The 2026 box office is on fire and up on 2025’s takings from this time last year. So what have the successes (and failures) told us?A few years ago, there seemed like a very real possibility that cinema and the big screen experience were irreparably damaged. There’s no two ways about it, the industry as […]
Star Wars craters as Backrooms and Obsession post stunning box office numbers
This weekend at the box-office Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu hasn’t been downed by The Galactic Empire or another Disney-owned IP, but by Gen Z filmgoers turning up in huge numbers to support two critically acclaimed horror films. The results are extraordinary. A24’s Backrooms took a whopping $81 million at North American ticket offices, while […]
Movie Review – Backrooms (2026)
Backrooms, 2026.Directed by Kane Parsons. Starring Renate Reinsve, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett, Lukita Maxwell, Avan Jogia, Robert Bobroczkyi, Ember Ambrose, Peter New, Katharine Isabelle, Philip Granger, Kelly Craig, and Krista Kosonen.SYNOPSIS:After a therapist’s patient disappears into a dimension beyond reality, she must venture into the unknown to save him.Backrooms creator and film director […]
A24 opens the door on the final Backrooms teaser trailer
A24 has dropped a final promo for Backrooms, their eagerly anticipated adaptation of the YouTube video series based on the internet creepypasta of the same name from creator and first time feature filmmaker Kane Parsons. Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor (The Life of Chuck) as a man who discovers a series of mysterious, never-ending rooms hidden behind […]
Get ready to enter the Backrooms with first teaser for A24 horror
A24 has debuted the first teaser trailer for Backrooms, the upcoming horror from writer-director and YouTuber Kane Parsons, a feature adaptation of his viral YouTube shorts based on the 4chan Creepypasta The Backrooms.The cast includes Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett, and Lukita Maxwell. Watch the teaser below…A strange doorway appears in the […]
