The Backrooms is an excellent Hitchcock like thriller, that also happens to be a horror movie. What makes this entire premise work is not the supernatural endless yellow tinted rooms, but the actual mazes each of the characters has created in the "real world" that define their pscye and lives.
Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor (Clark) & Actress Renate Reinsve (Mary), they both cary this movie emotionally, while grounding the audience in their realities.
Director Kane Parson, Production Designer Danny Vermette, and Director of Photography Jeremy Cox deserve great credit in setting the stage for the liminal spaces that define the Backrooms. Every set is just slightly off, building a subconscious sense of abrehension and paranoia before anything escalates.
This will be one of 2026's biggest success stories in cinemas.
