The first trailer for Blumhouse and A24's The Backrooms has landed on the 2026 movie schedule, and it’s doing something that most Hollywood adaptations of internet series struggle to pull off, especially when it comes to new horror movies. It actually feels like the thing people fell in love with in the first place.
Based on the viral YouTube series created by Kane Parsons, The Backrooms' first trailer leans heavily into the lo-fi, found-footage movie aesthetic that helped the original videos explode online in 2022. At the same time, this is clearly a larger production, backed by A24, with recognizable actors and a wider theatrical release on the way.
