A24's Backrooms film is an excellent film adaptation that does justice to its source material and Kane Parsons' web series.

If you’re blown away by the fact that the buzzy, upcoming A24 horror flick Backrooms was directed by a then-19-year-old kid—the youngest director in A24 history—don’t worry, it gets worse: That kid, Kane Parsons,

Parsons has gone from YouTube creator to A24’s youngest-ever director

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.

Backrooms spawned from a YouTube series, and if you want to familiarize yourself with the world, these are the videos to check out.

Backrooms turns a bizarre YouTube horror phenomenon into a mainstream hit, and that compromise may be exactly why it works.

Backrooms director Kane Parsons shares with CinemaBlend how he decided to shoot his A24 horror movie after going viral for his YouTube series on the subject.

Against a production budget of $10 million, co-financed by A24 and Chernin Entertainment, the numbers represent one of the most profitable launches of 2026 and the clearest signal yet that the generation of filmmakers who built audiences on YouTube is now dominating theatrical cinema.

With this in mind I was never worried about the authenticity of A24's Backrooms film, but I was still hesitant to see how well the creepypasta would translate to a feature-length movie. Could Parsons explain the backrooms to fresh eyes (which would likely be a good chunk of its audience),