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.

/Film's resident scaredy-cat ventured into the Backrooms of Kane Parsons' web series. Here's how they fared against liminal horror.

"It's a real mess... but also beautiful, in a way." It's almost time to find out what's inside... A24 has debuted one final promo trailer for Backrooms, a feature film version of the web series made by YouTuber Kane Parsons aka "Kane Pixels". Opening in ...

Backrooms” is an example of how a film can be fascinating and frustrating at the same time. Director Kane Parsons’ (also known as Kane Pixels) translation of his 2022 viral web series – “The Backrooms” – into a big screen feature dares to wander down the everchanging hallways of the viewers mind with

From 4chan to A24, let's take a look at the history of the Backrooms creepypasta, covering its origins, evolution, gamification, and eventual movie.

By Adam Daniel, Western Sydney University 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.

Weirdly similar in set-up to recent video game adaptation Exit 8 – in which a man must navigate his way out of a subway station that’s stuck on a recurring loop – Backrooms makes more effective use of the premise, thanks to Parsons’ instinctive ...