Directed By:Kane Parsons
Written By:Will Soodik, Kane Parsons
Backrooms
Metascore
Generally Favorable
77
User score
Generally Favorable
7.1
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
77
83% Positive
38 Reviews
38 Reviews
17% Mixed
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Jun 3, 2026
100
Backrooms could have easily been disposable internet-horror junk food—a feature-length extension of creepypasta aesthetics with nothing underneath. Instead, Parsons delivers something far more haunting: an affecting horror film about imprisonment, memory distortion, and the private hell of mistaking isolation for refuge.
May 27, 2026
85
Casts a surrealistic spell that’s unlike anything else in contemporary cinema.
User score
Generally Favorable
7.1
71% Positive
454 Ratings
454 Ratings
18% Mixed
114 Ratings
114 Ratings
11% Negative
69 Ratings
69 Ratings
Jul 29, 2026
10
This movie, holy, I loved the concept of the movie, it really made me think, and when it got to the end, I really REALLY wanted more. Still, I think it ended really well, covered everything that needed to be covered, the actors did insanely well, and it kept me glued to the screen the entire time. The fact that they didn't have a huge budget, it just makes you even more impressed. I think this is a must watch, and I will be watching the next movie when it comes out.
Jul 28, 2026
10
I liked a lot because it was very good and confusing. Some people don’t like it because it’s confusing but that’s the point of the backrooms. “It’s like explaining a dog to someone who’s never seen one before, then asking them to draw one”
May 27, 2026
80
Debut director Kane Parsons assuredly harnesses the creepy, mind-bending potential of this liminal concept, delivering an original horror that has both the scares and the smarts.
May 27, 2026
75
Backrooms is undeniable, both as a future load-bearing pillar of the internet-born horror movement that’s now breaking ground and for being built on a concept that feels truly new.
Jun 2, 2026
60
Backrooms suggests that while we’re teetering on the verge of something new, filmmakers are going to have to do more work to wrestle these nonnarrative, non-centralized ideas into something that can sustain a story.
May 27, 2026
40
It's like watching fantastically dull scenarios from the 2007 first person video game Portal apparently a source of inspiration for Parsons. There are breaks for backstory — Clark had a volatile marriage; Mary's mother was sectioned — but these add little meaningful context or narrative grounding.
Jul 7, 2026
10
Je ne regardes pas beaucoup de film, les films d'horreur en particulier sont tous les mêmes a mes yeux... Backrooms est différent, vraiment différent. Je connaissais très bien l'univers des backrooms et en particulier celui de Kane Parsons, malgré tout, je m'attendais a quelque chose de classique, grand public, rien de spécial... J'ai été tellement agréablement surpris !!!! De loin le meilleur film d'horreur que j'ai vu.
Jul 22, 2026
6
Really strong first half of the movie, but much weaker second half. Overall decent, but not something I’d care to watch twice. I would be interested in a sequel though.
Jul 20, 2026
6
It was a fine movie but not amazing. I liked the cinematography. I also liked the using of the found footage technique. But I think the movie could have been better.
Jun 19, 2026
3
I know very little about the online vids/story and games that this movie is based on, but I did not like the movie. It's very slow and confusing. When you think there's going to be an explanation about what's going on, you learn there won't be an explanation, and then the movie ends. I have my assumptions about what is going on based on the last few scenes, but the movie as a whole isn't worth the price of admission.
Production Company:
- A24
- 21 Laps Entertainment
- Atomic Monster
- Blumhouse-Atomic Monster
- Chernin Entertainment
- North Road Films
- Oddfellows Pictures
- Phobos
Release Date:May 29, 2026
Duration:1 h 50 m
Rating:R
Tagline:Everything must go.
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Awards
Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
• 6 Nominations
Astra Midseason Movie Awards
• 5 Nominations
Critics Choice Super Awards
• 3 Nominations
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