The new cerebral horror film “Backrooms” cleaned up at the box office this weekend, bringing in $81 million domestically and $118 million total including worldwide sales. Thousands of people have found themselves lost down the rabbit hole of the chilling movie, which happens to take place nearly entirely in a Bay Area strip mall.

Blumhouse shared the milestone on its official Instagram account, posting a graphic celebrating Backrooms as the No. 1 movie in the world and the biggest (and latest) A24 movie opening ever. At the same time,

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.

Director Kane Parsons’ horror thriller "Backrooms" opened with an estimated $81 million over the weekend against a $10 million production budget, an amount more than enough to justify the production of at least one sequel.

Horror films with minuscule budgets reigned supreme at the late May box office, knocking the latest Star Wars film, “The Mandalorian & Grogu,” down to third place in its second weekend, with $25 million.

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

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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),