✅ It is, one could quip, a movie made of badly remembered horror tropes.
✅ The furniture store’s lived-in make-believe showroom provides the most unsettling half-reality to start with.
✅ It’s the backrooms of the mind where the horrors live, an infinite hellscape that is also a real space akin to Tarkovsky’s zone.
Exploring The Stanley Parable’s (back)rooms already freaked me out, and the movie’s terrific audiovisual design hits the spot.
Addendum
Patrick Klepek’s “My Nine-Year-Old’s First R-Rated Movie: Yes, I took her to see The Backrooms” over at Crossplay is not a review but the heartwarming and inspiring story you need.
Backrooms by Kane Parsons, 2026.
Watched at the Bambi theater on July 6, 2026, in its original language.