“I feel like I’m exactly where I should be,” Clark says in a moment of revelation from ‘Backrooms.’ He wasn’t talking about a sense of permanence regarding the endless yellow corridors, but a glimpse of the future with its arrival on the Internet. Indeed, the liminal horror sensation is returning to the Internet where the saga began with Kane Parsons’ series of shorts.
It does so for select streaming platforms, not for it to appear freely on YouTube like those early episodes. Specifically it will arrive on HBO Max and Filmin, two places where we can enjoy the work in full again and in the formats we want. Mark your calendar for September 25, 2026, which is when the A24 hit will debut.
Everyone floats down here, Clark
‘Backrooms’ will soon leave cinemas, but not without taking one of the biggest successes in horror cinema of the last decade. Worldwide and in Spain, the feature film has swept the box office with scandalous numbers, and it has left no one indifferent. It is already the highest-grossing film in the entire history of A24, with nearly 400 million dollars earned worldwide.
Its success was such that the studio doubled down and released in cinemas an extended version of the film with fourteen more minutes of story that could be seen after the end credits, which helped a new uptick in its box office. One wonders whether the HBO and Filmin versions will include these extras, or if we will instead see them through other means such as additional content in a collector’s edition or YouTube. Or perhaps it will remain only as a memory for the lucky ones who returned to the cinemas to see the new footage.
What’s Waiting Behind the Scenes
Speaking of the film’s arrival on streaming platforms, this is a good moment as any to revisit the original Kane Parsons short series published on YouTube under the same name. They officially lack Spanish subtitles, but they offer a view of the dreaded backrooms that managed to capture the interest of millions of fans around the world. And, to make it more spectacular, those videos were made by Parsons when he was barely a teenager. A creative genius who already showed promise in 2022.
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