A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom. When a therapist’s patient steps through it and vanishes, she is compelled to follow, entering a disorienting, unstable dimension in a desperate attempt to bring him back. Blurring the line between perception and nightmare, the film expands the unsettling mythology of the cult online series created by Kane Parsons, bringing its distinctive “liminal horror” aesthetic to the big screen in a feature-length adaptation.

Reviews

‘YouTuber Kane Parsons makes his feature directing debut with this icily brilliant and genuinely disturbing conceptual horror film based on his web series’
★★★★★
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

‘Backrooms could have taken any number of sabotaging turns, or undercut itself with effects (excess gore, say) that aren’t needed. Instead it builds with clear logic, solid acting, and doesn’t skimp on being suggestive.’
★★★★★
Tim Robey, The Telegraph