Back in 2022, a teenage filmmaker named Kane Parsons uploaded a found‑footage horror short called The Backrooms (Found Footage) to YouTube, and it exploded across the internet. The video was turned ...

The Backrooms movie was not the end of the concept. About two and a half months after A24 released Kane Parsons’ Backrooms to theaters — where it became one of 2026’s biggest surprise hits — Parsons ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An upcoming A24 horror film will imagine the fictional world of Backrooms, a niche digital-era urban legend that's gone mainstream ...

A24 pulled back the curtain to Backrooms, teasing an unsettling, must-see sci-fi horror movie from director Kane Parsons. Based on Parsons’s web series of the same name, Backrooms follows a ...

Luckily, the young filmmaker told the Zurich Summit that he likes to think he did the core idea of his iconic YouTube series ...

Backrooms is the latest hit of 2026, and it continues two recent trends in the horror genre. 2025 was a great year for horror, and that has carried over to 2026. There have been several indie ...

Watch the 'Backrooms' filmmaker reflect on the film's box office success and tease his dream to turn the franchise into a ...

Indie horror is having more than a moment. First, it was Obsession, which crossed the $100 million box office mark in its third weekend. And the trend continues with psychological horror film ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you're wondering if "Backrooms" is coming full circle, yes, it is. The film, released May 29, is being shown at Marcus Theaters ...

The Backrooms movie will be released in theaters on May 29. Liminal spaces – dreamy and nostalgic locales defined by their specific use as a transient space that you don’t spend much time in but ...

Rating: ★★★½This is the first time I've watched a film by a director younger than me. It was truly wonderful. Before watching ...