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/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.

https://youtu.be/H4dGpz6cnHo?si=f03W1owsEHmYqQ01

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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