New Posters for Kane Parsons' 'Backrooms'

Agreed, makes the Backrooms look like an oppressive force. The one of the left gives the feeling that she’s being crushed, the right looks like he’s drowning and coming up to gasp for air

Both posters insinuate that the rooms are the focus/main character and the people are secondary/in the background.

The preview before Project Hail Mary was *chilling* and it was nothing more than a series of changing rooms.... I'm not a horror fan, I avoid horror, but I absolutely HAVE to see this

That's the backrooms. It's infinite space. But you can't get out. 

I would do terrible things to see a screen adaptation of the Left Right Game. ETA: If you love the Left Right Game and the Backrooms, I cannot recommend Drew Magary's "The Hike" enough to you. It's definitely more whimsical, but it has a very similar vibe and is one of my favorite books I've read in the last decade.

Poster gives me Severance vibe

Her body of work has been insane so far. So much so, that it’s giving me some extra faith in this.

I don’t think getting Renate for this is that crazy, she’s only been in one American film in her career so far. Not to mention she was cast before her Oscar nom

I f****** love Chiwetel Ejiofor. Can't wait for this

instant watch for my boy mark. Creep 1 & 2 + paddleton are some of my favorites

Nah, it is was a Hobbytown USA, they sell mostly RC and model stuff.

I don't think this is true? Edit: I was thinking OP was referring to Kane's original videos, not the Backrooms property itself. We're good!

And it turns out that at the end, the monster was a security guard and they were in a parking garage the whole time!!!

I've somehow never heard this, where is the lore located?

Yeah, as long as it's like his YT video but a bit more polished (due to bigger budget) we'll be good.

When this was announced, I went and watched his YouTube stuff and ended up watching the whole thing in one sitting and it blew my mind and gave me the heebie jeebies. I think with a24 behind him, it’s going to end up great

I didn't know much about Backrooms or Kane before today so I looked him up...he's 20 years old! So he made that first video when he was barely in high school. Truly incredible.

Gotta start somewhere

This, ladies and gentlemen, is how you become disappointed. Edit: For context since it seems to be deleted, it was a fan of the YouTube series saying it’s a given that it will be good. While saying they hate the “please be good” crowd.

The video he made in the mall with that statue chasing the kid around was low key terrifying

He's A24's youngest director ever. I think he's like 20? Even if this isn't good (I think it will be) it's cool to go from making viral YouTube videos to directing an art house psychological thriller. Would be worth seeing just to see what a new auteur can make with these resources.

This is how people sounded about Damien Chazelle's Babylon before we saw it

A24 is my favourite director

The director is the same guy who did the popular youtube videos about it, so I wouldn't expect him to stray away from those.

I mean you're kind of burying the lede here in that the guy who made the most influential backrooms media outside of the 4channer who shit posted them into existence, is also the guy making the movie.

Well considering he's a 4channer he's definitely slurring

It must be so weird to have created something that became famous on the internet but to have no way to prove that you did it. Like, whatever teenager wrote the first Q Anon post had a pretty large effect on national politics but nobody would believe them if they said it

Nobody believes me, nor should they, but I was the first person to popularized the LOLWUT pear. That's it. That's my claim to fame. Gasp at the enormity of it. And I do have a story about it when I get drunk.

Lol that's absurd. A 4channer leaving the basement?

You know that would make a great movie in and of itself. The Backrooms: Snubbed

The premise of this comment is shaky as it would require the 4chan poster to leave the safety of his basement.

I feel like it was also inspired by The Langoliers right? Some sort of dimension that’s left behind and there’s no people?

Is that the one the Doom wad is based off of?

My favourite book! You're speaking my language

He’s one of the people who helped popularised it and really expanded on ‘the lore’ with some pretty good videos on YouTube, but he’s not the creator. People who say that he is, just aren’t familiar with it.

Originally it started with a photo of a hobby story being renovated that got posted in discussions of how "liminal" spaces (transition spaces you are meant to move through but not stay in) are often cold and creepy. The photo got circulated around for a while and an Anonymous users wrote of it: >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 From that a whole lot of lore was created that circulated a while. Then, Ken Parsons at age 16 using only Blender and Adobe After Effects created a short film about The Backrooms using the same style as the photo but creating his own lore and it went very viral. It got way more attention than any other Backrooms content and from that he started making more and more shorts to expand the lore. So now he's got studio backing to make a feature film. So he's the "creator" in the sense that it's his world building and his direction and style that made The Backrooms get mainstream attention. But he did not come up with the original concept of The Backrooms, or the style of wallpaper that's strongly associated with it.

Backrooms is kinda like SCP, it was a group of random internet users doing kind of an informal group creative writing project. There's no project leader or hierarchy or anything like that, anyone on 4chan could post a picture of a creepy hallway and talk about the backrooms. In fact, as I remember it the whole start was just people posting images of spaces under fluorescent lights that didn't technically have anything wrong with them, they were just vaguely creepy or unsettling, and it was a random commenter who replied to one of those threads and gave a warning about how you can noclip through reality and land in the backrooms. Before that there were years of random posts of ugly empty offices and hallways that everyone just agreed were creepy, and after that people started referring to them as "the backrooms". Some years later the filmmaker created a short film they put on youtube about the backrooms, and then kept going with more and it achieved a lot of success. A group of production companies came together to create a feature film based off of his youtube series. So it's not that Kane Parsons created the concept of the backrooms. He created a youtube series set within the backrooms, and as each episode of the series has a single topic it's focused on they're named things like "Backrooms - First Contact" or "Backrooms - Report". People just started calling it Backrooms because that's the first word in the title.

The backrooms started with a thread on 4chan in 2019 where people were posting unsettling images. Someone posted the iconic yellow wallpaper room picture, and another anon posted a reply caption, describing it as an alternate dimension of endless rooms you can get stuck in. This idea really intrigued people, and an online community formed around it, with people expanding the lore, posting pictures of places they thought looked like could fit in the backrooms (especially with liminal spaces blowing up in popularity during early Covid), and writing their own stories set in the backrooms. r/backrooms was already pretty popular before Kane Pixels made his video. Kane Parsons, or his online username Kane Pixels, then uploaded his video called "Backrooms Found Footage" in early 2022, a blender animation showing his take on the backrooms. While originally supposed to be a one off video, the video went massively viral, so Kane made more backrooms videos. This series is what turned the backrooms from a niche internet creepypasta into an online cultural phenomenon. The A24 movie is set in the same world as his series.

It also looks like she takes more serious roles which gives us hope they're taking this film a lot more serious than just a youtube video

Same, difficult situation lol.

Same! Love Renate, but Cristin woulda definitely killed it, too

just watched Children of Men, he was chillingly good in that too. also shout out K**** Boots, he was perfect

If you want to see him shine as a villain be sure to watch Serenity. Even if you haven't seen Firefly, it holds up well as a standalone scifi film and he's fantastic in it. Ruthlessly dedicated to his cause, but not at all one dimensional either. It's a well written character that he was perfectly suited to play.

Another liminal space!

McConaughey for Dallas Buyers Club. Also Leo’s Wolf of Wall Street year. It was a tough category.

I love reading for pleasure and I read quickly and I’m STRUGGLING. You have to read three different narratives at once so it takes you three times as long to finish a page. That’s without all the weird messing with the form! There’s a point at which the analytic part is discussing interiority as an aesthetic choice and then you turn the page and there are boxes in the middle with the same text as the prior page, just reversed. They’re like windows that you’re looking through. The text of the book becomes the interior of the house. It’s stuff like that that gets me really excited and I want to keep going but GOD it’s a slog.

Yea I had to look up how to properly read it. And I probably spent more time looking for that to prep than actually reading it. Got like a quarter of the way into the book. Drags the f*** on

Let me teach you a secret spell to progress: Skip/lightly skim the Johnny Truant footnotes

I honestly don’t even know how you’d adapt the book. Much of the mindfuckery going on there is coming from how the book simply ignores all the rules a normal book follows, from footnotes to the formatting on later pages. I have no idea how anyone would transfer this to film.

I don't remember it ending. I mean the pages ran out, but I just flipped it over and just kept reading back the other way until I ran out of pages and did it all over again. I should have finished it by now, right? H̷è̷͍̭ḻ̸̛̱͇̻́̆̕p̶͔̯̱͔̗̮͈̞̈́́̊̄̏́̑́̾̾͘.̷̛̞̳͌̐̽̂͐̂͌̓͐̔̈̊̑͂̃͘͝͠

Damn, you're the only one with a flair around here.

That’s the only sounds we will hear in the backrooms

30min exposition, 15min rising conflict tracking where her therapy patient went, 45min back rooms where the claustrophobia of the environment alone will carry the vibe, then put in literally 1 of those entities and have her escape for the last 30min.

Some other things to note are that the concept of The Backrooms didn't truly reach "mainstream" until the series by Kane Pixels got popular, and that Kane was only a teenager when he started the series in 2022. He isn't even 21 yet, very impressive.