Spookocalypse

A podcast where we discuss horror movies and dabble with all things spooky. Catch us every Saturday. On Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and wherever you listen.

[Evan Solo🎈 @evansolott]

May was one hell of a month for the genre

[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.

[Jason Santos @JasonSanto53823]

@ConnieJoJo2 @FrankKane11 @Bloodofkirby78 @KantPhalen @hellhounds777 @Erikyxzg @JohnHac65684837 @FilmPervert2

[✰ @popcomes]

What’s your favorite Scream film or season?

[Portal do Medo @portalmedoo]

Esses são os filmes de terror mais aclamado de 2026

[PEAK @Filmfanatics__]

The YouTube-to-horror pipeline is undefeated 😭

[Ghostface @GhostfaceTalks_]

my turn in the backrooms

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

New poster for ‘THE END OF OAK STREET’, starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor.

The film follows a family who discover that their neighborhood has been taken back in time to the prehistoric era.

[🕯️👻Jeanne Loves Horror👻🕯️ @1carolinagirl]

Frankenhooker
released 36 years ago today ~ June 1st 1990 🎬

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

New trailer for ‘THE END OF OAK STREET’, starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor.

The film follows a family who discover that their neighborhood has been taken back in time to the prehistoric era.

In theaters on August 14.

[The Retro Reminiscer @RetroReminiscer]

Obsession (2026)
Art by Michael Sapienza.

[Bloody Disgusting @BDisgusting]

EVIL DEAD WRATH has wrapped production.

From director Francis Galluppi.

In theaters April 7, 2028.

[House of Dracula (☥𝐃𝐁) @CountDraculaDB]

So fashionable.

[House of Dracula (☥𝐃𝐁) @CountDraculaDB]

Elvira's Movie Macabre...Bloopers.

How cool is this?!

[Adisman Trucker 🚚 @michaeladisa24]

Marvel said. Let’s give them the best speedster ever.😎

[Ken Barthelmey @KenBarthelmey]

Merry Christmas everyone! 🎄🎅🏻 Here is my Christmas painting for this year.

(Painted in Photoshop CS6 using a Wacom tablet.)

[Spike el Monstruo 🦇🇻🇪⛓️ @spikermonster]

MERRY CHRISTMAS HEEE HEEEE HEEEE HEEEE HEEEE 🎃

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

😂😂

[malik @immalkwalahi]

The Smiling Friends In Silent Hill 2 by eli_handle_bwav it’s so creative