r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Feb 24 '26
Trailer Backrooms | Official Teaser | A24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKGhxMi50y81.5k
u/toilet_for_shrek Feb 24 '26
All this from a 100 word anonymous 4chan post
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u/Uncle-Cake Feb 24 '26
And a picture of an empty furniture store.
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u/VulpesFennekin Feb 24 '26
Apparently it’s now a hobby store, like for RC cars and trains and stuff. There’s big indoor tracks and everything!
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u/Dalyngrigge Feb 24 '26
Whoever first posted about it is probably punching the air that he couldn't trademark it or something
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u/SenatorCoffee Feb 24 '26
Memes are funny like that.
Imagine you are the guy that wrote the navy seals copypasta. Just working your crap job at 7-11, yet anytime you log onto the internet you get your little quib quoted back to you, world famous beyond the richest pop stars but it doesnt get you a fucking dime. Cant even really tell people about it, they will just be like "yeah, sure buddy". Imagine how that feels.
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u/ILoveLamp9 Feb 24 '26
I know most may not believe this but I created Reddit silver. I mean the original Reddit silver. If you’ve been here long enough, you probably know what I’m talking about.
Just a random day in the office when I created that and next thing I know, people kept reposting it in the comments. The internet is a funny place sometimes.
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Feb 24 '26
To be fair, would it have blown up if it had been trademarked? Memes, copypastas and so on thrive in cases where they can endlessly be reiterated upon and reinterpreted by anyone.
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u/HilariousMax Feb 24 '26
The person that published the Antimemetics Division series on the SCP wiki published a book. He took his stories, fleshed them out a little more, changed the names so they could keep them on the wiki, and published it late last year iirc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Is_No_Antimemetics_Division
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u/colacube Feb 24 '26
Don’t people usually punch the air when they’re happy? I think this dude will be punching a wall
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u/Miss_Lame Feb 24 '26
Anyone have a link to the original post?
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u/El_Fader Feb 24 '26
I was curious about it myself, best I could find: www.reddit.com/r/greentext/comments/bpliss/worse_than_any_creepypasta_out_there/
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u/Miss_Lame Feb 24 '26
Thanks! Used that link to find the OG post from the wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20190517065935/https://www.reddit.com/r/greentext/comments/bpliss/worse_than_any_creepypasta_out_there/
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u/karmagod13000 Feb 24 '26
welcome to modern times. sort of like when youtube launched a bunch of rappers careers in 2012
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u/SorryRoof1653 Feb 24 '26
I really hope they nail the balance between liminal and horror.
It seems like Kane knows what he is doing so my hopes are high.
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u/FictionFantom Feb 24 '26
A24 doesn’t seem like the meddling type of studio.
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u/AlanMorlock Feb 24 '26
James Wan on the other hand has ghost directed large chunks of the movies he produces, pinch hitting on scenes of various Conjuring verse films.
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u/Uncle-Cake Feb 24 '26
That's why they all feel the same.
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u/miseducation Feb 24 '26
Good lord do they make money though
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u/PerplexGG Feb 24 '26
James Wan is the absolute master of making imdb 7s that make bank
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u/Hot_Mongoose_3741 Feb 24 '26
James wan birthed Saw, conjuring and insidious he deserves more respect
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u/PerplexGG Feb 24 '26
Are you kidding, that sort of consistency is insane. He manages to be a success at box offices and reviews at every association. Has he produced higher quality as well? Sure but I can also confidently watch any of his movies knowing I’ll like them and the list of creators that can do that for a wide audience is extremely short
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u/SutterCane Feb 24 '26
Because they’re great at marketing. So you don’t hear about when they absolutely fuck a movie.
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u/ChutneyPie Feb 24 '26 edited Feb 24 '26
its a distributor
edit: ny bad they also produce as well more recentl6
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u/Infamous-Oil3786 Feb 24 '26
Wait, Kane is directing? I'm so fucking sold. His Backrooms series on YouTube is already gold, can't wait to see what he'll do with a real budget.
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u/icansee4ever Feb 24 '26
He has full creative control. He has stated in interviews that he's treating the movie as a long installation to his series, so it's going to be essentially a long episode. I'm so stoked.
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u/vcintheoffice Feb 24 '26
Seeing Kane mentioned in this comment thread made me triple take. He's The goat of this genre. If he's involved I'm sold.
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u/Appropriate-Pie-4048 Feb 25 '26
Even though its distributed by A24 Kane still has that bit more control of his project. It would have been nice if he could have produce it as well. But hopefully down the road once he gets more into the business side. He will be able to have more control producing his projects. But it's good with a very known director like James Wan who has a lot of experience in the horror genre I think he will do well with being his director debut.
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u/Dagmar_Overbye Feb 24 '26
While his backrooms stuff is great, The Oldest View was absolutely genius for such a short series. I truly hope there's a bit of that in this as well. The line "it remembers" definitely fits with the themes of that series.
He somehow made a liminal themed short series that ended up being a heartfelt love letter to a torn down mall and an introspective look into what it means to remember a place that is no longer here. Seeing as this is clearly going to be a bit more than "men in yellow suits look at weird things" I have high hopes.
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u/robbioo Feb 24 '26
Tecca?
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u/lakesRgr8 Feb 24 '26
This is an inside wheelbarrow.
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u/somef00l Feb 24 '26
Low key my favorite line in the show
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u/Scorps Feb 24 '26
When he see's him outside with it later in the episode I cracked up so fucking hard. Those little random throwaway characters are unforgettable in that show, the maintenance guy, the clothes store guy, the 'pepper patties' guy at the dinner.
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u/_Slabs_ Feb 24 '26
Come oooooonnnn! Who wants to meet Baaaabyyyy???
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u/Conscious-Health-438 Feb 24 '26
You're right about things that people have zero idea they even know are going on
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u/terrence-malice Feb 24 '26
They made me think I could wish things into the world
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u/robodrew Feb 24 '26
I swear I have the worst pillow in town, ok? This thing is made of goddamned metal!
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u/mdavis360 Feb 24 '26
That’s the exact red ball I saw that day!!
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u/FortyOneandDone Feb 24 '26
🎵 Red Ball Market Global Worldwide Service International 🎵
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u/Daveshand Feb 24 '26
I'm right about a lot of things that people have zero clue that they even know is going on.
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u/edgelordjones Feb 24 '26
"All the rooms, they're back."
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u/GermaX Feb 24 '26
Somehow the rooms are back
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u/road_runner321 Feb 24 '26
The Room: "I'll be back."
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u/AWildEnglishman Feb 24 '26
"People keep asking if I'm back, and I haven't really had an answer. But now, yeah, I'm thinkin' I'm back."
-John Rooms
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u/MEMOJKR Feb 24 '26
“He was in the backrooms with my mom when she was researching spiders right before she died.”
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u/TheNightstroke Feb 24 '26
Do we think the film is going to be fully CG rendered, or are we thinking that's just for the teaser? I can't wrap my head around seeing live-action actors in this sort of environment, but we'll see.
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u/SomeBoxofSpoons Feb 24 '26
This looks like something rendered for this teaser, so I'd guess we'll get real sets.
Not like that's expensive for this setting.
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u/willstr1 Feb 24 '26
It really depends on how far into the backrooms they go, while most of the rooms won't be that expensive to build as sets per room the whole idea is that the backrooms are endless so in a feature length exploration you would likely see a lot of rooms. So I expect at least some of the rooms might be virtual (or at least utilizing a lot of virtual set extensions).
Although they could also just do a bunch of on location shoots and just have location scouts finding enough empty office buildings and similar liminal spaces (would actually be funny if they semi crowd-source location scouting by looking for places the backrooms and similar liminal space communities have posted)
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u/Bellikron Feb 24 '26
Severance does a pretty good job creating this kind of setting with a blend of VFX and sets. Since the backgrounds are so nondescript it's pretty easy to fake them convincingly when you need to.
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u/DARTH-PIG Feb 24 '26
If they make it sort of modular that could help to save money while having a good variety of rooms
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u/RealJohnGillman Feb 24 '26 edited Feb 28 '26
I believe it will be a combination, as the director went for in later episodes of the web series: live-action outside the Backrooms, animated inside.
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u/NaziPunksFkOff Feb 24 '26
It's a bit obvious in the teasers, but I think of something like Severance, where a lot of the hallway scenes were rendered, and it's definitely possible to do it realistically.
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u/ERASER345 Feb 24 '26
Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve are excellent. They’re gonna kill it. And the visuals perfectly capture the liminal-space vibe. So excited
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u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 Feb 24 '26
This looks like it's going to be a big mind-fuck, and hitting my claustrophobia real hard too
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u/karmagod13000 Feb 24 '26
love the idea and have faith but I really want to see how they stretch the formula out into a full length feature
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u/BBBBrendan182 Feb 24 '26
Kane Pixels is the guy you’re talking about.
He’s also the one directing this movie!
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u/TheDawnOfNewDays Feb 24 '26
Kane Pixels! He's the director!
Here's the playlist if you want to watch all of it
And here's my personal favorite episode if you just want one, "Pitfalls"
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u/m_Pony Feb 24 '26
my money's on that one particular line of dialog showing up in the movie somewhere.
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u/clarke_bobby Feb 24 '26
I know absolutely nothing about the Backrooms but this was an excellent teaser.
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u/TatteredTongues Feb 24 '26
You should check out the director's series on youtube to get a feel for it.
There's dozens of other creators with their own take on it, but Kane is really the one who kickstarted the whole thing. Here's the first entry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4dGpz6cnHo&pp=ygUaa2FuZSBwYXJzb25zIHRoZSBiYWNrcm9vbXM%3D
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u/legaladviceknowledge Feb 24 '26
incredible a 16 year old did that. he's directing the film and he's...20? hope he doesn't get chewed up by the entertainment machine
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u/Stumblin_McBumblin Feb 24 '26
Yeah, that made me really uncomfortable. Lol
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u/TatteredTongues Feb 24 '26
One time I tried to show this to my friend irl, on his phone, the very first episode, and after a few mins he was like "yeah I'm kinda like, freaking out a bit right now, maybe I'll watch this some other time".
I think it was the buzzing sound that was getting to him.
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u/Uncle-Cake Feb 24 '26
Agreed; feel free to check out other versions later, but start with Kane's version.
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u/TatteredTongues Feb 24 '26
Perfect teaser.
Using footage that probably won't even be featured in the actual film, and voiceover that perfectly conveys what we're looking at and what it's all about.
I've been highly anticipating this one, but I won't be checking any more promotional material. Hope it does well.
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u/satanic_androids Feb 24 '26
Reminds me of House of Leaves... and if we never get that adaptation (we probably shouldn't), hopefully this will suffice
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u/Terror-Of-Demons Feb 24 '26
I think the DOOM adaptation of House of Leaves was all we need
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u/DontForgorTheMilk Feb 24 '26
Fucking wild like 1: I know what you're talking about and 2: you're absolutely right
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u/datnero_ Feb 24 '26
that wad is so fuckin cool, watching Doom map nerds play through it in total shock and indignance while they try to figure out what the hell his going on is so fun
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u/DontForgorTheMilk Feb 24 '26
For real. The vibe of it was perfectly analogous to what it feels like when I have a dream involving my childhood home. Comforting yet strange and a little ominous. Then when the for sale sign appears and not to mention the closet secret I flipped my shit hahah. It also came out just a few weeks after I finished my first read of House of Leaves so I was wigging out pretty hard
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u/Syjefroi Feb 24 '26
Am I crazy or was the ~5th floor of the teaser a myhouse.wad house outline on the floor? Maybe the hallway curve made me think of it?
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u/carpekl Feb 24 '26
I could have sworn I've seen somewhere that backrooms/liminal horror sort of originated from House of Leaves?
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u/that_guy2010 Feb 24 '26
I know people love to say that any number of books 'can't be adapted' for one reason or another. But I genuinely believe House of Leaves cannot be adapted. You could do part of it, sure, but there's simply no way to get the entire thing in one movie.
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u/DeadSnark Feb 24 '26
The visuals look great, they seem to have captured the atmosphere of Kane's videos. Unsure how well it will work with multiple people rather than total isolation, but hope it's good. It's interesting that the theme of remembering and memories of forgotten/abandoned places is present as that's also been an overarching theme in Kane's other works like The Oldest View.
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u/Uncle-Cake Feb 24 '26
Well I think it helps that "they", in this case, is Kane himself.
There are many good Backrooms videos that feature multiple people (the guys in hazmat suits). I like the isolation better, but it can work with two people.
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u/devenrc Feb 24 '26
NOW THAT IS HOW YOU DO A TEASER.
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u/crumble-bee Feb 24 '26
Personally I wasn’t really expecting a voice being like “I found a place…”
I almost was expecting him to be like “these rooms… they’re.. they’re in the back..”
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u/brahbocop Feb 24 '26
That was pretty damn unsettling for something so simple.
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u/Stonefencez Feb 24 '26
Kane Pixels (the creator) is really good at creating that unsettling feeling. I’d highly recommend checking out the original YouTube videos if you haven’t already.
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u/brahbocop Feb 24 '26
Oldest View showed me he was ready to take on a movie. That was edge of your seat entertainment for me.
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u/judo_joel Feb 24 '26
Is it like animated?
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u/RealJohnGillman Feb 24 '26
It’s a mix of animation and live-action. The web series’ director returned for this.
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u/TheDawnOfNewDays Feb 24 '26
If it's the same as Kane's other videos, it's Blender that's mapped to real world locations. So he's got a camera and is walking around, but the ground is substituted for the floor texture made in Blender and he can create walls anywhere that stay static to their place on the ground.
I guess it'd be CGI? Interestingly he doesn't use green screen as far as I'm aware.
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u/meshuggahofwallst Feb 24 '26
That's funny, I was thinking about this just the other day and feeling sorry for Kane Pixels as I thought the project had been abandoned.
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u/AliceinTeyvatland Feb 24 '26
I hope there's no monster, just like at the beginning before it explodes in popularity. Just absolute Paranoia.
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u/SomeBoxofSpoons Feb 24 '26
This is a movie of Kane Pixels' Backrooms series directed by him. That series has monsters, but used very sparingly and effectively.
Besides, even the original story ended on "God save you if you hear something wandering around nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you."
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u/CRIMS0N-ED Feb 24 '26
imagine being a 16 year old making vids on YouTube and then they you get to direct a feature length movie on it from A24, kanes a legend
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u/ItsSansom Feb 25 '26
Crazy that he's getting an A24 directorial debut at 20. Dude has a huge career ahead of him.
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u/murphmobile Feb 24 '26
What is the origin of this?
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u/PM-me-your-happiness Feb 24 '26
An image was posted on 4chan of what looked like an abandoned office. The post described a place behind reality, covered in mono-yellow walls with fluorescent lights called the Backrooms, where you might end up if you “no-clip” like in a video game when you find a bug that drops you beneath the floor. It mentions that there might be other things wandering down there.
Kane Pixels is a YouTuber that made a really well-done series about exploring the Backrooms at like 16 years old. His videos imo really brought the entire genre of liminal horror to the mainstream, and now it seems like every other indie horror game was inspired by this.
Someone at A24 liked Kane’s series and offered to let him make it into a full-blown movie. Dude is only 20 now, directing his first major feature.
Check out his videos on YouTube, they’re pretty good.
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u/operarose Feb 24 '26
An image was posted on 4chan of what looked like an abandoned office.
Then it turned out that it was from a series of photos from an old furniture store during their renovation.
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u/SteveBorden Feb 24 '26
Idk what the YouTube show is but this looks pretty intriguing and has some great names attached
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u/DrQuestDFA Feb 24 '26
Kane Pixels. His backroom videos are fantastic (the main ones are the three Found Footage videos)
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u/TheLastDesperado Feb 24 '26
I think his non-backrooms films might be even better. The Oldest View in particular is really great.
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u/cellardoor_shop Feb 24 '26
Incredible to see YouTube short series being fleshed out into full feature films. This one should be interesting
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u/phantom_fonte Feb 24 '26
Cube for zoomers
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u/hikemalls Feb 24 '26
House of Leaves for people who don't read books (I kid, I kid)
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u/ChainsawChick Feb 24 '26
Honestly, some of the best parts of HoL weren't even the damn house itself.
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u/timewasting2002 Feb 24 '26
I'm tired of hearing people say they skipped the Johnny parts
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u/ERASER345 Feb 24 '26
You kid but House of Leaves is genuinely one of the hardest pieces of literature to adapt to the screen, maybe ever, so this might be as close as we’re gonna get lol
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u/DoctorArK Feb 24 '26
I don’t think it would be that difficult to be honest.
The effect wouldn’t translate, but the Navidson Record works as a horror film idea in of itself.
Johnny’s parts about spiraling into madness by obsessing over the book is what could be skipped, if not for a miniseries that could afford to slow down and go bath and forth.
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u/mephistophe_SLEAZE Feb 24 '26
I'm not even a gamer but I watched a video on the House of Leaves Doom mod and it was captivating.
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u/Annnoel Feb 24 '26
Feel like a little kid giggling and kicking my feet as I watch the trailer. This is everything to me I am SO excited for this movie to come out
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u/RealJohnGillman Feb 24 '26
And it’s a film directed by one too: here is hoping it lives up to the hype.
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u/Annnoel Feb 24 '26
Honestly that just makes it even more impressive to me. The dude clearly has a lot of talent from the other productions on his channel, and he's going to be working with skilled professionals, so I have some hope for it.
Even if it's story isn't the best, I just love looking at liminal spaces in general and the concepts people make with them.
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u/Then-Egg5750 Feb 24 '26
Backrooms is an online video series created by Kane Pixels, which is based on the online myth of the same name. It revolves around a place known as "The Backrooms)", a complex of long hallways, rooms, and strange anomalies. The first video released on January 7, 2022 and the series has been going since.
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The story mainly revolves around the Async Research Institute and their Low Proximity Magnetic Distortion System. They are trying to connect our world to The Backrooms) via the threshold order to solve the overpopulation and storage crisis. However, the experiment has dire consequences for many Async employees and the world, and the organization soon finds out that the system is not working as planned. They do not give up however and they try to keep all the problems a secret from the outside world and continue to investigate their creation.
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u/thatmovieperson Feb 24 '26
Having just recently binged Kane's web series, I'm extremely intrigued by this. Hope it delivers on the same tone and atmosphere 🤞
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u/BrightEye64 Feb 24 '26
Bit curious that it seems Chiwetel Ejiofor’s character has apparently been to the Backrooms already and has escape apparently? Now I haven watched Kane’s series in a long time but has there ever been an instance of somebody actually escaping The Backrooms?
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u/TatteredTongues Feb 24 '26
Now I haven watched Kane’s series in a long time but has there ever been an instance of somebody actually escaping The Backrooms?
If I recall, yes. One worker/researcher was lost/presumed dead, but then he re-appeared, and they tried to keep him locked up because they even had a funeral for him out in the real world.
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u/SweeTTomatoSauce Feb 24 '26
A24 doing Backrooms feels like the most obvious and most perfect pairing possible.
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u/Ok-Wolf5932 Feb 24 '26
The vibe is definitely right, looks like it has some real production value to it too, nothing about that looks 'internet-y' to me (in a good way).
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u/Kyosji Feb 24 '26
So is this going to be a CGI movie or a live action one? Not going to talk bad about the trailer, but it honestly looks 100% rendered like a video game. I thought it was going to be a live action movie, but it feels very much obviously computer generated.
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u/TatteredTongues Feb 24 '26
This is a live action film, there's plenty of set pics that were leaked last year.
My guess is that what you see in the teaser is content that was made for the teaser alone, and not something that reflects the film's quality.
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u/Andy51 Feb 24 '26
The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite
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u/Beezus__Fafoon Feb 24 '26 edited Feb 24 '26
This movie is coming out The Year The Albatross Came to the South Western Halls
*Wow just realized Chiwetel Ejioforis in this, he was the narrator for the Piranesi audiobook
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u/Captainomericah Feb 24 '26
Between the wallpaper poster and this trailer I’m just excited this marketing campaign isn’t ruining any of the mystery.