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ABOUT
“BACKROOMS”
“Backrooms,” directed by Kane Parsons (also known as Kane Pixels on YouTube), a now 21-year-old follows who, as a teenager during the pandemic, spent some quarantine time at home building a viral YouTube found-footage series using 3D software. One of those series was Backrooms, and after catching the attention of production company A24, Kane Parsons was welcomed to bring his YouTube sensation to the big screen. <3
“Backrooms” takes place in the early ‘90s, and follows Clark (played by Chiwetel Ejiofor) a struggling furniture-store owner working through the fallout of his marriage, when he discovers that his store’s basement conceals a portal to an endless, extradimensional maze of empty rooms and hallways. His therapist Mary (played by Renate Reinsve) sets out to find him when he disappears, only to enter the unsettling realm of the Backrooms herself.
This colorway is a love letter to “Backrooms,” my favorite film of this year, as well as an ode to Kane Parsons’ original YouTube series, where the wallpaper is a more saturated and acidic mono-yellow/greenish-yellow.
“Imagine describing a dog to someone who’s never seen a dog before, and then asking them to draw it.”
WHAT
MAKES IT
LIMINAL?
This film is built directly on the “Backrooms” creepypasta, the original source of the “liminal space” term, which makes it one of the most representative films of a liminal space. 💛
The lore started with an anonymous 4chan post in 2019 that had a photo of a yellow wall-papered “back rooms” area of a furniture store, the caption read something like,
“If you're not careful and you noclip out of reality in the wrong areas, you'll end up in the Backrooms, where it's nothing but the stink of old moist carpet, the madness of mono-yellow, the endless background noise of fluorescent lights at maximum hum-buzz and approximately six hundred million square miles of randomly segmented empty rooms to be trapped in
God save you if you hear something wandering around nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you…”
Creepy!
The story is, is that when Kane Parsons saw this post, it fueled him to digitally create his own version of this so-called place. So during the pandemic, he filled his time creating a YouTube series he made on Blender (a free 3D graphics program). It really took off after he uploaded a short 'found footage' style video in early 2022, made to look like real camcorder footage of someone who'd stumbled into this endless, empty maze of rooms. It blew up online, and that one video eventually snowballed into an entire Backrooms universe, one that's now been turned into an A24 movie.
Basically, the Backrooms are depicted as a vast, seemingly endless extra-dimensional maze of empty rooms, reachable only by slipping outside the boundaries of ordinary reality. It’s one of the internet's most iconic creepypasta stories and clearest examples of the liminal space aesthetic. It transforms the familiar fear of empty, fluorescent-lit office corridors into a literal, physical dimension you can be trapped in. The scary part isn't necessarily the entities that live within the Backrooms, it's the place…the hallways that lead nowhere, and never end.
The original Backrooms photo that started it all 😯