‘Backrooms’ Review: Kane Parsons’ Freaky Liminal Horror Is Both Mind-Bending and Brain-Freezing
Kane Parsons' film 'Backrooms' is a mind-bending horror adaptation of his popular YouTube series. The story follows Clark, a furniture salesman, as he navigates a surreal maze of rooms that reflect psychological fears. The film combines elements of found footage with a narrative that explores themes of isolation and personal trauma.
- ▪Kane Parsons is the youngest director commissioned by A24 at just 20 years old.
- ▪The film is based on a creepypasta from 4chan and follows explorers in a windowless office building.
- ▪Chiwetel Ejiofor plays the lead role of Clark, who is dealing with personal issues amid a surreal horror experience.
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Imagine if “The Blair Witch Project” had sent Heather, Josh, Mike, and their trembling camcorders shrieking through the consciousness-mutating Shimmer of Alex Garland’s “Annihilation” instead of the dark Maryland woods, and you’ll have some sense of the mind-bending but occasionally brain-freezing horror of Kane Parsons’ mesmerizing feature debut, “Backrooms.” Parsons adapts his own wildly popular 22-episode YouTube series, itself based on an internet creepypasta born from a place of true, unknowable evil: 4chan.
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