{"id":466,"date":"2026-04-26T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/2026\/04\/26\/backrooms-how-kane-parsons-turned-youtube-project-into-lonely-a24-film-with-30k-square-foot-set\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T00:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T00:30:00","slug":"backrooms-how-kane-parsons-turned-youtube-project-into-lonely-a24-film-with-30k-square-foot-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/2026\/04\/26\/backrooms-how-kane-parsons-turned-youtube-project-into-lonely-a24-film-with-30k-square-foot-set\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Backrooms\u2019: How Kane Parsons Turned YouTube Project Into \u201cLonely\u201d A24 Film With 30K-Square-Foot Set"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\tFilmmaker Kane Parsons<\/a> is ready to take Backrooms<\/a><\/em> from YouTube<\/a> to the big screen. <\/p>\n

\tThe 20-year-old Parsons, who will become A24<\/a>\u2018s youngest feature director when the studio releases his horror movie in theaters on May 29, took the stage at CCXP Mexico<\/a> on Saturday to share insight into his process. Chiwetel Ejiofor<\/a>, Renate Reinsve<\/a>, Mark Duplass<\/a>, Finn Bennett and Lukita Maxwell star in the film that counts James Wan<\/a>, Shawn Levy<\/a> and Osgood Perkins as producers and has a script from Will Soodik. <\/p>\n

\tBackrooms<\/em> adapts the YouTube series that Parsons began uploading to YouTube as a teen in early 2022. Taking its origins from urban legend and various web posts, the videos centered on an infinite maze of rooms with humming fluorescent lights and yellow wallpaper. In the A24 film, Reinsve plays a therapist who must track down a missing patient in a bizarre dimension. \t<\/p>\n

\tParsons explained that the movie uses the existing series and lore as a jumping-off point to examine its characters. \u201cIt does take more of a specific approach, where you\u2019re seeing it through the lens of these specific characters \u2014 these individuals living these atomized, lonely lives,\u201d he said. \u201cIn the film, there is rarely a moment where there\u2019s more than one or two characters on screen at a given time. It\u2019s a pretty lonely film.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThe filmmaker recounted teaching himself to use the free, open-source 3D graphics software Blender to create the world of his YouTube videos, which he continued to utilize for the feature. He and the team, including cinematographer Jeremy Cox, were careful to maintain continuity with the web series. \t<\/p>\n

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