Backrooms is redefining the horror genre as director Kane Parsons breaks down the ending as well as Clark's fate as it dominates the box office.

Portals from across the world were featured on the 'Backrooms' movie Instagram, two of which were from Phoenix. Here's where fans think they are.

With the viral YouTube sensation The Backrooms having now inspired a mainstream horror film, let's take a look back at the history of this phenomenon.

There’s one spot in the Backrooms that fans already recognized as an airport Holiday Inn.  DV: We did. We also scouted the suburban street — those are all garages, and we dressed them to look like front doors.

What began as a creepy message board post has now become an A24 horror movie with a pair of Academy Award-nominated stars and a 20-year-old director. Here’s how we got here.

It's a slow-burn horror that relies on the unsettling nature of that uncanny limbo to build atmospheric dread before ratcheting up to true cosmic horror. It also has years of internet lore backing up its premise.

The Backrooms has always been among the strangest horror success stories of the internet era. This whole thing started with just one unsettling image posted online and eventually turned into a huge horror phenomenon that is now being discussed in fan communities,

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 A24.

Kane Parsons’s Backrooms leaves a lot of potential on the table, but it’s still a fun watch. Our review here.