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May 20, 2025
7:43 PM
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In early 2022, YouTuber Kane Parsons, known online as Kane Pixels, released a short horror film titled The Backrooms (Found Footage). Presented as a VHS tape recorded by a filmmaker who accidentally enters the Backrooms in the 1990s and is pursued by a Backrooms Game monster, the video garnered significant attention, amassing over 66 million views as of 2025. The success of this video led to a series of short films, expanding the Backrooms universe and introducing elements like Async, a fictional research institute that discovers and studies the Backrooms. The series has collectively garnered over 188 million views and has been credited with bringing the Backrooms concept into the mainstream .
Building on this momentum, A24 announced in February 2023 that they are working on a film adaptation of the Backrooms based on Parsons' videos, with Parsons directing
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