Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction  •  2026  •  111 min  •  Adults (18+)

Backrooms (2026)

Backrooms poster

Backrooms (2026)


Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
Family Values: Leans Progressive

Viewer Rating
7.2

Overview

Backrooms adapts the viral internet creepypasta and its subsequent web series into a feature-length psychological horror film, following characters who slip through a strange doorway in a furniture showroom basement into an infinite maze of yellow, fluorescent-lit halls. Director Kane Parsons, who built an online following with his own Backrooms shorts, brings that liminal dread to a studio scale. The Neutral label reflects a near-total absence of ideological signals. The horror engine runs on fractured memory, isolation, and psychological unraveling rather than political or social commentary. The one mild lean comes from family dynamics framed around a failed marriage and maternal abuse, though not strongly enough to pull the film out of neutral territory.


Starring Cast

Chiwetel Ejiofor  •   Renate Reinsve  •   Mark Duplass


Where to watch

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Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Center

Primary

Political: Center
Confidence: Medium

The film’s core examination of infinite liminal spaces and individual psychological unraveling carries no ideological valence, anchoring the rating in neutral territory with no progressive or conservative signals in its problem-solution structure.

Diversity: Moderate
Confidence: Medium

Visible diversity appears in the principal cast of this liminal horror feature without evidence of deliberate recasting. The narrative centers dread through personal failure and dimensional unease rather than identity-based critique of traditional roles.

Secondary

Family Values: Leans Progressive
Confidence: Medium

A failed marriage and memories of maternal abuse frame the protagonists' isolation and self-destruction, with no countervailing traditional family bonds or values presented.

LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: Medium

No LGBTQ+ characters or themes register in the narrative.

Trans: N/A
Confidence: Medium

No transsexual characters or themes appear in this liminal psychological horror. The narrative centers dread on fractured memory and endless yellow halls without invoking gender identity.

Female Combat: N/R

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

Gender Swap: No
Confidence: Medium

No gender swaps occur. All named characters originate in the film or its creator's web series with no prior canonical gender in the anonymous creepypasta source.

Race Swap: No
Confidence: Medium

No race swaps occur. The film adapts an original 2019 internet creepypasta and subsequent web series that introduced newly created human characters with no prior canonical racial depictions in source material.


Viewer Rating Breakdown

7.2

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

IMDB logo
6.9
The Movie Database logo
7.0

Critic Ratings

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N/A
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7.7

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