The Great & Terrible OZ! 🇦🇺

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[The Great & Terrible OZ! 🇦🇺 @AussieGuy]

My latest drawing of everyone’s favourite comet zombie killers from Night of The Comet @cmsall @Kellimaroney

[The Great & Terrible OZ! 🇦🇺 @AussieGuy]

Finally got my herb garden

[The Great & Terrible OZ! 🇦🇺 @AussieGuy]

@angiebulkeley Beautiful couple❤️

[The Cinéprism @TheCineprism]

Backrooms, from a creepy 4chan post to an A24 feature film.

[A24 @A24]

It's everywhere. Backrooms is the #1 movie in the world.

[The Great & Terrible OZ! 🇦🇺 @AussieGuy]

@twisted_twins Love it!

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

‘BACKROOMS’ has become A24's highest grossing film of all time domestically in just 5 days.

Read our review: https://t.co/VbNDvFuAjZ

[Robb Allen @ItsRobbAllen]

Backrooms, but they have a food court

[Zero @zerowontmiss]

Truly wild how this one random commercial real estate photo from 2003 let to one of the highest grossing A24 movies of all time.

Amazing how a location can inspire an entire creative entity.

[Hollywood Horror Museum @horrormuseum]

Our honest thoughts about BACKROOMS

We loved it. Scary, bleak, disturbing, beautiful cinematography, real acting.

A lot of people are saying it makes no sense. Have people never seen a David Lynch film?

[Dr Sean Travers @seanjetravers]

The Backrooms is a Christmas movie

[The Cinéprism @TheCineprism]

🎬 Backrooms (2026)

One of the internet's greatest success stories.

In May 2019, an anonymous user on 4chan posted a grainy photo of an empty room. Sickly yellow walls, harsh fluorescent lighting, damp carpet, and an overwhelming sense that something was deeply wrong. Someone added a caption claiming that if you're not careful, you can "noclip out of reality" and end up trapped in an endless maze of identical rooms known as the Backrooms.

Nobody knew where the photo was taken. For five years, the image spread across forums, Reddit, YouTube, and social media, evolving from a creepy image into one of the internet's most fascinating pieces of modern folklore.

Then, in May 2024, four users on Discord finally traced the image using the Wayback Machine. The photograph originated from a 2002 renovation photo taken inside a former furniture store at 807 Oregon Street in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. But by then, the truth hardly mattered. The myth had already become bigger than its origin.

The Backrooms entered a completely new phase in January 2022 when a 16-year-old filmmaker named Kane Parsons uploaded a nine-minute short film called The Backrooms (Found Footage). Having taught himself Blender and VFX techniques, Parsons transformed a niche internet creepypasta into something cinematic and terrifyingly believable. The video exploded in popularity and quickly became one of the defining horror projects of YouTube's generation.

Hollywood took notice.

Just a few years later, A24 greenlit a feature film adaptation and handed the project to Parsons himself. Operating under the codename Effigy, the production built a massive 30,000-square-foot Backrooms maze in Vancouver. The crew reportedly tested dozens of shades of yellow to recreate the unsettling atmosphere that made the original image so iconic, while the scale of the set became a story in itself.

Born in 2005, the same year YouTube launched Kane Parsons became A24's youngest director ever. At only 20 years old, he achieved something almost unimaginable: turning an internet urban legend into a major theatrical event.

The story of Backrooms is remarkable not because of where it started, but because of what it became. An anonymous image posted on a forum evolved into a collaborative online myth, inspired millions of viewers, launched the career of a young filmmaker, and eventually became a global horror phenomenon.

Few pieces of internet culture have made the journey from obscure message board post to mainstream cinema. The Backrooms did.

All because of a single photograph and a simple idea that tapped into a universal fear, the feeling of being lost in a place that looks familiar, yet somehow feels completely wrong.

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 NOW: The area around ICE Newark is DEAD SILENT after NJSP FORCED rioters out of the area

Tens of THOUSANDS of dollars worth of supplies are just abandoned outside the facility.

It is genuinely mindblowing how much money is poured into riot supplies.

See for yourselves 👇🏻

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

‘BACKROOMS’ earned $38.4M in its domestic opening day.

• 4th biggest opening day of all time for a horror film

• 2nd biggest opening day of 2026 for any film

• It has already become the biggest opening of all time for an A24 film

[Sara Clements @mildredsfierce2]

If the academy was cool they’d nominate BACKROOMS for production design. It’s not often that the entire film’s setting is its own character that evokes such an uneasy feeling from its audience in its exploration.

[Claudia @ClaudiaToni]

Una donna riceve un avviso dalla telecamera di sicurezza interna mentre era fuori casa:
"Ecco cosa ho visto" 🤣🤣

[𝚂𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚝𝚘𝚌𝚘𝚕 @2ndaryProtocol]

Director Lamberto Bava’s ‘Demons’ (aka ‘Dance Of The Demons’ • ‘Demons Of Hell’ • ‘Dario Argento’s Demons’) starring Natasha Hovey and Urbano Barberini was unleashed on moviegoers in North America on this day forty years ago 📽️ 🧟‍♂️ ☠️

"𝙸 𝚍𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠 𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝚝𝚘 𝚎𝚡𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚒𝚗 𝚒𝚝, 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚒𝚝'𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚘𝚟𝚒𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝'𝚜 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚗!"

TRIVIA: Lamberto Bava cites this as his personal favorite of the films he has directed. (IMDB) 🖤

[Jack @jackunheard]

Tennis player Rafa Jodar SHOVES the ball girl out of the way.

He should never play another tennis match again in his life.

What a loser. https://t.co/h6a3RQ8H0a

[Aesthetics 𝕏 @aestheticsguyy]

Post a picture YOU took. Just a pic. No description

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

These are cat paw prints preserved in the 12th-century floor tiles at St Peter’s Church, Wormleighton, England.