This week we accidentally no-clip into Backrooms, the new A24 liminal nightmare from director Kane Parsons, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, and Mark Duplass. A strange doorway appears beneath a furniture showroom, and what starts as one man’s impossible discovery turns into a fluorescent-lit descent through spaces that feel like an abandoned office park mixed with a living nightmare. Is Backrooms worth the watch or do we really just want to wallpaper over this corner of our brain?
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RELEASE DETAILS
Title: Backrooms
Year: 2026
Director: Kane Parsons
Writer(s): Will Soodik
Top-Billed Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett, Lukita Maxwell
Running Time: 105 minutes
Country of Origin: United States
Official Release Date(s): May 29, 2026 — theatrical release
OTHER NOTABLE PROJECTS
Kane Parsons — The Backrooms YouTube series
This is the whole reason the film exists. Parsons’ web series gave him a recognizable horror grammar before he ever made a feature: found-footage framing, liminal spaces, analog unease, and worldbuilding that feels discovered rather than explained.
Will Soodik — Westworld, The Peripheral
Soodik’s background in puzzle-box sci-fi television makes sense here. Backrooms needs enough structure to sustain a movie, but not so much that the mystery gets flattened into lore homework.
Chiwetel Ejiofor — 12 Years a Slave, Doctor Strange, Children of Men
Ejiofor brings immediate emotional gravity to a premise that could otherwise feel purely conceptual. That matters because Backrooms needs a human anchor inside a world designed to erase humanity.
Renate Reinsve — The Worst Person in the World, Handling the Undead
Reinsve is especially interesting casting because she excels at interiority — characters thinking, doubting, unraveling. For a therapist entering an irrational space, that restraint can be more valuable than big horror theatrics.
Mark Duplass — Creep, The One I Love, The Morning Show
Duplass has a long history with intimate, unsettling stories where ordinary conversation curdles into danger. His presence also matters behind the scenes because he became one of Parsons’ most vocal public defenders during the film’s release week.
James Wan / Osgood Perkins / Shawn Levy — producers
That producer lineup is bizarre in the best way: mainstream horror engine, arthouse dread merchant, and blockbuster storyteller. It suggests A24 knew this property needed both internet weirdness and serious production scaffolding.
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