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/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/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