Kit Parsons and A24 bring BackRooms to the big screen this May, inviting Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve into a found footage horror film unlike any other. Miles of beige corridors, featureless rooms linked with geometric precision that serve no purpose. Random objects, disembodied voices, and ancient radio broadcasts echo off these confined spaces, cranking up the paranoia.
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No plot, no preamble, just crystal clear sound design and a sense of disorientation. This rabbit hole invites audiences in but gives them no safety net. Kit Parsons and screenwriter Will Soodik tap into uncertainty and find terror hidden away in BackRooms. Exploring the mythology of this online phenomena and promising one the most original found footage films in recent years.
In a trailer which is most effective when doing nothing, Parsons turns his camera into an observer, a predator, and a documentarian. Capturing curiosity up close and slowly letting that evolve into fear. Baiting his audience, asking questions of them, and then inviting them to invest and take a leap of faith. BackRooms is out in May at which point all will be revealed.