Before he became the youngest director ever tapped by indie powerhouse A24, Kane Parsons was creating horror videos from a quiet suburban neighborhood.

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.

Two Gen Z horror movies eclipsing a new Star Wars might signal a generational shift—but the real lesson for Hollywood might be bigger.

"I have never gotten so many calls with interest in my company," Craig Ferguson says, as the A24 picture surpasses all tracking projections by tens of millions.

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.

Film history is often marked by seismic changes that seemingly come out of nowhere. Movies are just movies, and then a group of kids in the 1970s start making Jaws, The Godfather, Mean Streets, and Star Wars.

Backrooms is a runaway hit — a horror phenomenon that went from a YouTube series to a smashing debut from 20-year-old director Kane Parsons that just had a

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.

Long before the aesthetic went viral via a 4chan creepypasta, and Kane Parsons introduced the world to his terrifying Backrooms on YouTube, liminal spaces appeared in movies of all genres, inviting viewers into the worlds suspended between worlds,