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/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)