So what exactly are the Backrooms, and why is everyone so very excited about this new horror movie? Like so many modern horror concepts, the Backrooms began as a meme on 4Chan. In 2018, someone anonymously posted an image of a yellow room where the walls just didn’t fit right.

The ‘Backrooms’ monster torments Clark (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and Dr. Mary Kline (Renate Reinsve), alongside other mysteries—here’s what it all means.

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,

Kane Parsons' beguiling debut leaps from YouTube to chronicle our inadvertent journey into a beige emotional void

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clark looking in through a window in Backrooms - A24 Some readers may be old enough to remember the furor kicked up over the phenomenon of subliminal messaging making its way into pop ...

In 2019, a 4chan user posted a photo of a windowless, yellow, empty room. The photo prompted internet lore about otherworldly “backrooms” and became a well-known example of liminal spaces. @bexcastillo chatted with our film critic Amy Nicholson about L ...

Kane Parsons' movie, which is based on his series of YouTube shorts, which was in turn inspired by a 4chan creepypasta, takes us into a nightmarish other world that plays with the eerie concept of liminal space.

Chiwetel Ejiofor plays a troubled furniture-store owner in a movie that turns the Internet memes of liminal space into an atmospheric freakout.