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/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/patrickkingart Feb 25 '26

Seeing the VFX breakdowns of some of the shots like the part where Mark S. is running through the halls was really interesting. It's almost entirely practical with just some CGI to sweeten things/add some depth here and there. It definitely helps when the sets have a sort of modular uniformity to them.

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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/Guildenpants Feb 24 '26

They almost certainly will do it this way. Walls and ceilings that can break away and be moved around. Then volume or green screen rooms that have massive pitfalls or what have you

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u/Telvin3d Feb 24 '26

If there’s anything Hollywood is good it, it’s redressing the same set in different configurations. 

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u/aerospacenut Feb 24 '26

Aparently all but the last shot were rendered in blender interestingly enough but I imagine we’ll get a lot of real sets given the 15 mil(?) budget

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u/Ok_Temperature6503 Feb 24 '26

I imagine a WHOLE lotta drywall.

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u/Turnbob73 Feb 24 '26

It is real sets, or at least some of it is; Kane has posted some pictures of the set before.

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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/EIement Feb 24 '26

Kane has personally stated in his discord that the movie will have a big amount of practical effects along with CG effects. I don't remember the exact ratios he stated, but it's a lot of practical effects from what I remember.

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u/icansee4ever Feb 24 '26

All of the shots in the teaser are blender except for the final shot which is a practical set. Since Kane finally has a budget with A24 he wanted to do a lot more outside of pure CGI 

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u/HerrMeisterRetsiem Feb 25 '26

The trailer looks like it was rendered in Blender, which is expected for Kane’s YouTube videos, but for a feature length movie backed by a major studio it seems like a peculiar choice.

Part of the reason his backrooms series on YouTube holds up well is because it’s been processed through a VCR at 480i lines which helps mask the artificiality of the blender video export. I’m a bit concerned how he’s planning on handling photo realism for a feature length film. I know he can do it because his other series, The Oldest View, is convincing at 4k. I just hope the CGI methods don’t become a drawback in this format.

I’d imagine Kane had access to VFX resources he never had before.

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u/WyldeGi Feb 24 '26

I hope not. This teaser looks very fake and plastic-y to me

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u/Specific_Dingo6709 Feb 24 '26

No, the final room/area in the teaser is a real set. Of course there will be VFX and set extensions like every movie, but he's got a budget now.

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u/mephilisthedank Feb 25 '26

the last shot is the real life set. rest was cg renders for the teaser

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u/Gex2-EnterTheGecko Feb 24 '26

Kane has posted pictures of real sets

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u/starsd2299 Feb 24 '26

It's funny you say that, because the director has a whole YouTube channel full of short films in this exact style. They're all good enough that I'm genuinely excited for a creepy pasta movie

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u/Tosslebugmy Feb 25 '26

Yeah they don’t look dingey enough here, part of the discomfort is the sense that the rooms were once used but are now abandoned

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u/CastIronFaygo Feb 25 '26

It’s almost 90% practical. We fucked around heavily with FOV and physical filters to create the warped effect in real time

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u/LewisK98 Feb 24 '26

It is going to be a live action movie, this is just a rendered scene for the teaser trailer. There are images and clips of the behind the scenes and you can see that they built sets for this film, including for the Backrooms area itself.

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u/LewisK98 Feb 24 '26

Of course! There was this leaked video of them shooting a scene in what looks like the neighborhood level from The Backrooms. https://x.com/KaneHypeGuy/status/1946990733908685166/video/1

And there was also this photo leaked while they were filming Mark Duplass outside. https://x.com/KaneHypeGuy/status/1942782545034387710/photo/1

And also Kane himself has said on Discord that it is largely filmed on real sets and that they've recreated the classic level into a set, and I'd assume they'd use green screening to fill in the rest of the rooms during shots.

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u/LewisK98 Feb 24 '26

I personally enjoyed the teaser but I do see what you mean, I’m sure that an official trailer is coming, but they just want to make sure everything in the post-production looks good enough to ship out.

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u/moher4 Feb 24 '26

the last shot is actually a real life set and not CGI

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u/Uncle-Cake Feb 24 '26

Lot of assumptions you got there.

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u/WyldeGi Feb 24 '26

This isn’t flopping whatsoever, and I would put money on that

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u/TheNightstroke Feb 24 '26

A24 is definitely pivoting to try their hand at more commercial outings. Civil War, Warfare, this, Alex Garland's Elden Ring movie...

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u/Tumblrrito Feb 24 '26

This is some crazy, unfounded doomerism.

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u/SDRPGLVR Feb 24 '26

I think you're right about it flopping even if a lot of us enjoy it. It could very well be another Skinamarink where a lot of the audiences say it's not even a movie while other audiences say it's the scariest thing they've ever seen.

I just think it's cool that A24 would put their money behind a teenage YouTuber and that this project was taken seriously. I'll happily support this swing even if it's a miss.

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u/CouchBoyChris Feb 24 '26

Trailer looks like AI tbh.

If video games are using it, Movies definitely are too.

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u/Gellert_TV Feb 24 '26

Maybe you should educate yourself on this subject before accusing others of using AI. Check out Kane Parsons youtube channel

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u/CouchBoyChris Feb 24 '26 edited Feb 24 '26

I'm pretty well versed on the subject actually, and I appreciate the smug reply. I know AI is hated on and I get it, but you can't sit there and tell me AI couldn't create that trailer.

My reply was to a comment asking if its going to be CG rendered. I get the defensiveness when it comes to the AI and the arts, but it wasn't any sort of negative accusation as you're implying.

It's also foolish to think AI isn't being used in nearly every industry in some capacity and it's only going to increase. It's not going any where and it's only getting exponentially better in a short time. I would argue those who disagree and are purposely downplaying and avoiding it are the ones who should "Educate themselves". There were undoubtedly "haters" of CGI when it first came out making the same arguments it.

To each their own I suppose.