Backrooms

When furniture salesman Clark discovers a hidden portal in the basement of his store, he gets trapped in another reality, the so-called Backrooms. When his therapist tries to save him, she discovers a mysterious labyrinth of abandoned, constantly changing office spaces that seem to go on infinitely. As time fades, something inhuman appears to be lurking just out of sight. Specifically for Cinema ZED Leuven Vanaf Thursday 16/7 we are playing Backrooms: Everything Must Go Edition (the extended version of the film). This version contains 16 minutes of extra creepy footage after the credits. We will also continue playing the film in August. Commentaar In January 2022 Kane Parsons began at seventeen years of age uploading a video series, titled Backrooms, on his YouTube channel. The concept of Backrooms originated on internet forums, and is based on the aesthetics of the liminal space, an expansive, interdimensional series of empty rooms. The viral success of the series ensured that just a year later a film adaptation, directed by Parsons and starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve, was already announced. Parsons is thus the youngest director ever of an A24 feature film, with big names like James Wan (Saw) and Osgood Perkins (Longlegs) attached as producers.