Everything must go.
Horror flick Backrooms, directed by Kane Parsons from his viral YouTube series of people lost in an unsettlingly empty yellow office space, is expected to be the highest ever opening for an A24 movie.
Update: a projected $80 million opening on a $10 million budget.
20-year-old director Kane Parsons and Chiwetel Ejiofor.
Based on the viral series of found-footage videos from director Kane Parsons, the film follows folks as they explore an unsettlingly yellow, empty and labyrinthine office space found behind the walls of a retail outlet. Does it house otherworldly beings?
Chiwetel Ejiofor stars as the man who disappears into this strange yellow dimension and Renate Reinsve co-stars as the therapist who ventures in after him to save her patient.
All these rooms … this place builds them.
Wait, say what?
It’s like a maze — it just goes on and on.
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The original YouTube series of “found footage” from Kane Parsons amassed almost 200 million views and the now 20-year-old Parsons is the youngest director to work with A24.
Backrooms:
Working title: Effigy
Vancouver filming dates: June 30 2025- August 8, 2025.
Director: Kane Parsons.
Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett, Lukita Maxwell, Avan Jogia.
Producers: Shawn Levy – 21 Laps Entertainment, Chernin Entertainment. A24 Films.
Filming in Vancouver:
Backrooms on location at the 2400 Motel on Kingsway in Vancouver.
Backrookms on location in a parking lot.
