‘Backrooms’ Trailer Unleashes Liminal Horror With Kane Parsons’ Feature Debut

Chiwetel Ejiofor steps into the endless yellow maze in the first official trailer for Backrooms.

The official trailer for Backrooms is finally here, and if you’ve been tapped into the lore at all—whether through the Kane Pixels series or just falling down that liminal horror rabbit hole—you already know what this needs to deliver. And from the look of it, it’s not playing around.

Right away, the trailer drops Chiwetel Ejiofor into what feels like a routine space—an old department store, quiet, empty, almost too normal. Then it opens up. A doorway. A shift. And suddenly, we’re in it. The yellow walls. The endless corridors. That suffocating, artificial lighting that makes everything feel wrong even when nothing is happening.

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This is the Backrooms as people know it.

What stands out immediately is how the film balances scale. You can see the feature-film structure there—clean shots, controlled performances, a narrative that’s clearly going somewhere—but it doesn’t abandon what made Kane Parsons’ original work hit in the first place. There are flashes of that analog, VHS-style dread baked into the footage, giving it that unstable, found-footage edge that made the internet version so effective.

It doesn’t feel like a watered-down adaptation. It feels like an expansion.

Ejiofor anchors the trailer with a grounded presence, reacting to the environment in a way that keeps it from drifting too far into abstraction, while Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett, and Lukita Maxwell round out a cast that suggests this is aiming for something more layered than just wandering through endless rooms.

Directed by Kane Parsons and written by Will Soodik, Backrooms leans fully into its source, pulling directly from the mythology that built its audience while scaling it up for theaters. The concept remains simple and unsettling—a strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom—but what’s behind it is anything but.

Backrooms hits theaters May 29, 2026. Tickets are available now.

Watch the trailer and let us know—does this look like the Backrooms you’ve been waiting for?