10 Upcoming Horrors We Can't Believe Are Happening

5. Backrooms

Even though Creepypastas have a fervent fanbase, adapting these online myths for the big screen is anything but easy (as Slender Man proves). 

For this reason, the horror community was wary when it was announced that Backrooms was the latest internet folktale to be adapted into a full-length feature. Originating from a 4chan thread, this story fixates on a person who stumbles upon another dimension that's composed of endless empty rooms.

As of this moment, everything surrounding the Backrooms feature seems overwhelmingly positive. The project is directed by the creator of the Backrooms YouTube series, Kane Parsons, which received solid reviews. This adaptation has a tight but amazing cast, including Chiwetel Ejiofor, Mark Duplass, and Renate Reinsve. Ejiofor's character uses a camcorder to record his journey inside the warped reality, maintaining the found-footage style of Parsons' previous adaptation.

Above all else, Backrooms works as a concept, since it leans into disorientation and isolation rather than bombastic shock value.

If Backrooms delivers everything we hope, it could give Hollywood the incentive to adapt Creepypastas that focus on psychological dread instead of cheap scares.