Get ready to enter the backrooms—from home.
A24’s highest-grossing movie of all time, Backrooms, is now available to buy on certain streaming platforms as of today, July 14.
For $19.99, you can rent the film or buy it for $24.99 on Prime Video, Fandango at Home and Apple TV. It’s not available to stream on any subscription-based platform yet, but when it does come to streaming, it’ll be on HBO Max thanks to an exclusive output deal.
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With an 87% on Rotten Tomatoes’ Tomatometer, Backrooms has hit the mark for an unsettling film about liminal spaces. Directed by 20-year-old Kane Parsons, it stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve and Mark Duplass, who discover that a strange doorway in the basement of a furniture showroom leads to an endless network of interconnected rooms. In these rooms, time bends, and there’s a sense that something is lying in wait. The film successfully transforms internet folklore (creepypasta) into a real-world nightmare.
Our film reviewer, Dan Jolin, said it’s like a “journey into the heart of the uncanny valley.” It’s working for it—the film has made over $350 million at the box office on a $10 million budget.
Parsons is the youngest director to debut a movie at the top of both the domestic and global box office, but he’s been creating Backrooms for years as a web series on YouTube. With such success and massive appeal, he told Variety that he’s not done with the story. Perhaps a sequel is in the works?
Watch the trailer below before you set foot in the backrooms.
