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Your brain on "backrooms": The horror concept of the summer explained

The unsettling pull of liminal spaces—empty offices, endless corridors and fluorescent-lit hallways—has moved from obscure internet fascination into the mainstream with Backrooms, a Hollywood film ins...

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Backrooms Ending Explained: Why Horror Movie’s Finale Is Proving Divisive

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Are you sitting uncomfortably? How Backrooms upended the horror movie

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Kane Parsons talks "Backrooms" success and why he doesn't want to embrace AI

At just 20 years old, director Kane Parsons is making movie history.

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Is ‘Backrooms’ Really About Generative AI?

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‘Backrooms’ Crossing $100 Million Today, A Domestic Box Office First For A24

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The original Backrooms films on YouTube are even creepier than the blockbuster movie

In 2022, a 16-year-old Kane Parsons taught himself how to use the free animation software Blender and posted a short Backrooms film on YouTube.

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Backrooms Horror Movie Sets Huge Box Office Record for A24

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Backrooms box office: Kane Parsons' horror success explained

This weekend, “Backrooms” entered the mainstream. A24’s buzzy horror film, directed by 20-year-old YouTube phenom Kane Parsons, obliterated box office expectations with $81 million domestically and $118 million worldwide in its opening weekend.

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What is liminal horror? The viral trend behind Backrooms and Exit 8 explained

Following the release of 2025's psychological horror "Exit 8," and with A24's "Backrooms" set to bring liminal horror to the masses, many will be wondering about this emerging sub-genre and its online origins. "Backrooms" is directed by Kane Parsons, the ...

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Five Horror Movies to Stream Now

This month brings paranoid psychopaths, ungodly subjugations and fiery suspicions. By Erik Piepenburg Stream it on Screambox. In a recent video, the director Gabriel Bernini and the screenwriter Alexandra Jade explained how they affectionately “ripped ...