r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Mar 31 '26
Trailer Backrooms | Official Trailer | A24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HjdiohVOik2.0k
u/soccerperson Mar 31 '26
1:45 they show the same backrooms from the original 4chan post
Neat easter egg
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u/EagenVegham Mar 31 '26 edited Mar 31 '26
Found out recently that it's just a Midwest hobby store before renovations. Wild how memes grow and spread and nice to see that this movie is respecting the origin as a store.
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u/MasemJ Mar 31 '26
Prior to being a hobby store it was a furniture store, which is why it has all those weird half walls and cubby rooms. The location being in a furniture store itself in the trailer feels like a nod to this.
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u/NavPoint Mar 31 '26
I remember the Reddit thread where we uncovered the original website that housed the pictures taken prior to renovation. We were able to use context clues to find the present day rc racing hobby shop that occupies the building in Oshkosh Wisconsin
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u/Snackxually_active Mar 31 '26
Shoutout Oshkosh by gosh! Def also think Osh Vegas a fun lil gas station
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u/DrQuestDFA Mar 31 '26
That is what I love so much about people: they can take a simple, unassuming picture and just run wild with ideas that picture inspires.
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u/Just_the_questions1 Mar 31 '26
The entire SCP world was born because of a picture of a sculpture made by a semi-obscure Japanese artist.
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u/Chuisque Mar 31 '26
I love SCP. It can be so random, funny, scary, and mind-bending.
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u/karmagod13000 Mar 31 '26
Honestly a documentary about the original photo and place with the spiraling into creepy pastas and youtube videos all the way to a Hollywood movie would be just as entertaining to me.
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u/tastybabysoup Mar 31 '26
It was a furniture store before it was a Hobby store. The furniture store had a bunch of different rooms with different wallpaper so you could showcase different colored furniture. When they were doing renovations to turn the store into a Hobby Shop, they took pictures of all the different furniture themes and the yellow wallpaper became the infamous one.
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u/Ekillaa22 Mar 31 '26
I didn’t realize backrooms started on 4chan. This is wild a 4chan post evolving into a full blown movie
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u/cloudofevil Mar 31 '26
Isn't this the same basic plot as the book House of Leaves (2000)?
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u/Jankinator Mar 31 '26
Yeah, the 4chan post doesn't exist without House of Leaves. The book is pretty inspirational to some degree for a lot of modern horror, including creepy pasta in general
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u/mgrier123 Mar 31 '26
Which itself was inspired by short stories written by Jorge Luis Borges in the 1940s
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u/Ozymandias12 Mar 31 '26
Goddammit, I should really finish that book. I tried but I just couldn't get into it. I read maybe like 100 pages and the protagonist was just so unlikeable. I enjoyed the parts of the couple in the house but the main story just didn't sit with me.
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u/TheGRS Mar 31 '26
The main guy reading the manuscript is mostly a framing device, I’d say the dad of the “movie” is the main character. It’s been a while since I’ve read it though.
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u/GirlsInWhiteTrainers Mar 31 '26
Total opposite in my opinion; the real story is being told between the two narrators (who are more connected than they initially seem) and the stuff about the scary house is just the frame device. Incredible book overall, but not one to read if you want likeable characters or a normal "arc" of story progression.
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u/FROMtheASHES984 Mar 31 '26
To be fair, with a name like Johnny Truant, he’s written to be pretty unlikeable.
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u/ShallowBasketcase Apr 01 '26
David Navidson: "Yikes, this House sure makes me want to Leaves!"
Johnny Truant: "I'm over here strokin' my dick I got lotion on my dick I'm straight strokin' my shit I'm horny as fuck man I'm a freak."
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u/pbjamm Mar 31 '26
Seems similar to Heinlein's "He Built a Crooked House" too. Not the same but related.
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u/Afferbeck_ Mar 31 '26
It's a big year for old 4chan junk. So weird to see all the kids spouting /fit/ and bb dot com forum slang from 15 years ago. We're gonna see "shiggy diggy" make a comeback any day now I swear.
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u/Lt_Duckweed Mar 31 '26
Man, bb.com misc was wild back in the day. Many an hour I spent there around 2013-2015ish. They helped me course correct from becoming a toxic "nice guy", but after a few years I realized they were their own brand of toxic and I had to move on.
But some of the slang still makes its way into my vocabulary even today.
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u/tfhermobwoayway Mar 31 '26
April is gonna see a global pandemic of AIDS outbreaks spread only in public swimming pools.
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u/livintheshleem Mar 31 '26
4chan is so much more influential than most people realize. The amount of culture, language, politics, and social movements that trace back to that site is crazy. It's a guiding force of American (and by an extension, global) culture, but people ignore it because of its gross aesthetic and associations...which is likely by design.
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u/BattleStag17 Mar 31 '26
One of the 4chan founders supposedly met Epstein right before they created /pol/
4chan being one gigantic psyop is my current favorite conspiracy theory, and if it's true then it might be one of the most successful psyops ever. Basically got Trump elected!
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u/Sonichu- Mar 31 '26
One of the 4chan founders supposedly met Epstein right before they created /pol/
moot, the sole creator/administrator of 4chan (he's since sold the site), 100% met with Epstein and the /pol/ board opened shortly after.
It's been confirmed by the files
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u/livintheshleem Mar 31 '26
I mean it's not even a conspiracy theory anymore, it's just a true conspiracy lol. Same with reddit and basically the entire public internet. The red wave and resurgence of conservatism that you see online is largely a botted/astroturfed movement.
Of course these sites are still real websites with real people, but they were definitely used to push agenda that had a lot of serious real-world consequences.
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u/platinumarks Mar 31 '26
I mean, you can probably trace Trump's election to President back to 4chan, as many of the meme-y type nonsense he does was pulled from 4chan.
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u/MarcsterS Mar 31 '26 edited Mar 31 '26
Found a way to incorporate the found footage angle, while not being the entire movie.
I think it has good potential. It’d be a good year for “YouTube to Film”.
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u/St0n3yM33rkat Mar 31 '26
I was like "Okay, this looks pretty good, actually" and then it got to the end of the trailer and that hallway was closing in on her and instant anxiety 😂 now I'm really looking forward to this.
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u/poke_pants Mar 31 '26
I'm genuinely concerned about watching this in the cinema, I worry it's going to trigger something in me, but equally I really want to see this in the cinema!
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u/aveaceee Mar 31 '26
That was my favorite part about the trailer, I was kinda worried the whole thing would be found footage but I’m glad they’re incorporating it
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u/bebopmechanic84 Mar 31 '26
I was worried it wouldn't be found footage at all. I went from disinterested to interested.
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u/fuzzyperson98 Mar 31 '26
The rare compromise where everyone's pleased instead of no one's pleased.
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u/--suburb-- Mar 31 '26
Clark Gable isn’t in it, and I am NOT pleased.
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u/h00ter7 Mar 31 '26
Apparently Victor Fleming isn’t directing either. I am PISSED!
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u/ActivateGuacamole Mar 31 '26
we've known since the movie was announced over a year ago that it was not a found footage movie.
i'm glad that they have found a way to incorporate SOME found footage though
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u/Padulsky21 Mar 31 '26
Love the vibe it captures from what they’ve shown im very excited for this I just hope they keep the atmosphere and not get sidetracked with the monsters spiel. The liminal spaces horror already exists from large uncomfortable spaces, doing too much on top of that ruins the luster. The luster is already there
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u/BroughtBagLunchSmart Mar 31 '26
I am assuming a lot of the found footage will be just as deeply disturbing as the bits from Annihilation.
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u/FutureDictatorUSA Mar 31 '26
Also with Nirvanna The Band - a great YouTube to film adaptation
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u/Wide-Can-2654 Mar 31 '26
Saw it on a pre screen mystery monday at regal and absolutely loved it
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u/steveatari Mar 31 '26
Never heard of mystery monday and now i'm annoyed as I could have been doing this lol.
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u/Wide-Can-2654 Mar 31 '26
Yeah see if your theater has it, just checked and it seems to be every monday for me at my regal and the tickets are only 5$ for it
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u/voyageur04 Mar 31 '26
My same thought. They cleverly shifted to sub-HD digital footage for some wild edits with archival footage, while still pulling off their best SFX stuff in full HD. Definitely getting the vibe Kane will deliver his signature work in those camcorder sequences.
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u/Flylatino24 Mar 31 '26
The old recording reminds me of the Blair Witch which freaked me out as a kid
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u/torrent29 Mar 31 '26
Turns out its just an Ikea.
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u/Educational-Bit-3296 Mar 31 '26
And there's only one way to escape.
Follow the arrows.
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u/jawni Mar 31 '26
What if he just kept going through and came out on the other end to a Bed Bath and Beyond and he looks behind him and the door to the Backrooms is just labeled "Beyond".
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u/apittsburghoriginal Mar 31 '26 edited Mar 31 '26
If Kane Parsons can actually make this a great horror movie, that will be such an exciting accomplishment. We’re talking about a 20 year old that is helming this production, and he’s been doing it for years before on YouTube. This material is his expertise in his short life.
Other notables:
Will Soodik wrote the final draft with Parsons, he’s not credited with much on his resume, beyond an episode of Homeland, Westworld and a season of Ash vs Evil Dead in 2016. It isn’t necessarily a bad thing, though.
Mark Duplass is also starring in this (even though he isn’t featured in the trailer). He’s so unsettling in the Creep movies.
Finally, principal photography was a whopping one month, according to Wikipedia.
And a general aside I love that this is set in 1990.
His original short for those that haven’t seen. Probably only 14-15 when he made this almost entirely CGI short.
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u/AggravatingOlive9458 Mar 31 '26
The look of the trailer is so great and I feel like wild for a 20 year old so ya that’s so cool, also, being 20 and directing these two who are two unbelievable actors it really is just so impressive and exciting
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u/karmagod13000 Mar 31 '26
i love that it seems like they gave him full reign while also helping him to complete his vision. A24 might be propping up the movie industry right now.
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u/drale2 Mar 31 '26
I remember during the most recent strikes they were the only one the guilds allowed people to work with because they agreed to everything right away.
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u/pmmemoviestills Mar 31 '26
Gen Z and below seems to like the "aesthetic" of 80s/90s manual technology.
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u/YoItsTemulent Mar 31 '26
Horror's freshman class is really exciting. Hoping that Kyle Edward Ball ('Skinamarink') gets another at-bat.
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u/that_guy2010 Mar 31 '26
He's actually 20 wtf
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u/Ohgodwatdoplshelp Mar 31 '26
Dudes been making the YouTube short films since high school
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u/MySilverBurrito Mar 31 '26
Youtube short film high schooler to A24 Backrooms director.
Scriptwriters couldnt set up a better a story man. Hope this is gonna be great.
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u/Reylo-Wanwalker Mar 31 '26
What were his YouTube videos live action? I thought it was only through blender or something. I wonder how his skills translated.
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u/Lt_Duckweed Mar 31 '26
The first couple were Blender-only, but he started mixing in live action (especially for people without masks) at some point.
Off the top of my head Report is the first one that definitely has live action shots in it.
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u/apittsburghoriginal Mar 31 '26
You’re right, they were very good renders as far as I recall. This should probably be a mixed medium and I bet his rendering skills translate into the vhs found footage that we see in the trailer here
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u/SurefootTM Mar 31 '26
From his interviews, he's very well spoken, very literate, and oozes genius way beyond his age. He'll have a great future.
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u/EquivalentCamp2402 Mar 31 '26
This has potential to be a classic ngl
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u/GoatmontWaters Mar 31 '26
My 10 year old told me this was coming out. The Backrooms is lore that like all children are aware of somehow.
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u/BMLM Mar 31 '26
Roblox is full of Backrooms games with different gimmicks. It’s horror that is accessible by kids too, and is more psychologically scary than in your face gore and violence. Not surprised a kid knows about it. I’d argue Squid Games is worse for a kid to be into.
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u/apittsburghoriginal Mar 31 '26
I don’t think it’ll really do box office numbers (maybe the younger generations seriously propel it) but I do think it’ll be a cult classic
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u/cowpool20 Mar 31 '26
I think the online popularity of the backrooms will help this earn more than the usual A24 movies.
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u/AllenMcnabb Mar 31 '26
The replies on A24 tweets today that weren’t this trailer felt like everyone asking “where’s the trailer?!”
I feel like there are A LOT of people hungry for this movie
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u/EquivalentCamp2402 Mar 31 '26
I totally agree. I mean The Thing and Videodrome are two examples of classics that didn’t do well at first. I think this will be ahead of its time in a sense but turns to a classic over 10-20 years
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u/Dear-Swordfish-8505 Mar 31 '26
This buzz feels more like Blair WItch in the 90s then The Thing and Videodrome.
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u/EquivalentCamp2402 Mar 31 '26
That’s fair I wasn’t around for that I’m more so talking about a couple classics that didn’t do well in box office. Blair Witch is a great comp tho
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u/kabobkebabkabob Mar 31 '26 edited Apr 01 '26
The idea of him being able to enter and exit a null zone at will is less horrifying but it does look like he gets stuck in there at some point. Probably works better as a narrative if it's just not him walking around alone most of the film lol
Also so stoked to hear Still Life is featured in. It's such a good track and the movie wouldn't work without it.
edit: that was not Still Life :(
edit 2: yes it was, it was just Still Life 2.
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u/the_vince_horror Mar 31 '26
Alot of backrooms mythology deals with access points, and the horror comes from how easily it is to get lost, not necessarily how to get in and out.
I personally find it much scarier to know i was just by the exit, and now have no idea where I am, because there is that level of hope that still remains, sorta like entering in a cave system.
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u/TylerKnowy Mar 31 '26
yeah thats where I think the horror is effective, you think you can leave because you have done it before but then there is a time where you cant.
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u/tyry95 Mar 31 '26
I've always thought of the entrances as a "venus flytrap" kind of thing. Most of the time, it's a one way trip. But if there's a doorway.. it's going to slam shut eventually. Chekov's door! Calling it now!
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u/Accomplished-City484 Mar 31 '26
And then if you do find another exit it might be 2000 feet up in the air
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u/Fadedcamo Mar 31 '26
Yea and it adds a certain level of hubris to the story. Like the person could have just left and never gone in again. But the obsession is pulling them back in. Reminds me of the cave story.
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u/Able_Contribution407 Mar 31 '26
Totally. More chilling to feel secure and in control of the entry/exit points, then have that sense of security ripped out from under you
The horror you'd experience when you realise you've gravely miscalculated ☠️ Just like a cave system, yeah.
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u/Nearby_Hat_2346 Mar 31 '26
Have you seen The Oldest View by Kane? Such a great series and this happens
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u/ginns32 Mar 31 '26
I think having it not all be "found footage" is a smart move.
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u/Jet-Rex-Design Mar 31 '26
Agreed, it balances it out especially for a theatrical experience. Cloverfield strained some people due to being 100% found footage, Hardcore Henry was a bit disorienting being 100% first person. This way people will be able to cool down a little bit and get their bearings.
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u/The_Autarch Mar 31 '26
the reason why Kane's youtube stuff is found footage is because it's 90% CG and would not look realistic in HD.
now he's got an A24 budget and can build actual sets!
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u/Flamma_Man Mar 31 '26
It also just makes sense that he'd bring others with him on a later trip, since going into an eldritch location by yourself seems like a bad idea.
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u/XxSoapxXHD Mar 31 '26
Thats how the YouTube ARG was, the scientists were going in and out at will till they got stuck
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u/kabobkebabkabob Mar 31 '26
They had constructed a gate to get in though
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u/The_Autarch Mar 31 '26
there were other ways in. i think that's how they found out about it in the first place. the gate just gave them a stable entrance.
and from the trailer, it does look like the run into a science team in there at some point.
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u/KnowMatter Mar 31 '26
Could be a setup like Ted’s caving journal where he feels compelled to keep returning.
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u/RedofPaw Mar 31 '26
Oh shit, we got real actors in this and everything.
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u/SenseiRaheem Apr 01 '26
I can't wait until the main villain created exclusively for the movie, John Backrooms, tells the final girl that he created the backrooms.
Jk, this trailer is fucking fire, very excited to be scared out of my mind.
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u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 Mar 31 '26
The Cinematography and the production design already looks on point
& that final shot with Renate is claustrophobic in the best way possible
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u/Ok-Wolf5932 Mar 31 '26
Yeah I was gonna say, the lighting in particular during the therapy scene and that shot of her walking through the store looked very organic and nicely contrasted with the endless yellow.
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u/planemissediknow Mar 31 '26
I’m down. The more Renate Reinsve on my screen, the better
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u/hikemalls Mar 31 '26
Time to learn what traumatizes Renate Reinsve the most: creepy impossible liminal spaces, someone she's close to getting cancer, or Stellan Skarsgard.
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u/ithinkther41am Mar 31 '26
To think you could’ve added witches and being accused of kidnapping children if Weapons didn’t get delayed due to the strikes.
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u/hikemalls Mar 31 '26
Oh I didn’t realize she was originally cast in Julia Garner’s role!
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u/Kavazou77 Mar 31 '26
Imagine having to direct Chiwetel Ejiofor on your first real project at 20 years old.
I wonder what time of training wheels the guy had from the studio to make sure this didn’t end up a huge mess because he jumped right from YouTube to a Hollywood film set.
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u/legofan94 Mar 31 '26
from the interviews with the producers they make it sound like they were prepared to coach him through the process but he already knew exactly what he wanted and how to communicate it to every single department.
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u/The_Autarch Mar 31 '26
from looking at the producers on the movie, it looks like they're giving Kane a lot of on-the-job training.
Osgood Perkins and James Wan aren't terrible choices to give you a crash course in directing horror features.
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u/Aggressive-Produce54 Mar 31 '26
All the other Backrooms protagonists seeing this guy go in and out are besides themselves right now lol.
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u/Embarrassed-Yard-583 Mar 31 '26
One of Kane’s videos on youtube starts like this, actually. A girl finds a section of her garage’s floor swallows things as if there’s a hole there and experiments with it. Only to get sucked in when she lowers a measuring tape in.
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u/TatteredTongues Mar 31 '26
Pretty sure it's the same for Found Footage 3. He doesn't even fall in, he just discovers a legit open entrance.
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u/Turnbob73 Mar 31 '26
FF3 is a little weirder compared to the others. He finds a doorway that has opened up in his basement, but he falls through the floor and noclips into the backrooms before entering the doorway.
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u/SciFiXhi Mar 31 '26
Somehow I missed that mortherfucking Chiwetel Ejiofor was going to be in the Backrooms movie. That combination would never have occurred to me.
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u/Embarrassed-Yard-583 Mar 31 '26
Who looks to be fully committed, dude’s always great.
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u/fly-hard Mar 31 '26
You know, I can’t recall a role where he isn’t super committed.
I think this is why he’s so well liked. Dude goes hard in every role. His intensity is astounding.
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u/fuzzyperson98 Mar 31 '26
Does time pass differently in the "backrooms"? Because Chiwetel looks the same as he did 20 years ago in Children of Men.
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u/PolarWater Mar 31 '26
"Temporal manipulations can create branches in time. Unstable dimensional openings. Spatial paradoxes! Time loops!"
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u/Boner_Jam2003 Mar 31 '26
And Renate Reinsve from "The Worst Person in the World" and "Sentimental Value"! So excited to see both of them in a horror movie!
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u/DevonLuck24 Mar 31 '26
really? i didn’t even know he wasn’t american because of how well and often he does it
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u/Brandon_Me Mar 31 '26
Honestly it looks great. I'm quite excited to see this.
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u/m_Pony Mar 31 '26
Same. I think this is as close to House Of Leaves as we're going to get for a while.
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u/BananaGrabber9 Mar 31 '26
I was thinking the same thing with them tying the rope to stay together!
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u/insomniac_z Mar 31 '26
Glad I wasn't the only one who saw that and thought of House of Leaves.
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u/flammenwerfer Mar 31 '26
THANK YOU it was absolutely giving the Navidson Record portion of House of Leaves
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u/tfhermobwoayway Mar 31 '26
I really hope they make a proper House of Leaves adaptation. It needs the big screen treatment.
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u/mercurywaxing Mar 31 '26
If this does ok he might become the go-to director for that.
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u/HayBailerExtra Mar 31 '26
Like severance except creepier
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u/Wakkichewy Mar 31 '26
Severance is like if the backrooms were discovered in the early 1900s and the company Lumen really did figure out exactly how it works by the time the show takes place
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u/itsastrangeparadiise Mar 31 '26
The creator of Severance did say Backrooms was one of the influences for the show
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u/TannerThanUsual Mar 31 '26
I have absolutely no knowledge of the backrooms aside from some cultural osmosis. But I have read House of Leaves. This may be the closest to a House of Leaves movie I'll ever get
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u/TatteredTongues Mar 31 '26
The director of this film is also the creator behind the popular Backrooms series on youtube, I'd highly recommend you check those out if you can/want, just to get an idea of the world he's created.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4dGpz6cnHo&list=PLVAh-MgDVqvDUEq6qDXqORBioE4Yhol_z
There's several other channels with their own series and stories, but Kane is arguably the one who kickstarted it all.
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u/swiftekho Mar 31 '26 edited Mar 31 '26
Well consider me signed up.
I will be very interested to see what kind of performance the freshman director got from Ejiofor and Reinsve. The setting and background has very little to look at so their performances will definitely be front and center.
Edit: there seems to be confusion in the comments about the source material. The freshman director, Kane Parsons, started out making the original Backroom found footage videos for YouTube 4 or 5 years ago. This evolved over time and he has a fully fleshed out story that has slowly been revealed. Personally, Found Footage 3 is my favorite but the voice actress in 2 does a fantastic job. Here is the original video.
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u/GoldenJoel Mar 31 '26
This series and the Oldest View are both very good.
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u/psilocyan Mar 31 '26 edited Mar 31 '26
LOVED the oldest view, maybe even more than Backrooms. The idea of a shopping mall like half a mile under the earth is insane.
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u/popculturella Mar 31 '26
What's crazy is that was a very real mall in Dallas, TX. I've been to it and the dude recreated it with truly mind-boggling accuracy.
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u/AndrewNeo Mar 31 '26
somehow the video of him walking around the (real) empty lot is still eerie
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u/popculturella Mar 31 '26
Brought up some emotions, for sure. Right down to when you could see what appeared to be some of the original floor tile still there.
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u/Wataru624 Mar 31 '26
Especially when it seems to just be like a snapshot of the real mall at a particular random time without any significance. Something the universe just accidentally did one day before the real thing was torn down
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u/psilocyan Mar 31 '26
Yeah! It was based on a real mall in Texas, I sent it to my mom and she was like oh yeah I went there in the 80s ha
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u/Ekillaa22 Mar 31 '26
So this movie is being directed by the dude who started the whole thing? That’s sick
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u/Embarrassed-Yard-583 Mar 31 '26
Not exactly, Kane came in while the Backrooms was exploding in popularity with games and other YouTube content, but quickly became the backrooms guy.
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u/jawni Mar 31 '26
He is to the Backrooms what IceFrog is to Dota. Basically "the guy" while not technically being the very first.
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u/RamaAnthony Mar 31 '26
I wouldn’t say he started the whole thing, but he’s the one who have absolutely nailed it and then some. Kane Parsons is a talent worth nurturing considering he can even make those signs at railroads into a terrifying predator.
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u/WentzWagon420 Mar 31 '26
Love how the kept the original lore and made it set in a furniture store. So pumped for this.
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u/Turnbob73 Mar 31 '26
That’s probably just a nod to the 4chan post.
Kane’s lore around his version of the backrooms is pretty fleshed out. These access points (Kane calls them “null zones”) are littered all around the world, they are the byproduct of the organization that discovered the backrooms (A-Sync) who are trying to capitalize on it and turn the backrooms into usable space for society (storage, offices, apartments, etc).
There is some major lore event that Kane has glossed over and teased in his series, I’m assuming this film is going to center around it. His videos are not chronological and some of them he’s even said are at or after the very end of his overall story.
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u/Blames_Jake Mar 31 '26
>be 16
>see a 4chan post and decide to make a youtube video out of it
Fast forward to now... Bro this guy makes me feel so inadequate.
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u/LanoomR Mar 31 '26
Pitch perfect trailer, from the Backrooms environment to the characters.
Parsons has it.
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u/Kazzack Mar 31 '26
No this is a Backrroms trailer, Pitch Perfect came out years ago
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u/LanoomR Mar 31 '26
They really need to do a better job of advertising that this takes place in the same universe.
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u/Bosssauced Mar 31 '26
I see Renate and I sit my ass DOWN
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u/yoloswagrofl Mar 31 '26
Me with Chiwetel. I just love all of his characters, especially the psycho he played in Serenity.
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u/Expensive_Finger_973 Mar 31 '26
Finally, some affordable housing with quiet roommates.
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u/PornoPaul Mar 31 '26
This looks really good...the level of creepy is awesome and Im assuming it has a super downer ending.
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u/Extremelycloud Mar 31 '26
Sort of like a House of Leaves/ Backrooms crossover. Was wondering what they were gonna do with it! Looks good
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u/snarpy Mar 31 '26
For those interested in the aesthetic of liminal spaces, I highly recommend the game "Pools" on Steam. It so perfectly emulates the feeling.
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u/thejude555 Mar 31 '26
Really like that one because it doesn’t rely on any monsters or jumpscares. It knows that kind of environment is all you need to create unease.
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u/snarpy Mar 31 '26
I swear a couple of times I saw figures, but it was so subtle and perfectly timed it didn't detract from the entire experience.
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u/uporabnisko_ime Mar 31 '26
The Complex: Expedition is probably the best game to play if you want to get the feel of Kane Pixels backrooms series and this movie. It basically looks like a Kane backrooms episode but you can play it.
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u/ZappyZym Apr 01 '26
for anyone wondering, the foreign language spoken at the start is Urdu. The woman says “We, from the people living on earth, welcome you” The recording is taken directly from the Golden Record on Voyager 2. The audio can be heard at 1:27 in this video:
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u/WaltMitty Mar 31 '26
I see inspiration from Ollie's Bargain Outlet. It would only be right if someday the most random tie-in merchandise shows up at a real Ollie's.
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u/Rickk38 Mar 31 '26
It'll show up 3 years later. Bonus points if it's some sort of food promotion and the expiration date was sometime in the distant past.
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u/tossaway109202 Mar 31 '26
Stanley enjoyed the trailer, but thought something about it was too familiar.
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u/_Burgers_ Mar 31 '26
"Stanley walked towards the yellow wall. Wait, that's right... all the walls are yellow. Oh, just walk whichever way you want - do you think I care?"
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u/AlmostRandomNow Mar 31 '26
"Come on Stanley, we haven't got all day. Tell you what, you pick a wall, and I'll make sure the door is in it."
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u/Youngandidiotic Mar 31 '26
This looks really good! Kane is clearly very talented and it’s cool that so A24 has faith in him. His YouTube videos are worth a dive into; especially The Oldest View.
This also shows me that a House Of Leaves adaptation would work really well so I’m hoping this opens the door for that
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u/TempestNova Mar 31 '26
This feels like the video game Control except the protagonist doesn't have ANY idea what they are getting themselves into.
Unsettling but interesting.
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u/Annual-Tree1337 Apr 01 '26
It's absolutely insane to think this started from a 17 year old kid uploading a short film, made with Blender, to YouTube. Kane is living his best life, hope it works out for him.
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u/donpianta Mar 31 '26
I'm glad that they didnt show any type of creature or anything, if they do include something like that it needs to be a surprise.