Backrooms
A lonely furniture seller finds a doorway to another dimension: an endless maze of yellow rooms where space follows its own logic and something dreadful may wait around any corner.
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About the film
You don't belong here
What it’s about
Clark, a furniture store owner, is reeling from his divorce and seeing a therapist. While sleeping at his shop, he discovers a portal in the basement to an infinite labyrinth of yellow rooms and corridors. Space behaves illogically there, and something dreadful may lurk around any corner.
What hooks you
Chiwetel Ejiofor stars as Clark, with Renate Reinsve as Mary. Director and screenwriter Kane Parsons drew inspiration from Valve's Portal games. The production built roughly 2,800 square metres of yellow corridors, so disorienting that crew members occasionally got lost in them.
Who it’s for
It is worth a look for anyone who enjoys slow-burning dread set in liminal spaces, where the horror comes from an environment that makes no sense and a monster that stays just out of sight.
- Country
- United States
- Year
- 2026
- Genre
- Horror
- Running time
- 1h 50min
- Age rating
- 18+
- MPAA
- R
- World premiere
- May 28, 2026
×12.6box office to budget
Ratings
MOVIE․ONE · 264 votesCreative team
All 10
Trivia
- While working on the project, director, screenwriter and composer Kane Parsons drew inspiration from the video game Portal by developer Valve.
- Many yellow corridors with a total area of about 2,800 square meters were built for the film, and from time to time crew members got lost in them.
- Director and screenwriter Kane Parsons said that the fly seen during the first appearance of the heroine played by Renate Reinsve in the behind-the-scenes of reality was real. It flew onto the set and could not be shooed away.
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Backrooms
2026
Backrooms
2026
Backrooms
2026