'Backrooms' Director Kane Parsons Distances Hit From Horror Moniker

Kane Parsons Doesn't Consider 'Backrooms' a Horror Film: 'Oblivious to Those Labels'

"Backrooms" director Kane Parsons says that he doesn't consider his A24 hit to be "horror" and that the genre is a "framing device."

'Backrooms' Director Kane Parsons Distances Hit From Horror Moniker

Kane Parson’s $400M hit Backrooms, spinning off his web-series inspired by “creepypasta’ horror content on the internet, is invariably and understandably billed as a horror. The director told a panel at the Zurich Summit on Saturday, however, that he does not see it as being aligned with the genre. “I didn’t direct like a horror film. I don’t view it as a horror project. I think that’s just naturally been the path of least resistance from a ma…

Kane Parsons Recalls ‘Backrooms’ Trailer “Activated a Desire to See: How Did Hollywood Mess This Up?”

Luckily, the young filmmaker told the Zurich Summit that he likes to think he did the core idea of his iconic YouTube series justice — and touched on the possibility of a sequel.

Kane Parsons Reflects on Whirlwind Box Office Summer Post-‘Backrooms’

Twenty-one-year-old Kane Parsons is reflecting on a whirlwind summer in which the box office was undoubtedly bolstered by the release of his feature debut, Backrooms. Speaking with some of the industry’s top executives at the Zurich Film Festival Summit on Saturday afternoon, the young director spoke about the health of the 2026 box office, which […]