EXCLUSIVE: Backrooms director and cast break down turning a viral webseries into one of A24’s most unsettling horror films
A24's Backrooms, directed by Kane Parsons, is a horror film based on a viral webseries. The story follows a therapist searching for her missing patient in an alternate dimension. This film exemplifies the trend of YouTubers transitioning into filmmaking, particularly in the horror genre.
- ▪Backrooms is directed by 20-year-old Kane Parsons and stars Renate Reinsve and Chiwetel Ejiofor.
- ▪The film is inspired by an internet creepypasta and has gained popularity through Parsons' viral YouTube shorts.
- ▪Backrooms continues the rise of liminal horror stories, joining the ranks of films like Skinamarink and I Saw the TV Glow.
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In recent years, multiple popular YouTubers have successfully made the leap into horror filmmaking, and A24’s Backrooms may be the most ambitious example yet. Directed by 20-year-old Kane Parsons, Backrooms follows therapist Mary (Renate Reinsve) as she searches for her patient Carl (Chiwetel Ejiofor) after he vanishes into a strange alternate dimension hidden behind his furniture store. Though Backrooms is based on an internet creepypasta, Parsons popularized the concept through his viral YouTube shorts, transforming an online myth into one of the internet’s defining modern horror phenomena.
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