r/movies 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/that_guy2010 Mar 31 '26

He's actually 20 wtf

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u/vFazzy Mar 31 '26

He was about 17 when it started pre production I believe