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Apparently theres a hand in this shot in Backrooms behind the stop sign later in the movie with Mary
Idk how real this is but people are saying its kats hand and shit and Clark used it as a trail marker Jesus christ😭
A24 has officially announced the Backrooms Original Motion Picture Soundtrack on vinyl, now available for pre-order.
This is HUGE. It's the first time Kane Parsons' music has EVER seen a physical release, something fans have been begging for for years.
🎬 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.
Imagine being in high school and you get contacted by James fucking Wan because he loved your YouTube videos and wants to make a movie 😭 I couldn’t think of a cooler career beginning for a horror lover. I can’t wait to see what he does in the future.
I get why Kane and A24 went with the route they went for with Backrooms but I honestly think they could’ve also gotten away with a film that was just found footage and still have it work.
Found Footage #3 is 45 minutes and never stops being eerie and intriguing.
Zavala says he REGRETTED going on the BRAZIL trip after they literally did NOTHING together 😭💔
“I should’ve just stayed home.”
“OG cameraman I’m sorry I missed your graduation for this Mickey Mouse Brazil trip.”