Backrooms (2026)
3.4 of 5 from 75 ratings
1h 45min
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- Synopsis:
San Jose, California, 1990. Simmering with repressed rage toward his ex-wife and the marriage that never worked, Clark (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a failed architect and owner of a struggling furniture store, is about to throw in the towel. After all, between his crushing sense of abandonment and a therapist who can't quite reach him, his world is already crumbling. If only he could fix those pesky electrical glitches in the basement. But life isn't through with Clark yet. When he stumbles into a glowing gap in the wall - -a subtle flaw in the fabric of perceived reality - the impossible takes shape. How do you explain to yourself, let alone to others, that everything you knew, felt, or believed dissolves into a monochromatic, musty-yellow nightmare? On the threshold of an eye-opening transition, consumed by the eerie vacancy of an encroaching liminal void, who can accept that there's something else beyond the drywall? - Actors:
- Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett, Lukita Maxwell, Avan Jogia, Robert Bobroczkyi, Ember Ambrose, Krista Kosonen, Philip Granger, Katharine Isabelle, Peter New, Sarah Hayward, Natalie Moon, Calix Fraser, Sawyer Fraser, Patrick Baynham, Rhiannon Roberts, Dana Mahmood, Matthew Patrick Savage
- Directors:
- Kane Parsons
- Producers:
- Kori Adelson, Michael Clear, Dan Cohen, Chris Ferguson, Peter Chernin, Dan Levine, Shawn Levy, Roberto Patino, Oz Perkins, Jenno Topping, James Wan
- Writers:
- Will Soodik, Kane Parsons
- Aka:
- Backrooms. Bez wyjścia
- Genres:
- Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Thrillers
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Reviews (1) of Backrooms
Turning the Mind Into Architecture - Backrooms review by griggs
Some films feel less like stories and more like places you’ve accidentally wandered into. Backrooms reminded me of those dreams where I find a hidden staircase in my house, a cellar that shouldn’t exist, or a door leading to rooms I’ve somehow never noticed before. Familiar, but wrong.
Its best idea is the difference between being alone and being lonely. I’ve felt more isolated in a packed crowd than I ever have spending days by myself, and the film gets that odd emotional geography. It also works as a story about being trapped by memory. As memories fade, they lose shape, detail and meaning.
That is where the design really clicks. Endless corridors, dead offices and half-remembered rooms turn the mind into architecture. The sets are superb; I did wonder whether the crew got lost making it. Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve are excellent too, stopping the film from disappearing into its own wallpaper.
Rooted in analog horror, found footage and internet folklore, Backrooms creates a space worth getting lost in. The problem is that it eventually loses definition as well. A cleaner way out would have helped.
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