A24 has released an official clip from Backrooms, Kane Parsons’ feature adaptation of his viral internet horror universe.
Unlike a traditional horror setup, Backrooms does not need a haunted house, a masked killer or a demon jumping out from behind a door. Its terror comes from something stranger and more unsettling: spaces that look almost familiar, but not quite human. Empty hallways, fluorescent lights, endless rooms and office-like corridors become frightening because they feel abandoned by meaning.
That is exactly what makes this new clip effective. It pulls the audience back into the film’s central nightmare: the idea of slipping out of normal reality and into a place that was never meant to be found. The Backrooms are not just a location. They are a psychological trap, a maze of architecture that feels copied from memory but corrupted in the process.
The film stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett and Lukita Maxwell, with Parsons directing from a screenplay by Will Soodik. For longtime fans of the original online series, the biggest draw is seeing whether the uncanny digital atmosphere of Parsons’ YouTube work can survive the jump to a full theatrical feature. Based on the footage A24 has released so far, the answer seems to be yes — and in a much larger, more oppressive form.
What makes Backrooms especially interesting is how modern its horror language feels. This is not just a creepypasta being adapted for cinemas. It is internet-born fear translated into a physical movie space. The horror comes from liminal imagery, spatial anxiety and the deeply uncomfortable feeling that you have wandered into somewhere that recognises you, even though it should not exist.
For fans of atmospheric horror films, Backrooms looks like one of A24’s most distinctive genre releases of the year. The clip does not need to explain everything, and honestly, it should not. The less the Backrooms are defined, the more power they have. Some nightmares work best when the door opens, the light hums, and nobody can tell you where the hell you are.
Backrooms is now playing in theaters.
Video source: A24
