Directed by Kane Parsons and starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Lukita Maxwell and Mark Duplass, Backrooms is the 2026 A24 horror film that grows out of Parsons' own viral YouTube series. A furniture store owner falls through a crack in his own wall into an endless maze of yellow rooms that get everything almost right, and never quite manage to be real. The deeper he goes, the harder it becomes to tell which world he actually belongs to.

In this review, Fraser shares why the film's central idea, that the Backrooms builds its rooms the way someone draws a dog they've never seen, completely rewired how he watched every frame after hearing it. He talks through the dining table scene where Chiwetel Ejiofor sells a man who has lost his grip on reality, and admits that spending two hours deep diving the original YouTube lore before watching may have cost him the sense of discovery the film was built to give.

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