Movie Review | 'Backrooms' goes from Internet meme to the big screen
June 16, 2026
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What evil lurks in the drabbest of interiors?
The meme-rooted Backrooms is the latest movie to pull its mounting horrors out of liminal spaces. Exit 8, released earlier this year, was set entirely in a subway corridor. In Backrooms, a struggling furniture salesperson discovers an underground labyrinth beneath his store, all lined with yellow, wallpapered walls and fluorescent lighting.
Where Backrooms came from is more interesting — and potentially meaningful — than the result. The movie, directed by 20-year-old YouTuber-turned-film-maker Kane Parsons, is a fitfully unsettling nightmare that never convincingly builds beyond its creepy, dated-decor premise.
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