Backrooms

Name: Backrooms
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller, Horror
Released: May 29, 2026
Duration: 110 min
Rating: 77

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A24 | Release Date: May 29, 2026 | R

Summary: A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Thriller, Horror

Rating: R

Runtime: 110 min

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The Playlist Rodrigo Perez

Jun 3, 2026

Backrooms could have easily been disposable internet-horror junk food—a feature-length extension of creepypasta aesthetics with nothing underneath. Instead, Parsons delivers something far more haunting: an affecting horror film about imprisonment, memory distortion, and the private hell of mistaking isolation for refuge. Read full review

Tara Brady

May 27, 2026

Ejiofor cleverly manifests a character caught between psychic dislocation and male privilege; Reinsve’s wounds are deeper but palpable beneath her collected facade. Mark Duplass deepens the mystery as a cryptic scientist. The bigger stars, however, are Danny Vermette’s production design and Parsons’s exquisite direction. Read full review

Matt Singer

May 27, 2026

Once you fall into this labyrinth, it’s very easy to get lost, and to lose touch with your true identity from before you crossed into its limitless spaces. Backrooms may be set in 1990, but it’s about the horror of now. Read full review

IndieWire Ryan Lattanzio

May 27, 2026

Backrooms is a movie more likely to blow young minds, but remember the first horror movie you saw that changed who you were? This movie will be that for a lot of people. Read full review

Josh Larsen

Jun 11, 2026

Parsons proves to be an expert manipulator of space with the camera. Read full review

Keith Phipps

May 28, 2026

Backrooms feints at explaining what’s happening and why, then backs away. It’s all the better for keeping it a mystery and letting its distorted vision of the recent past provide a dark reflection of our present. Read full review

The Times Kevin Maher

May 27, 2026

It's like watching fantastically dull scenarios from the 2007 first person video game Portal apparently a source of inspiration for Parsons. There are breaks for backstory — Clark had a volatile marriage; Mary's mother was sectioned — but these add little meaningful context or narrative grounding. Read full review

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