‘Backrooms’ Review: Chiwetel Ejiofor And Renate Reinsve Open The Door To Terror In YouTuber Kane Parson’s Eerie Feature Debut

There has been a lot of buzz about A24’s latest entry into the cinematic horror sweepstakes where it seems every weekend a new YouTuber or previously unknown young filmmaker becomes the next big thing. Coming off self-financed YouTuber Mark Fischbach’s $50 million grossing early 2026 success, Iron Lung, and in the last couple of weeks an even bigger hit for Curry Barker in the $1 million dollar budgeted smash Obsession, we now have 20 year old wunderkind Kane Parsons who has taken his viral YouTube series of shorts, Backrooms and expanded the idea into his first feature film. Actually the kid was 17 when he embarked on this terrifying series that now has a following numbering in the millions and is leading to big Box Office expectations for A24’s launch this weekend.

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