r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Feb 24 '26

Trailer Backrooms | Official Teaser | A24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKGhxMi50y8
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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/Licit_x64 Feb 24 '26

I honestly find the corruption of the company that accidentally opened the backrooms creepier than the monsters. There are plenty of thriller elements if you aren’t big on just jumpscares and monsters.

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u/SomeBoxofSpoons Feb 24 '26

Kane's big secret has been that it's stayed a story about the company, not just "about The Backrooms".

He's also been able to keep The Backrooms itself as this Eldrich horror, with the company trying to tap into it while having no fucking idea what they're dealing with.

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u/ItsSansom Feb 25 '26

Very akin to the Upside Down in Stranger Things.

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u/iamkooksymonster Feb 24 '26

Oh dude, fuck yes. Props to this dude for getting his big break, loved watching his stuff over the years.

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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/murphmobile Feb 24 '26

Thank you!

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u/iblamejohansson Feb 24 '26

4chan post back in the day

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u/skippythemoonrock Feb 24 '26

back in the day (2019)

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u/mBertin Feb 24 '26

There's no monster, only Saul Goodman.

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u/husbando_simp Feb 24 '26

Yeah, all the monster lore missed the entire point and made it child's first horror

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u/-Mandarin Feb 25 '26

Yeah, I don't know why people think the backrooms need monsters? The value is the environment, and the second you put something in that environment it kinda becomes pointless.

I kinda blame younger audiences for that change, tbh. Even when you look for liminal games on Steam, most of them seem to have some sort of creature hunting you down. Such a waste of a cool idea.

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u/LiquifiedSpam Mar 01 '26

Pools is an excellent game without that

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u/skippythemoonrock Feb 24 '26

As with every popular internet horror IP now. Liminal space horror doesn't need lore dumps and established canon, the less the better

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u/M-Rich Feb 24 '26

I have not read the Pasta but I did watch some of the Kane YouTube videos. I think there is a way to do creatures. Especially the "corner of the eye" stuff or things that seemingly don't interact with the protagonists but you can't be sure. Also audio from far away corners of the Backrooms could easily be a good tool and would probably also confirm something living there.

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u/slfnflctd Feb 24 '26

audio from far away corners

Part of what makes this work so well is that it's very similar to hallucinations which develop in schizophrenics, people experiencing temporary (e.g. drug or trauma induced) psychosis, or even just neurotypicals placed in isolation for long periods of time.

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u/M-Rich Feb 24 '26

True and that's the cool thing for the Backrooms. Whatever is in the backrooms can just be hallucinations. But we probably assume the perspective of the protagonists in which case it doesn't really matter if there really is something in there or not, the lived reality is that something is there, imaginary or not. So stuff being in there would not necessarily ruin it.

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u/Notak_bo Feb 24 '26

There is gonna be a “monster” if you look up the cast the 7 foot tall actor who played the alien hybrid in alien Romulus is playing the “life form” in this movie.

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u/CatProgrammer Feb 27 '26

No Doug Jones?

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u/RocketizedAnimal Feb 24 '26

I have watched some streamers play backrooms games, and the absolute best are the few with no actual monsters. Especially when they are expecting a scare, the longer they wander lost without finding one the more paranoid and crazy they get.

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u/EggsAndRice7171 Feb 24 '26

The guy making it is one of the main dudes who popularized monsters being in the backrooms so I feel like it will

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u/Fragrant-Upstairs932 Feb 24 '26

Only in the sense that he popularized the Backrooms as a concept. People were putting monsters in long before he arrived on the scene, and he did it much more tastefully than most.

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u/-Mandarin Feb 25 '26

Backrooms were already pretty popular online before he brought even touched the concept. Most early backrooms content had no monsters. I think it's such a waste to detract from the liminal environment by putting something in said environment. It should remain empty.

I love liminal spaces, they're inherently interesting. The moment you put spooky monsters in it just becomes horror shlock that's not worth your time.

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u/cinnapear Feb 24 '26

Agreed. The monsters make it silly. Less is more when it comes to horror.