10 Horror Movies You Won't Believe Are Coming Out
4. The Backrooms
The beauty of the horror genre is that it provides a platform for lesser known up-and-coming artists to make their mark without the need for massive budgets.
And nobody in the genre has recently enjoyed a rise to fame quite like Kane Parsons, the 19-year-old creator of found footage web series Backrooms, which launched in 2022.
Parson's shorts are based loosely on The Backrooms legend which was first circulated on 4chan in 2019, depicting an extradimensional, seemingly never-ending labyrinth of empty rooms within which hidden horrors are contained.
Kane's jaw-droppingly photoreal VFX-driven shorts quickly went viral, and barely a year after he launched the first short, it was announced that he'd signed a deal with A24 to direct a feature-length adaptation, with James Wan and Shawn Levy set to produce.
For some creepy viral videos made by a teenager to snowball into a feature film produced by one of the most prestigious Hollywood studios operating today is quite the journey, and one nobody could've seen coming when the shorts first began releasing.
Though we've heard little in the way of concrete progress on the project over the last two years, why rush something that, if executed as well as Parsons' shorts, could deliver a much-needed shot in the arm to the found footage subgenre?