The light below.

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Backrooms (Film)

What Is It?

The 2026 American science fiction psychological horror movie Backrooms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HjdiohVOik

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z6a6NUFlsU

This is how Wikipedia describes this movie:

Backrooms is a 2026 American science fiction psychological horror film.[6]

Directed and co-scored by Kane Parsons (in his feature-length directorial debut) and written by Will Soodik.[7][8]

It is based on Parsons’s web series and inspired by the “Backrooms” creepypasta.

In the film, Clark (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a furniture store owner, and Mary (Renate Reinsve), his therapist.

Discover a dimension of seemingly endless liminal spaces accessed through the basement of the store.

Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett, and Lukita Maxwell also star.

After uploading the web series in January 2022.

Parsons was approached by several studios about potentially adapting his series into a feature film.

In February 2023, it was officially announced that work had begun on a film adaptation of the Backrooms.

Based on Parsons’s videos, with Parsons directing.

Roberto Patino was initially set to write the screenplay, but was replaced by Will Soodik.

Filming began in the summer of 2025 and concluded in August 2025.

Backrooms premiered at the Aero Theatre in Los Angeles on May 7, 2026.

And was theatrically released in the United States by A24 on May 29.

The film received positive reviews from critics and has grossed $140.4 million worldwide.

Becoming A24’s biggest opening and domestic box office performance.

And making Parsons the youngest filmmaker to reach number one at the American box office.

As well as becoming the third-highest-grossing horror film of 2026.

Cast

Krista Kosonen as Nora Kline, Mary’s mother[13][14]

Chiwetel Ejiofor as Clark, a furniture store owner and failed architect[9]

Renate Reinsve as Dr. Mary Kline, Clark’s therapist[10]

Mark Duplass as Phil, an Async scientist and Backrooms researcher[11]

Finn Bennett as Robert “Bobby” Franklin, Kat’s boyfriend[9]

Lukita Maxwell as Kathrine “Kat” Taylor, Clark’s employee and Bobby’s girlfriend[9]

Avan Jogia as Naren Warne, an Async explorer of the Backrooms

Robert Bobroczkyi[12] as Pirate Clark, a monstrous entity resembling Clark in a pirate costume that inhabits the Backrooms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrzdr78XK2Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmFO_jwJIh4

My Thoughts

When my brother GC and I heard that Kane Parsons (Kane Pixels) was getting to make a Backrooms movie.

That would be distributed by A24 to movie theaters / the cinema.

We knew that we would probably watch it.

Because we follow his YouTube channel, and we have seen most of his short films about The Backrooms.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVAh-MgDVqvDUEq6qDXqORBioE4Yhol_z

As well as various other people’s unique takes on The Backrooms with their own short films on YouTube.

So we wanted to go out and support a YouTuber making his first major movie.

I did not realize how young he was until I heard it on the news.

Congratulations, young man, for achieving so much, and I look forward to your future projects.

This movie is not for everyone. Do not watch it when you are tired and distracted, et cetera.

Watch it when you are in the mood for a slower-paced indie movie with a liminal space.

I watched this on Sunday, May 31, 2026, at the Regal movie theater in the city of L.

With my brother GC, my brother CC, my brother KDC, and my sister-in-law KC.

Unfortunately, this movie did not stick to his usual formula for The Backrooms.

Which is first-person, found footage, and an exploration of the liminal space known as The Backrooms.

I wish that would have been the main focus of this movie.

Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve had good performances.

I hope to see Renate Reinsve in another movie or TV show in the future.

But I wish that they had spent more time exploring The Backrooms.

I also wish that we would have seen more unique areas in The Backrooms.

I also wish that a certain entity had either stayed in the shadows or that it did not look as goofy.

My brother GC and I did not like this movie as much as we had expected.

Because it was slower than expected and did not follow The Backrooms formulas as much as expected.

It was not bad, and I do want to watch it again when it is available at home.

Because I think that this might be a movie that I will like better on the second viewing.

Because when I left the movie theater / cinema, I was not exactly sure how I felt about this movie.

So I need to see it again.

Under more comfortable conditions, like at home when I am in the mood for this type of movie.

The rest of my family who watched it with me, besides my brother GC, did not like this movie.

But KDC and KC have disliked almost every movie that I have watched with them so far, so this is nothing new. :D

I would still recommend this movie to people who want to watch a movie like this.

I would rate it a 3.5 out of 5.

The end,

• John Jr

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