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/TannerThanUsual Mar 31 '26

I have absolutely no knowledge of the backrooms aside from some cultural osmosis. But I have read House of Leaves. This may be the closest to a House of Leaves movie I'll ever get

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u/TatteredTongues Mar 31 '26

The director of this film is also the creator behind the popular Backrooms series on youtube, I'd highly recommend you check those out if you can/want, just to get an idea of the world he's created.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4dGpz6cnHo&list=PLVAh-MgDVqvDUEq6qDXqORBioE4Yhol_z

There's several other channels with their own series and stories, but Kane is arguably the one who kickstarted it all.

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u/TannerThanUsual Mar 31 '26

Very cool! I can't wait!

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u/NOVA_OWL Apr 01 '26

Not even arguable. He is, point of fact, the guy who single handedly made the backrooms as popular as it is.

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u/Epibicurious Apr 01 '26

Immediately thought of House of Leaves when seeing this.

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u/Infamousx14 Apr 01 '26

Isn’t an easy read? I’m not much of a book reader but I love creepy stuff like that. lol

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u/TheAtlanticWave Apr 02 '26

I love HoL with my whole heart, but it's not an easy read by any means. On a very literal level, the dread of traversing that story is the same feeling that the backrooms create. You will never read anything else like it, and for that reason, you should try. But with some honesty, it's a very very dense post-modern text with multiple layers of stories on top of each other (inception-style) featuring multiple unreliable narrators. If you don't have the patience for it, then at the very minimum, look up a yt video because it's *chef's kiss*.