Backrooms (Kane Parsons, 2026)

[HardNight'sDay]

I decided to look up some Backrooms like films. I already found one called Backrooms Bigfoot released this year. No, I'm not kidding even if I tried.

[The Curious Sofa]

...and of course there is Amityville Backrooms.

We'll certainly see more horror movies based on creepypasta and other viral content. The next high profile adaptation along those lines will be Siren Head.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movie ... 236634292/

[colinr0380]

Was thinking about this earlier: Since Parsons/A24 can’t reasonably claim to own the concept or even the name of the Backrooms, couldn’t anyone capitalize on this film’s success by releasing their own Backrooms movie?

Probably, although there could probably be a convincing claim made that Parsons is a key element of the success of any such project, however much backed up by his studio, producers and Boards of Canada adding to the mix. That is partly why it was such a good move to get him doing the musical score as well, along with all of the allusions to elements in his series, because those are the aspects that are distinctly his. And whilst it may seem that Parsons was plucked at random off of YouTube, it strikes me that it would be hard to pick out another distinctive voice from the other Backrooms video makers that a film production company could partner up with to create a rival series, or something like that. And as the American Horror Stories episode and Amityville: Backrooms show, it maybe cannot be left entirely to Hollywood themselves to tackle the material either!

According to yesterday's Red Letter Media video, apparently Spielberg and Amblin have picked up the rights to Alex Kister's The Mandela Catalogue series (i.e. the one about evil alien dopplegangers that have existed since Biblical times. My grasp on the convoluted lore of that one is not too strong as yet), which makes sense since that is one of the other viral internet series with the most developed lore out there (and Mr Isiah "Wendigoon" has done interviews with Kister as well over the years, including a live stream with both Kister and Parsons together); and the next entry in the V/H/S anthology series is going to be SCP Foundation-themed, in official collaboration with that site. So both of those things would likely never have happened without the success of Backrooms.

(Although the biggie 'internet horror' series with masses of lore surrounding it that would be amazing to see adapted would be the Cloud Atlas-esque epic MotherHorseEyes series, though my dreams of Thomas Pynchon being brought in to adapt it for Paul Thomas Anderson, or Ari Aster in Beau Is Afraid mode, might be a little optimistic!)

[domino harvey]

There are a few ancient Reddit NoSleep/LetsNotMeet stories that could be fun on screen (the lamp story, the smiling man, the guy who went on a camping trip with a bunch of people and realized there was one extra person with them the whole time, the killer furby-like doll) but some of these corporate choices are bizarre

[Mr Sausage]

the guy who went on a camping trip with a bunch of people and realized there was one extra person with them the whole time

That one's been done in an army context in the intermittently good Korean horror film R-Point.

[domino harvey]

I’ll keep an eye out for it! I tried looking for this story’s post but couldn’t find it - I remember the guy taking a group picture and everyone looking at it after and being unable to see any extra person in the photo, even when counting out an extra person when going person to person with their finger on the photo. Something really unsettling about that detail for me!