Finally, SOMETHING on A24’s “Backrooms”
As a bit of meta-commentary here, we first added the entry for Kane Parsons’ Backrooms to this site in June of 2023. Now, over three years after the film’s reveal, we finally have our first visual on what to expect. Though, for those familiar with the Backrooms as a concept, this plain poster is everything we’ve come to expect.
To anyone with better things to do, this poster seems like an MTA advertisement printed without text. To those in the know, however, this is the unmistakable yellowed hue of the walls of the original Backrooms image. All that’s missing is the hum of fluorescent lights above and the stink of old carpet. While Spy Kids 4D took the smell-o-vision with it, we may just yet have a first look at the former as soon as tomorrow.
“> tomorrow”, A24 captions the poster on their Twitter account, linking to an external webpage—backrooms.mov—where those linked will find an adhesive version of the poster for purchase. While the tweet’s context is left ambiguous, the release date of May 29th very heavily implies we will see at least our first teaser trailer for the film tomorrow, a little over three months ahead of release.
Parsons’ final upload to his YouTube channel was a little over a year ago, fittingly with another video in his Backrooms webseries. However, the series is unconfirmed to have any links to the A24 film. The two could be set in two different universes, or be two different accounts of the titular location. Only time can tell, and it won’t be long now until we see Kane Parsons’ new vision for the internet’s favorite liminal space.
Backrooms has many big names attached, with producers such as James Wan of Saw, director Shawn Levy, and Dan Levine of Arrival. In the acting department, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve will star in currently undisclosed roles. Ejiofor recently reprised his role as Mordo in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and Reinsve is currently up for an Oscar for her performance in Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value.
Kane Parsons’ Backrooms is in theaters May 29th, 2026.