Get ready to enter the backrooms—from home.
A24’s highest-grossing movie of all time, Backrooms, is on its way to HBO Max. You can stream it starting September 25.
You could already rent or buy it on certain streaming platforms—for $19.99 and $24.99, respectively, on Prime Video, Fandango at Home and Apple TV—but now you don't have to if you have HBO Max.
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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.
