🎬 2026 Movie Review #20 | Backrooms (2026) 🎥
Review Backlog: I'm still here in Hua Hin on vacation and I watched some more things here but still have to catch up on making reviews on them as sitting in my room on my Laptop is not the thing I want to do the most here. I watched Backrooms, Disclosure Day, Obsession, Supergirl here in Bluport mall Cinema and also finished From Season 4 and watched the 5 Centimeter Per Second anime movie which I all plan to make reviews on in the coming weeks to catch up. Starting today with Backrooms.
Backrooms Internet Hype
When it comes down to the backrooms internet phenomenal, it was something that passed my feed multiple times before there was talk about the movie and it intrigued me but I never really looked into it deeper. That was until I saw that A24 was going to release a movie of it so I started looking into it and quickly got hooked.
Apparently it all started with a 4chan post where and image of an empty office/furniture store that thad yellow walls and carpet with light combined with a text how this was a scary place where you could noclip into like a video game glitch.
This was followed by more people controcting a story around this place and in particular 16-year old Kane Parsons who made the video Backrooms Found Footage which is a 9-minute short film.
It kind of blew up and it was followed by a lot more videos on the backrooms to the point where he managed to seal a Movie deal resulting in the Backrooms cinema release.
Backrooms (7.8/10)
The movie basically follows 2 people in a black guy who owns a furniture store and divorced his wife, and his psychiatrist who kind of deals woth her own trauma from the past. Generally I don't really like movies with too much past psychological drama characters and to be honest this was borderline in this regard but just not to the point where it overly annoyed me.
Basically, one night the guy discovers a gateway into the backrooms in his store and starts exploring it. He tells his psychiatrist about it and goes missing afterward which makes her go loof for him discovering he actually was telling the truth about the place he found. The trailer very much shows the entire setup of this.
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If anything, this is a very environmental oriented horror movie and it does this really well in every way. I absolutely love the time spend in the backrooms as it's just weird and creepy in so many ways and most of all an unique concept. I also love how the explain things and also the twists and turns that Kane Parsons gave to it around the ending even though I didn't fully understand most of it and needed to go watch some Youtube explained videos to better understand.
Conclusion
While the backrooms by no means is a perfect movie and almost annoyed me in the 'character trauma' aspect of it, I still hightly enjoyed the unique environmental horror aspect of it and after reading more about what actually unfolded it also grew a lot on me in the weeks after initially watching it. So still a very solid 7.8/10 as a fan of the Backrooms interney hype. I'm quite sure that they will make a sequal and I'm highly looking forward to that.
| # | 2026 Watched Movies | Score |
|---|---|---|
| #01 | The Ballad of Wallis Island | 7.4/10 |
| #02 | Sorry, Baby | 7.1/10 |
| #03 | The Long Walk | 6.9/10 |
| #04 | Sentimental Value | 6.5/10 |
| #05 | The Baltimorons | 7.0/10 |
| #06 | Bugonia | 7.3/10 |
| #07 | No Other Choice | 6.7/10 |
| #08 | Rental Family | 8.6/10 |
| #09 | Our Girls (Voor De Meisjes) | 7.9/10 |
| #10 | The Life Of Chuck | 8.3/10 |
| #11 | 28 Years Later | 7.0/10 |
| #12 | 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple | 7.0/10 |
| #13 | Exit 8 | 6.5/10 |
| #14 | Roofman | 7.5/10 |
| #15 | The Housemaid | 7.0/10 |
| #16 | Together | 6.4/10 |
| #17 | Project Hail Mary | 7.5/10 |
| #18 | Michael | 7.0/10 |
| #19 | Masters Of The Universe | 6.5/10 |
| #20 | Backrooms | 7.8/10 |
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