'Backrooms' at The Nightlight

The new film that encapsulates a butterfly effect moment where one small share ended up creating an entire internet legend. At just 20 years old, Kane Parsons becomes the youngest director in A24’s history with ‘Backrooms.’
Coming to The Nightlight May 29.
“Kane Parsons’ www.facebook.com/hashtag/backrooms?__eep__=6&__cft__[0]=AZaEdBE-CSoa13r842YLABkgtlRZJEjDAW3VN0WRuyNpjSb5QCFOYSe1yNqj8xBRF3uym0tTJEc6xSe21xLOro0fVak9K5QVKXMUX1wSixg_vV2OFWR4XjeP6te10ffY3H6R3bYbkQjv3pCI2J9DnIoH&__tn__=q is a TRIP. A brilliant, frightening vision. Beautifully claustrophobic, pulse-pounding & freaky AF. Superb world building, edge-of-your-seat suspense & earned scares. Renate Reinsve & Chiwetel Ejiofor are terrific. Danny Vermette’s production design is a star” – Courtney Howard, AV Club
The Backrooms started as a viral internet legend on 4chan in 2019. A user shared the iconic photo of a yellowish, empty office space with buzzing fluorescent lights, claiming it showed a place you could “noclip” into from reality. That post didn’t actually originate the image itself. Reddit users later traced the original photo through the Wayback Machine to a 2003 site for a model car racing facility called Revolution Raceway in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The images showed cleaned and repainted rooms with low ceilings, fluorescent lighting, and minimal decoration, which perfectly matched the eerie, liminal aesthetic that became the Backrooms.
The concept quickly grew online, inspiring short films, games, and countless fan stories about endless, maze-like spaces filled with strange entities. Its combination of uncanny emptiness and mysterious scale captured the imagination of the internet, creating a modern digital myth.
A24 is now set to release a Backrooms movie, bringing the unsettling atmosphere of infinite hallways and hidden dangers to the big screen. The film aims to expand the viral legend into cinematic horror, keeping the sense of unease and claustrophobic dread that made the original concept so compelling.
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