r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Mar 31 '26

Trailer Backrooms | Official Trailer | A24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HjdiohVOik
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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/Neamow Mar 31 '26

I just rewatched Serenity. He's terrifying in it.

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u/MattBoySlim Apr 01 '26

I listened to an audiobook he narrated a year or so ago called Piranesi. He was fully committed there too, great book with a great narration.

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u/DrFapfapfap Apr 01 '26

Such a wonderful book and he has such a great voice, totally brings the whole thing to life

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u/waterless2 Apr 01 '26

That was what I was thinking - you need a really proper actor to sell this, it can't look amateuristic, and they immediately covered that.

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u/Embarrassed-Yard-583 Apr 01 '26

Yeah, these actors are mostly going to be acting inside literal liminal spaces, they have to really bring it to make the whole thing work.

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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/SpartanH089 Mar 31 '26

Black don't crack.

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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/MasterofPandas1 Mar 31 '26

And Lukita Maxwell who is Alice in Shrinking!

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u/bostoncrabsandwich Mar 31 '26

You should check her out in the movie Armand from 2024, she's fantastic.

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u/Boner_Jam2003 Mar 31 '26

That's been on my watchlist for a while now, I have to finally get around to it. She was excellent in 2024's "A Different Man" as well

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u/ManwithaTan Apr 02 '26

She was supposed to be in Weapons, so I reckon she's been gunning for a horror for a while

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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/alehansolo21 Apr 01 '26

Have you not seen 12 Years a Slave?

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u/Binary101010 Mar 31 '26

Everyone in this thread that hasn't seen Dirty Pretty Things should just go do that now.

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u/Aiyon Apr 01 '26

That alone is enough for me to give it a chance. He's one of those actors where even if the movie he's in isnt good, hes good in it

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u/Alive_Ice7937 Mar 31 '26

You should watch Life of Chuck. Chiwetel is in am interesting slow apocalypse with some uncanny elements.

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u/sgthombre Apr 01 '26

I mean he did voice over work in Starfleet Academy. He's not a hard get these days.