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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.

Based on a series of YouTube videos, the horror movie "Backrooms" is killing it at the box office. Find out why this creepypasta adaptation is blowing up.

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,

Who said the American Dream was dead? Before he became the youngest director ever tapped by indie powerhouse A24, Kane Parsons was creating horror videos from a quiet suburban neighborhood in Petaluma,

"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.

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

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.

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

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.