Overview
- The horror film adapts the Backrooms internet myth about a hidden door that leads to endless, liminal yellow rooms and follows Clark, a furniture‑store owner, as he and his therapist confront the labyrinth.
- Director Kane Parsons, who first made a Backrooms webseries on YouTube as a teenager, directed the studio feature as his debut and kept creative control of the concept.
- Produced for about $10 million, the movie has earned roughly $250–262 million worldwide and is reported to be the most commercially successful release in A24’s history.
- Critics and viewers praise the film’s slow‑burn atmosphere, visual design and strong lead performances from Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve while the director uses occasional found‑footage tricks rather than constant jump scares.
- Reception is not unanimous: aggregators record broadly positive scores (Metacritic ~77/100, Rotten Tomatoes ~88%) even as some reviewers strongly criticize the film, and distributors are testing the story’s franchise potential as international rollouts continue, including a German release around June 18.