'The Backrooms': How a Teenager’s Creepy YouTube Series Became the Year’s Most Anticipated Horror
The A24 release earned $81.4 million in U.S. opening-weekend ticket sales, making Kane Parsons the youngest director to reach No. 1 at age 20.
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'The Backrooms': How a teenager’s creepy YouTube series became the year’s most anticipated horror
Before Kane Parsons had a Hollywood deal, he had a cheap laptop in his bedroom, a consumer-grade camera, and a grainy image from a 4chan forum. Now 20, the filmmaker known online as Kane Pixels has gone from posting lo-fi horror videos on YouTube as a teenager to directing a film with the popular studio […] The post ‘The Backrooms’: How a teenager’s creepy YouTube series became the year’s most anticipated horror appeared first on Interaksyon.
Hollywood will not forget the last weekend of May 2026, as the independent film “Backrooms” surprised the industry by raising $81 million on its opening weekend.
Why did the “Backrooms” meme become a film?
How an internet message board turned into “Backrooms” The horror movie Backrooms traces its origins to a digital scare: it grew out of an early, creepy message board post that helped define the “Backrooms” mythos online. A recent feature explains the path from that original creep factor to a…
The film takes over the mystery of the Backrooms, these strange spaces with a banal but disturbing appearance, and offers a disturbing explanation for their disturbing aesthetics, plunging the spectator into an alarming and captivating atmosphere.
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