrooms mythology to a new level with his Kane Pixels YouTube shorts, which now get a movie expansion.
A24, Atomic Monster, Chernin Entertainment and 21 Laps Entertainment are joining forces on the project, with Will Soodik and Roberto Patino writing.
James Wan and Michael Clear are producing for Wan’s Atomic Monster.
NEON is also getting into the liminal horror space with their upcoming Exit 8 movie, based on the popular video game created by Kotake Create. It’s releasing in theaters on April 10.
Watch the official teaser trailer for the Backrooms movie below.
