The Backrooms (upcoming film)

For the internet creepypasta, see The Backrooms.

The Backrooms
Directed by	Kane Parsons
Produced by	Peter Chernin Shawn Levy James Wan
Screenplay by	Roberto Patino
Production company	21 Laps Entertainment A24 Atomic Monster Chernin Entertainment
Distributed by	A24
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$3-15 million (estimated)

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The Backrooms is an upcoming American science fiction horror film directed by Kane Parsons. It is based on his YouTube web series under the same name, which itself is based on the creepypasta of the same name.

On February 8, 2023, A24 announced that they are working on a film adaptation of the Backrooms based on Parsons' videos, with Parsons directing. Roberto Patino is set to write the screenplay, while James Wan, Michael Clear from Atomic Monster, Shawn Levy, Dan Cohen, and Dan Levine of 21 Laps are set to produce. As of February 2024, no other updates regarding the development of the film have been officially released.

Background

Concept origin

Main article: The Backrooms

The concept of the Backrooms originated from a 4chan which requested users post "disquieting images that just feel 'off". One of the images posted in the thread was an image depicting a large open room featuring yellow wallpaper and fluorescent lighting. Under that caption, a user replied with the first description of the Backrooms. It stated,

If you're not careful and you noclip out of reality in the wrong areas, you'll end up in the Backrooms, where it's nothing but the stink of old moist carpet, the madness of mono-yellow, the endless background noise of fluorescent lights at maximum hum-buzz, and approximately six hundred million square miles of randomly segmented empty rooms to be trapped in God save you if you hear something wandering around nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you

— Anonymous, 4chan (May 13, 2019)

Youtube series

In January 2022, a short horror film titled The Backrooms (Found Footage) was uploaded to YouTube. Created by then-16-year-old Kane Parsons of Northern California, known online as Kane Pixels, it is presented as a VHS tape recorded by a filmmaker who accidentally enters the Backrooms in the 1990s and is pursued by a monster. Parsons used the software Blender and Adobe After Effects to create the environment of the Backrooms, and it took him a month to complete it. He described the Backrooms as a manifestation of a poorly remembered recollection of the late 90s and early 2000s.

Expanding his videos into a series of sixteen shorts, Parsons introduced plot aspects such as Async, a research institute that accidentally discovers the Backrooms in the 1980s and conducted research within it. The series has collectively garnered over 100 million views. It is also credited with lifting the Backrooms from obscurity into the mainstream internet and causing a surge in Backrooms content, particularly on YouTube. For his videos, Parsons received a Creator Honors at the 2022 Streamy Awards from The Game Theorists.

See also

• The Backrooms
• Analog horror
• List of creepypastas

References

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