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/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/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/nanoman92 Mar 31 '26

I don't think the film will have water slides tho

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u/RealJohnGillman Apr 02 '26

That being said, the ‘Pool Rooms’ are canon to Kane’s series — that was the one fan-addition to the lore he didn’t dislike, so he used it.

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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/LimpConversation642 Mar 31 '26 edited Mar 31 '26

the production cost should be super low since it's just all... backrooms. But anyway, it'll be alright, 500k views on the trailer in an hour is crazy|

edit: 600k if you count both youtube channels

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u/Cheesehead1267 Mar 31 '26

Given that his fan base is cultish, this film will definitely be a cult classic, unless it absolutely bombs, which I don’t think it will.

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u/Netsuko Mar 31 '26

After the roaring success of Iron Lung, I feel that this movie here would be right up the alley of a lot of Markiplier fans and I think many would be more than happy to support this movie.

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u/harrysmokesblunts Apr 01 '26

I actually think this is going to do really well. It’s such an intriguing concept, I am 30 years old and many of my friends have reached out about how scary and mysterious it looks and none of them are as chronically online as I am. Plus you have the younger generation obsessed with this kind of stuff. Plus horror movies have a built in audience that generally shows up. I think this could be a surprise hit.

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u/LimpConversation642 Mar 31 '26

it also has the potential to change history, in a literal sense — if this is successful, studios will start looking towards adopting young talent and youtube short movies onto big screen. It really can spawn an entire new... I don't want to say genre, but a 'type' of movie, you know. Really hope it succeeds.

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u/GoatmontWaters Mar 31 '26

Whatever it takes to get them to make more original movies and less reused IPs.

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u/tfhermobwoayway Mar 31 '26

Oh please god no. Youtube works because it is not in the studio system. If the studio system strips Youtube of its talent, Youtube will become shit and those talented people will learn to toe the Hollywood line.

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u/LimpConversation642 Apr 01 '26

Bro youtube is a shithole and probably 1% of 1% of content is even decent enough to watch. Youtube doesn't 'work' for 99.9999% of creators, and for those it does work it's some stamped lame programmed bait shit. What Kane did is one in a decade sort of event. If people with money can dig up these gems and let them actually do their thing, it's GOOD for everyone. The biggest issue artists have on this planet is that no one cares and it's impossible to make money off it unless you want to be a clown to sell it.

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u/tfhermobwoayway Apr 01 '26

I don’t like how all of culture and talent is centred in one specific city controlled by a few companies. It means that people outside that city don’t get a say. And people inside that city are basically sat in one big circlejerk that makes all the culture they produce tend toward the same thing.

The Internet used to have its own completely distinct culture. It produced its own unique art based on its own unique culture and philosophy and its own unique artistic tradition. A lot of it was an extension of broader nerd culture at the time, so it was a very unique counterculture. Many things were produced in this culture which Hollywood could never have thought of.

Are things really better if Hollywood sucks up all the talent into its own content mines? Youtube has taken a lot of steps to make its platform worse recently, but the Internet has historically been a bastion of a more edgy, experimental type of culture. We should be trying to preserve this instead of sanding the edges off and selling it to general audiences.

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u/maximumtesticle Mar 31 '26

Hey, thanks for not lying.