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Sarah El-Mahmoud

Backrooms Ending Explained: Who Is Phil And Does It Set Up A Franchise?

Renate Reinsve and Chiwetel Ejifor as Mary and Clark in the Backrooms.

Raise your hand if you just got out of Backrooms and simultaneously want to go down an internet rabbit hole about Kane Parsons’ horrific world based on an internet creepypasta and go outside to touch grass! I’m here and ready to break down what just happened during the ending of one of the most critically-acclaimed movies on the 2026 release schedule. Feel free to walk outside and read this… if you can find the door, that is. SPOILERS AHEAD.

Poor Mary! Renate Reinsve’s character goes after her patient Clark (Chiwetel Ejifor) to the backrooms and tries to help him out. What she finds when she goes through the invisible door he rambled about is a crazed man who would rather live in an unsettling place full of endless rooms than live among society.

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