We’re really excited about the upcoming Backrooms movie, currently set for a 2026 release, even though we still don’t know too much about its development beyond the creative team involved.
20-year-old director Kane Parsons is helming one of the most anticipated analog-horror adaptations ever — has announced that work on the Director’s Cut is officially complete. That doesn’t mean the Final Cut is anywhere near done, but it’s another step toward that 2026 release window.
The Backrooms has always been something mundane and frightening at the same time, and that’s the magic of it. Honestly, I love the Backrooms so much that I’ve even fallen asleep to those endless looping YouTube videos of yellow hallways humming in the background. I know I’m not alone — a lot of us have had moments in life where a strange hallway or empty office building at night made us feel like we accidentally “noclipped” into level 0 ourselves.
If the movie captures that eerie mix of nostalgia, dread, and liminal weirdness, the concept alone is strong enough to make this a huge success. We’re hoping for a lot here.
In the meantime, I want to direct your attention to a TikTok creator named tater tot.
Whoever they are, they’ve been doing God’s work: creating Backrooms videos using AI, trapping all sorts of figures — especially Ronald Reagan — deep inside the maze. And quite frankly, a full movie of Ronald Reagan wandering the Backrooms, confused and doomed, would absolutely work for me.
2026 can’t come fast enough.
