The Backrooms are a popular internet phenomenon that originated from a 2019 post on 4chan. Ever since that day, internet history was made.

In February 2023, a film adaptation of the Backrooms was announced as a joint production between A24, Chernin Entertainment, Atomic Monster, and 21 Laps Entertainment, with Kane Parsons directing and Roberto Patino writing. After three long years, their plan is finally about to come into fruition.

Releasing on May 29, 2026, “The Backrooms” film has gained a lot of attention across multiple media and has raised high expectations from fans. The movie has been long-awaited for multiple years, and fans are extremely excited over the film’s upcoming release. 

Kane Parsons (better known as Kane Pixels) is a prolific YouTube creator and director of the upcoming film, known for his viral found-footage horror scenarios, with the Backrooms being his most famous being named the Backrooms. Aside from the Backrooms, he also created “The Oldest View,” “People Still Live Here,” and a fan-made spin-off about the history of the popular anime “Attack on Titan,” which are also some of his most famous works.

Parsons’ unique YouTube content, often created using Blender, a free open-source 3D computer graphics software, consists of short-story films that utilize an analog, nostalgic aesthetic to create atmospheric horror. Utilizing this technique has allowed Parsons to gain much popularity and fame despite his young age in the YouTube community. 

Parsons began his YouTube career at the young age of nine on April 13, 2015. However, he did not start posting his major, viral short films until he was 16 years old in January of 2022.

The Backrooms have been a popular internet creepypasta and horror phenomenon featuring an infinite maze-like and unsettlingly familiar realm of empty rooms and dimly lit lights. Despite the deceiving name, no, creepypasta does not literally mean creepy pasta,

Creepypasta refers to horror-related legends, stories, and images that are often user-generated short stories that are meant to be copied and pasted around the internet for the purpose of scaring readers. The most popular creepypasta (one that most of us are all familiar with), for example, is Slenderman.

Aligning with the horror aspect, “The Backrooms” have also been thought to contain creepy monsters and strange (Special Containment Procedures)  SCPs that roam the halls, so it is best to remain cautious when playing. 

The creepypasta describes a fictional, alternate dimension of seemingly endless, empty office rooms with yellow wallpaper, damp carpets, and buzzing fluorescent lights. Accessed by no-clipping (glitching) out of reality, a person can find themselves trapped in a liminal space purged with dangerous entities.

Directed by Parsons, “The Backrooms” movie will follow the story of a therapist who enters a treacherous, infinite dimension of yellow, liminal office spaces to rescue her patient who had just vanished. However, little does she know that unknown entities and monsters are lurking around the corners.

A24, the studio behind the film, released the official trailer for the movie on March 31, with a runtime of about one hour and 45 minutes. A24, the company responsible for distributing the film, is rather popular. It is the same company that created “Euphoria”, “Marty Supreme”, “Hereditary”, “Materialists”, and so much more. 

As of now, “The Backrooms” film is currently being marketed as science fiction horror, as it blends elements of found footage and psychological horror to create a new genre of horror. Ever since the first release of the concept in 2019, people have created official and fan-made games, multiple theories, videos, and other sorts of media modeled after it. It is about time that they decided to release a movie on it, too.

Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett, and Lukita Maxwell, the story revolves around a strange door that mysteriously appeared in the basement of a furniture store. As a young therapist travels through the door to investigate, she finds herself trapped in a creepy, but oddly familiar space that just seems to never end.

Many fans of the original creepypasta have mixed opinions on it, with some stating that the film would just butcher the concept and that the story would be “too difficult” to deal with. However, others disagree and state that adapting the backrooms into a film is a wonderful idea.

Students on campus also added their opinions to the topic.

Freshman Zoey Garcia said, “I think the Backrooms movie is going to be very interesting and entertaining because the games and theories have been out for so long, and I’m really excited to see the film in theaters and on the big screen.”

Freshman Logan McCullough also added his thoughts on wanting to see the film. McCullough said, “I don’t think that it is going to be really good, but I want to go see it just to see it.”

Whether “The Backrooms” film will be a success or not is something we will soon find out, but I can say for certain that it is certainly going to be a step in the right direction for the horror aspect of the movie industry.