Backrooms (2026)

Backrooms (2026)

“The more times it remembers something, the less it does.”

Laura’s Rating: 3.5/5 Stars

Plot: A depressed furniture store owner stumbles into a seemingly endless hidden space located in the basement of his store. 

Analysis: A never ending set of rooms. Liminal spaces. Uncanny valley. Realistic copies with incorrect details. However you want to describe the backrooms, they are certainly unnerving.

The movie uses many shooting techniques with a combo of found footage, wide angle lens, shaky POV shots, and standard filming. Each technique felt carefully selected for the specific scene and I loved the thoughtfulness behind that.

There’s a solid creepy soundtrack, as well as the unrelenting buzz of florescent lights. The tension is great and the anticipation of something happening is as scary as the small bit of action itself. The visuals are awesome but the let down for me was the actual plot and writing. The dialogue was nothing special and the plot was a bit loose.

Is the backrooms a real place? A horrifying look into the human psyche? Both? Backrooms is thought provoking without excessive explanation and an incredible debut for 20 year old director Kane Parsons.