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A24's new horror movie Backrooms releases a trailer that's true to its creepypasta origins
Kane Parsons is bringing his empty room terror from YouTube to movie theaters this May.
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Backrooms — the upcoming A24 horror movie from first-time director Kane Parsons that’s based on creepypasta and YouTube memes — has released its first trailer, and while it’s something that might confuse and entice mainstream moviegoers in equal measure, longtime fans of Parsons' web series of the same name should feel quite at home.
Backrooms (the movie) is directed by Parsons and written by former Sons of Anarchy and Westworld writer Roberto Patino and Will Soodik, another Westworld veteran; it’s adapted from Parsons' long-running series of web shorts that has been sporadically published on YouTube since 2022. While the original series featured a number of faux found footage films ostensibly about the investigation into ‘The Complex’ — a series of liminal, seemingly extra-dimensional, spaces that may be linked with a number of missing person cases — the movie is promising a more traditional narrative, with the logline for the movie reading, “After a therapist's patient goes missing into a dimension beyond reality, she has to enter the unknown to save him.”
That said, the first trailer for the movie mirrors the empty-space-and-voiceover format of the original YouTube videos remarkably well. Take a look for yourself.
Seem curiously disorienting? The first poster for the movie doubles down on that, given that it’s literally just wallpaper.
The tagline of Backrooms, the movie? “You’re not supposed to be here.”
The movie stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett, and Lukita Maxwell, and will be in theaters on May 29.
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