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 $118 million global opening on a $10 million budget.
Then 19-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.
Cinematography: Jeremy Cox.
Production design: Danny Vermette.
Producers: Odd Fellow, Shawn Levy – 21 Laps Entertainment, Chernin Entertainment. A24 Films.
Vancouver Filming Locations:
Backrooms is a horror film where the real horror is the soul-crushing architecture — endless corporate office space with fluorescent lighting, empty malls, food courts, theaters and airport hotels.
Backrooms furniture showroom location — WFL Furniture Liquidators in Port Coquitlam. See Facebook page.
As Cap’n Clark’s Ottoman Empire.
And 30,000 square feet of the Backrooms on a soundstage
Plus Backrooms in a Vancouver suburb.
Backrookms on location in a parking lot.
Backrooms on location at the 2400 Motel on Kingsway in Vancouver (not bad architecture to me but there is a sameness).
Some fans chose to see Backrooms in real-life Backrooms — dead malls and dated theaters.