'Backrooms' Director Kane Parsons: ‘I Plan on Continuing It – Backrooms Is Not Done’
Kane Parsons adapts his viral YouTube horror series into an A24 feature that is expected to top its $10 million budget.
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‘Backrooms’ Director Kane Parsons Explains It All: Breaking Down Liminal Spaces, Why He Was Nervous His Work Might Get ‘Butchered by Suits’ and What Sequels Might Look Like
Director Kane Parsons explains the lore of 'Backrooms' for people who aren't yet initiated, and talks about future installments.
Long, endless, labyrinthine corridors covered with yellow wallpaper, the smell of moisture everywhere, and a constant buzz produced by lights that barely illuminate the space are part of a new horror film.This is The Backrooms, a tape from studio A24—who is behind productions like Midsommar, Hereditary, and The Witch—that brings to the big screen one of the most popular contemporary creepies.Unlike other films, The Backrooms portrays a disturbin…
Film Review: Backrooms - Santa Monica News, Events & Local Politics
By Dolores Quintana Empty spaces filled with fear. The fear of a liminal space, or a place that is abandoned or empty, is a lot like one of human beings’ most popular fears, the fear of the dark. You aren’t really afraid of the empty space or the dark; you are afraid of what might happen or what might be in that darkness or unseen in that seemingly abandoned place. Another fear is that the space might be infinite and inescapable. Backrooms, the…
'Backrooms' director Kane Parsons: ‘I plan on continuing it – Backrooms is not done’
The horror genre may never be the same again: at the age of 20, Kane Parsons has directed a masterwork for A24. Backrooms, based on internet lore around liminal spaces, looks set to be a critical and commercial smash. Here, Rolling Stone UK meets an exciting new voice in moviemaking.
Kane Parsons On ‘Backrooms,’ Liminal Horror, “Lore Bloat” & Turning An Internet Phenomenon Into An A24 Film
At just 20 years old, Kane Parsons has already gone from anonymous internet horror experimenter to the youngest filmmaker ever to direct a feature for A24. What began as a series of eerie, lo-fi “Backrooms” videos uploaded online when Parsons was still a teenager has evolved into one of the most anticipated horror projects in recent memory—a surreal, psychologically disorienting feature adaptation starring Chiwetel Ejiofor. Continue reading Kane…
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