British YouTuber and filmmaker Kane Parsons is bringing Backrooms to life in the form of an A24 and Blumhouse horror movie. Starring several esteemed actors, the upcoming found-footage film is expected to reach the big screen this spring.
The concept for Backrooms stems from a 2019 4chan post, in which a user asked others to share images that felt “disquieting” to them. In response, one user shared a photo of a yellow-tinged room, which Backrooms sets the stage with.
“If you’re not careful and you noclip out of reality in the wrong areas, you’ll end up in the Backrooms, where it’s nothing but the stink of old moist carpet, the madness of mono-yellow, the endless background noise of fluorescent lights at maximum hum-buzz, and approximately six hundred million square miles of randomly segmented empty rooms to be trapped in,” the 4chan user wrote about the image at the time. “God save you if you hear something wandering around nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you.”
Hollywood Life has the latest details on A24’s upcoming movie, Backrooms, here.
What Is the Backrooms Movie About?
Backrooms follows a therapist who “ventures into an otherworldly dimension in search of her missing patient,” per the film’s logline.
When Does Backrooms Come Out? Release Date
A24 will release Backrooms on May 29, 2026.
How Can I Watch Backrooms?
Backrooms is scheduled to be released in theaters this spring.
Who Is in the Backrooms Movie Cast?
Chiwetel Ejiofor is leading the horror movie alongside Renate Reinsve. The rest of the cast features Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett, Lukita Maxwell and Avan Jogia.
Chiwetel has appeared in countless films, including Love Actually, Four Brothers, Children of Men, Endgame, 2012, Salt, The Martian, Doctor Strange and Venom: The Last Dance. As for Renate, she recently starred in the Academy Award-nominated film Sentimental Value and previously appeared in Presumed Innocent.
As for the rest of the cast, Mark has most recently starred in The Morning Show and has co-written and starred in the Creep film series and its TV series, The Creep Tapes. Finn stars in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, and co-star Lukita currently appears in Shrinking. Avan, of course, is best known for his teen sitcom role in Victorious and most recently starred in 56 Days.
