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A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

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In Theaters May 29, 2026

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Critics Consensus

A startlingly assured feature debut from director Kane Parsons, Backrooms bends the liminal spaces that have haunted the internet for years into a horror film that's as mesmerizing as it is terrifying.

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Audience Says

Powered by a magnetic cast, Backrooms may oscillate between atmospheric allure and oneiric disorientation, but Kanepixels’ spell remains undeniable.

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Nadira Goffe

Slate

Jun 5

The Backrooms part of Backrooms is great, well-rendered, and incredibly unsettling. Though the story supporting the film could use a little work, the production is overall an achievement.

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Ty Burr

Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack)

Jun 3

3/4

The movie’s grip holds, even past the point where it’s clear no traditional explanation is coming to save the characters or us.

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Colleen Morrissey

Chicago Reader

Jun 2

In all, this is a deliciously unnerving and accomplished film from a very young filmmaker.

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Tina Kakadelis

Beyond the Cinerama Dome

1h

It’s exciting that a film based on an internet story could make it to the big screen helmed by a teenager, but Backrooms needed to plot its path in a more honed-in fashion.

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Paul Emmanuel Enicola

Movie-Blogger.com

3h

3/5

...the fairest way to talk about Backrooms: not as a perfect expansion of an internet phenomenon, and not as a failed experiment either. It sits in the uneasy middle, where the best parts are good enough to make the weaker ones more frustrating.

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Shalini Langer

The Indian Express

1d

3/5

This certainly innovative horror of Parson’s imagination works best when it leaves us to try and put two and two together, scrap it, and try all over again. What gives Backrooms its punch is the sense of the inexplicable and yet the familiar...

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Isaias

1h

pretty enjoyable, unfortunately its a whole lot of nothing happening

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William Tufo

1h

would have liked it to be a little more scary but I think it nailed it when it came to the uneasy feeling and walking into the unknown

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kaydin

2h

leaving this review while waiting for the showtime of my second viewing because seeing it just once isnt enough. you'll always end up returning to the backrooms

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matthew

3h

It was alright, not my favorite. Kind of creepy but the story really didn’t make any sense.

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Amy

4h

The Backrooms story was incredible. The cinematography was surprisingly good for a horror movie and the acting was outstanding. I enjoyed how the plot wasn't explained to us. For example: Mary never said "Okay, I'm going to Captain Clark's Ottoman Empire, the store where Clark works, to find Clark." instead she just went. I think thats very admirable in films when a lot of people have a low attention span. I'm glad that I went in with all the information given in the web series and film theory videos. Overall the plot was great. I loved the metaphor of how Clark didn't want to change and how he sat with his trauma that eventually consumed him and how Mary did want to change and how she left her trauma, 'opened the window', and moved on.

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Antonio

4h

it was good, but I was expecting more of a horror. if you are into suspense then this is definitely the movie for you

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Synopsis

A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

Director: Kane Parsons
Producer: James Wan, Michael Clear, Roberto Patino, Shawn Levy, Dan Cohen, Dan Levine, Oz Perkins, Chris Ferguson, Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, Kori Adelson
Screenwriter: Will Soodik
Distributor: A24
Production Co: A24, Chernin Entertainment, 21 Laps Entertainment, Atomic Monster
Rating: R (Some Violent Content|Language|Bloody Images)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Mystery & Thriller, Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 29, 2026, Wide
Runtime: 1h 50m
Sound Mix: Dolby Atmos
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)