Overview
- The film opened to roughly $38 million on Friday and is tracking for an $85–$90 million domestic opening weekend, giving A24 its biggest debut to date.
- Produced for an estimated $10 million, Backrooms’s early grosses make it an immediate profit story for the studio and investors.
- Director Kane Parsons, who first made the Backrooms as a viral 2022 YouTube short based on an internet creepypasta, made his feature debut as A24’s youngest director on the project.
- Critics and audiences have praised the movie’s production design, sound and atmosphere, even as reviewers note the film’s deliberately ambiguous ending without settling the debate.
- Parsons has publicly signaled plans to expand the property across more films, short videos and a possible TV limited series, and the hit helps validate studios’ interest in creator‑driven online IP.