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The Backrooms are expanding: A24's box office record-breaker isn't done, confirms Kane Parsons

After smashing box office records, the director of 2026's weirdest mainstream horror movie says Backrooms has more places to go before it's done

News by Grant DeArmitt, Staff Writer

Published on Mon Jun 01 2026

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Will there be a Backrooms sequel?

Studio A24 has not officially announced a sequel to Kane Parson's suprise-hit surrealist scarefest Backrooms as of June 2026. That said, we know for a fact that the 20-year-old director is absolutely thinking about it. After all, the whole point of the Backrooms is that they go on and on, and Parsons has a similar attitude toward the next steps for his indie horror sensation.

That's the message Parsons imparted to Variety, in an interview published May 29. Hot off the heels of Backrooms' staggering opening weekend (the film is the 4th biggest R-Rated opening in history, per Forbes), the director touched on his origins making short films for YouTube and, eventually, got onto the subject of where his future in the genre lay.

And the good news is, Backrooms is absolutely a part of that.

"For people who are into it," Parsons told the outlet, "I’ve got a contract, and I got a hold at my end, and that means I am definitely not done with Backrooms. I’ve got very specific things that I’m working on, things are in the works right now that I am eager to be able to talk about, but, currently, it’s still in a secret mystery world."

Sure, it's as cryptic a message as you'd expect from the helmer of the current global box office #1 (the youngest director to ever achieve that, by the way), but it definitely means that there's more coming that's at least from the same creepy, liminal space as broke last weekend's box office brains.

I guess in our worlds, not finding a way out of those yellow walls isn't the worst thing.

Backrooms is in theaters now.

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Grant DeArmitt: Grant DeArmitt (he/him) likes horror, comics, and the unholy union of the two. In the past, and despite their better judgment, he has written for Nightmare on Film Street and Newsarama. He lives in Brooklyn with his partner, Kingsley, and corgi, Legs.