YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE. 🟨🚪
It's Night 18 of The Geekz 31 Days of Horror, and tonight we're reviewing BACKROOMS (2026) — A24's feature-film adaptation of one of the internet's most famous horror concepts.
Directed by Kane Parsons, the creator whose Backrooms videos helped turn liminal horror into a massive online phenomenon, the movie begins when a mysterious doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom. What waits on the other side is a seemingly endless world of empty rooms, strange spaces, and the terrifying feeling that something may be watching.
Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve, Backrooms takes the unsettling atmosphere of the original online series and expands it into a full-length horror, mystery, and science-fiction experience.
But can something that worked so well as short-form internet horror actually work as a feature movie?
Join The Geekz as we break down the story, liminal spaces, creatures, scares, atmosphere, mystery, visual style, ending, and how well BACKROOMS (2026) captures what made the original concept so creepy.
🎃 31 Days of Horror – Night 18
🟨 Movie: Backrooms
📅 Released: 2026
🚪 Genre: Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Liminal Horror
We also discuss Kane Parsons' transition from YouTube creator to feature-film director, the evolution of internet and analog horror, and whether Backrooms proves that online horror concepts can become major theatrical franchises.
Let us know in the comments:
Did Backrooms actually scare you?
Did the movie capture the feeling of the original videos?
And do you want to see more internet horror adapted for the big screen?
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