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A24's Backrooms Has a Full Trailer — and Its Found Footage Clips Have Left Me Absolutely Terrified
Kane Parsons’ viral YouTube shorts helped launch the adaptation, which pairs internet horror with Oscar winner Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve.
- A24 released the full trailer for The Backrooms on Wednesday, starring Oscar winner Chiwetel Ejiofor and Cannes favorite Renate Reinsve, with the horror film premiering May 29.
- Director Kane Parsons, AKA Kane Pixels, created the viral shorts four years ago, amassing over 73 million views on YouTube before adapting his 4chan-inspired Creepypasta concept for cinema.
- Joining the cast are Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett, and Lukita Maxwell, with horror producers James Wan and Osgood Perkins attached to the project's slick aesthetic and signature sickly yellow design.
- Director Genki Kawamura's adaptation of the game Exit 8 joins this film as a new entry exploring spooky liminal spaces, reflecting growing cinematic interest in surreal, maze-like environments.
- Audiences must wait until May 29 to discover the film's secrets in theaters, as A24's adaptation promises an elevated horror experience blending found footage style with high-budget production values.
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The Backrooms trailer combines creepypasta dread and A24 prestige horror
Against all odds, A24’s adaptation of The Backrooms actually looks like a proper elevated horror movie. Hell, it’s even got Oscar winner Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave, Serenity) and Cannes favorite Renate Reinsve (Sentimental Value) onboard. Judging from the film’s fist trailer, which combines The Backrooms creepypasta-born dread around liminal spaces, and A24’s slick horror aesthetic, you couldn’t tell that its director can’t even legally …
A24's 'Backrooms' trailer teases a nightmarish journey into an eerie liminal space
It's time to "no clip out of reality" and into...somewhere else.Following on from a very eerie teaser we now have a full trailer for A24's Backrooms, Kane Parsons' feature length adaptation of his viral YouTube series which was in turn inspired by a 4chan creepypasta.In the video above we see a man (Chiwetel Ejiofor) discovering a doorway to what appears to be another dimension in the basement of a store. Cue an exploration of a horrifying yello…
The film "Backrooms", created and directed by Kane Parsons and produced by James Wan, wins trailer in this port (31), with Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett and Lukita Maxwell on the list. Its star is scheduled for 29 May in our movies. Read more (03/31/2026)
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