Overview
- The film completed its world premiere in Los Angeles and began a late May 2026 theatrical rollout that included a Mexico release, drawing significant festival and press attention.
- Early critics have been broadly positive, reporting roughly a 90% Rotten Tomatoes score and praising the film’s sustained atmosphere over conventional jump scares.
- Backrooms adapts the online myth and Parsons’s viral YouTube series into a 1990-set horror film about a missing furniture-store owner and the therapist who enters an endless labyrinth to find him.
- Reviewers and production notes highlight heavy use of practical sets (reported at more than 30,000 square feet), focused sound design, Blender-assisted effects, and veteran producers such as James Wan and Osgood Perkins.
- The movie marks Kane Parsons’s feature debut at age 20 and is seen as a possible sign that internet-born creators and fan-originated IP can move into mainstream auteur horror, with the film rated for audiences 13 and older.