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

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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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Andrew Wyatt

The Take-Up

2h

Against all odds, Kane Parsons' buzzy debut feature threads the needle in more ways than one. Balancing the familiar and the uncanny, the personal and the cosmic, 'Backrooms' illustrates that the future of horror is in good hands.

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Troy Ribeiro

Free Press Journal (India)

17h

3.5/ 5

With its distinctive visual imagination and sophisticated understanding of fear's quieter registers, Backrooms transforms digital folklore into an absorbing cinematic experience while announcing the arrival of a filmmaker worth watching...

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Sucharita Tyagi

Sucharita Tyagi (YouTube)

1d

I frankly cannot believe that something speaking a beautiful new artistic language can come from a pure internet phenomenon.

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Isaac

58m

Very awesome concept , very eerie. I liked it. I watched it with my sister.

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Amia

1h

Wonderful. Beautiful. Visually amazing. I loved the store and what is being built!

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mark m

3h

Very unique film, one of the most interesting films I’ve seen this year. Pretty amazing visuals, and well the story or character characters are occasionally slightly uneven, as a hole, the film works. Will be interesting to see what this very young director comes up with Next, and a definite win for A24.

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Cassius

4h

Emotional roller coaster!

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Michael L

9h

I have never been so disturbed in a film as I was in this one. The visceral response that I had to this film was unlike anything I’ve ever felt before outside of a bad drug trip. There are so many ideas and psychological mind fu€ks in this film you could talk about it forever. I almost had to leave the theater at one point, it unnerved me so much, and almost NOTHING in typical horror movies bothers me.

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Liq

17h

Big swings that fall flat only as bad as it’s beginning pacing

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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)