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GenreHorror, Sci-Fi & Mystery
RatedR
Runtime1 hr 50 mins
ReleasedMay 29, 2026
StreamingHBO Max
DirectorKane Parsons
StarringChiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass
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Backrooms (2026)
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| Backrooms' Details | |
| Genre | Horror, Sci-Fi & Mystery |
| Rated | R (language and some violent content/bloody images) |
| Released | 05/29/2026 (U.S.), premiere 05/07/2026 at the Aero Theatre, Santa Monica |
| Streaming | Digital from 07/14/2026. HBO Max from 09/25/2026. |
| Running Time | 1 hr 50 mins |
| Budget | $10 million (reported) |
| Box Office | $402.5 million worldwide. A24's highest-grossing film ever. |
| Based On | Kane Parsons' Backrooms YouTube series, from the 2019 creepypasta |
| Records | A24's biggest opening, $81.5 million domestic. Parsons, 20, became the youngest director to open at #1. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Backrooms' Interests | |
| General | Yellow wallpaper, damp carpet, humming fluorescent lights, no-clipping out of reality. |
| Music | Edo Van Breemen and Kane Parsons. Sounds like a vending machine having a nightmare. |
| Movies | Every VHS tape you found in a basement and should not have played. |
| Television | Kane Pixels on YouTube. Where it started. |
| Heroes | Whoever finds the exit. |
| Backrooms' Crew | |
| Director | Kane Parsons |
| Writer | Will Soodik (screenplay) |
| Producers | James Wan, Michael Clear, Roberto Patino, Shawn Levy, Dan Cohen, Dan Levine, Osgood Perkins, Chris Ferguson, Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, Kori Adelson |
| Cinematography | Jeremy Cox |
| Music | Edo Van Breemen, Kane Parsons |
| Edited By | Greg Ng |
| Production | A24, The North Road Company, 21 Laps Entertainment, Atomic Monster, Phobos, Oddfellows Pictures |
| Distributed By | A24 |
Whole movie looks like it was filmed in a basement that smells like wet carpet. Creepy to the bone from minute one. Some of the shots are legit nuts, I rewound a couple just to make sure I saw what I saw. Kept me tense the whole time, shoulders up by my ears waiting on a jump scare that honestly never really came. Problem is the story. Somewhere around the middle it kinda gave up and just started walking around the set. Cool house, nobody home. I’d tell a buddy to watch it for the vibes and then tell him to stop texting me asking what happened. $50 says you finish it and go “wait that’s it??”
What works: The look. Wet carpet yellow, endless empty rooms, and a few shots so strange you’ll rewind them.
What doesn’t: The story runs out of road around the middle, and the movie just wanders the set until it ends.
Who it’s for: Anyone who fell down the Backrooms rabbit hole online and wants to see it on a big screen.
Clark (Chiwetel Ejiofor) runs a furniture store in San Jose, and the basement has a door it should not have. Behind it: an endless maze of yellow, buzzing, empty office rooms, and something living in them. Clark and his employees go in to explore. His therapist, Dr. Mary Kline (Renate Reinsve), goes in after him. One hundred ten minutes, zero exits.
Anyone who knows where the exit is. Bring almond water.
| Chiwetel Ejiofor | Clark |
| Renate Reinsve | Dr. Mary Kline |
| Mark Duplass | Phil |
| Finn Bennett | Bobby Franklin |
| Lukita Maxwell | Kat Taylor |
| Avan Jogia | Naren Warne |
| Robert Bobroczkyi | Pirate Clark |
| Krista Kosonen | Nora Kline |
| Ember Ambrose | Young Mary |
| Katharine Isabelle | Cameo |
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- (cur | prev) 14:30, 15 October 2026 DataBot +120 Numbers refreshed: Worldwide box office $402.5M → $400.6M; Opening weekend $81.5M → $81.4M; Profit / loss (est.) +$186M → +$185.3M.
- (cur | prev) 12:40, 8 October 2026 DataBot +2,180 Cast and crew added. Details, interests, crew and performance charts filled in. Box office through 20 September 2026. Scores: RT critics 86%, Metacritic 76, CinemaScore B−.
- (cur | prev) 12:30, 8 October 2026 movie guru +1,040 Page created. movie guru score 5.9, Average. Cool house, nobody home.