Backrooms

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Backrooms

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In Theaters May 29

1h 50m

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

Kane Parsons

Director

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Actor

Renate Reinsve

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Mark Duplass

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Finn Bennett

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Lukita Maxwell

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Jake Wilson

Sydney Morning Herald

21m

3/5

But while Backrooms purists may rebel, the film remains both entertaining on its own terms and fascinating in a more inadvertent way: for all the hints of significance, it’s not easy to say what it’s ultimately “about”.

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Chase Hutchinson

Seattle Times

1h

3/4

A triumph of cinematography, editing, production design and visual effects, you almost wonder whether Parsons may have ventured into the real backrooms to shoot his film.

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Danny Leigh

Financial Times

1h

4/5

The internet never forgets, they say. Bold, skewed and downright freaky, Backrooms makes quite the preview of what that will actually look like.

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Lynn Venhaus

Webster-Kirkwood Times

1h

C

While the technical razzle-dazzle adds so much character to the film, Soodik’s ambiguous script is a letdown... All we’re left with is bizarre funhouse images, imagining how awful it must smell and wondering what lurks behind doors and hallways

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Alex Bentley

CultureMap

3h

The ambiguous nature of Backrooms lends it the possibility of becoming a franchise, as Parsons could seemingly take it in any direction he wanted and have it feel part of the larger whole.

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corydoras T

@RT89016860 1h

it was awesome!!! 😭😭

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Chid M

@RT76799544 1h

Good shit, i thought he did a great job, fam

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Andy C

@HaYouGay 1h

I just watched the best horror movie ever in years🔥🔥🔥

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Londyn L

@Londyn-Lara 1h

I found it really interesting, and well made. The entity looked absolutely horrifying yet beautifully crafted at the same time. It wasn’t exactly terrifying, but it had its scares, and it luckily was not people walking for almost 2 hours straight

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Jakub D

@Kjuba_a 1h

This was absolutly the best film ive ever watched i did not expect to be THIS good i totaly advise to watch it!

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Martine V

@RT22464753 1h

Great Movie. Although I was hoping for more exploration footage of the backrooms, it definitely did not dissapoint.

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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: Horror, Sci-Fi
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 29, 2026, Wide
Runtime: 1h 50m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital