- Primary Subject: Backrooms
- Key Update: YouTube creator Kane Parsons became the youngest director to top the global box office as his A24 horror adaptation smashed records with a $118 million worldwide opening weekend.
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- Last Verified: June 2, 2026
- Quick Answer: The Backrooms movie shattered A24 records with a massive $118 million global debut, officially transitioning the viral YouTube creepypasta series into a massive Hollywood box office triumph.
Before Kane Parsons' Backrooms became a critically acclaimed box office hit, earning $118 million worldwide during its opening weekend, it began as a viral creepypasta web series on YouTube.
Consisting of 24 episodes, the series debuted in January 2022 and quickly amassed millions of views, earning widespread praise for its innovative found-footage horror and unsettling atmosphere. Its success eventually led to a feature-film adaptation, making Parsons the youngest director ever to top the box office.
With the film's success in introducing a new audience to the franchise, now is the perfect time to revisit its origins. Here are five terrifying Backrooms episodes you need to watch next after the film.
Reunion
Backrooms has two main narrative threads: standalone encounters with the mysterious dimension and an overarching story following the Async Research Institute's exploration of the Backrooms.
Reunion belongs to the latter, featuring a return to the iconic Room 14D, known for its square pits scattered across the floor.
In the episode, an Async team constructs new walkways to help other researchers cross Room 14D safely. Meanwhile, a separate team of three ventures into a connected area–a vast, dark chamber filled with towering columns.
What they don't realize is that they have just stumbled upon a new threat lurking within the Backrooms.
Pitfalls
Also part of the Async storyline, Pitfalls centers on The Complex, a portal leading into the Backrooms.
During a survey mission, a team discovers a room whose floor is covered with dark rectangular openings. When a camera operator accidentally falls into one of them, he is transported to a previously unexplored section of the Backrooms.
As he navigates the strange environment, he encounters distorted, displaced spaces and comes face-to-face with a pale, screaming entity that relentlessly pursues him. The creature has since become one of the most terrifying and memorable monsters in the series.
Found Footage #2
Found Footage #2 offers first-time viewers a basic introduction to what the Backrooms is. As one of the videos originally released in 2022, it may have had a limited production setup, but it already showcased what Kane Parsons could achieve as a director.
The episode follows a young woman who discovers a small portal to the Backrooms in her garage and is pulled inside while filming it.
Once there, she encounters a half-furnished, oddly elongated room that eventually leads to a vast open space, featuring one of the series’ most striking visuals and set pieces.
Found Footage #2 also includes the original jump scare with an entity chase, ending in a finale that leaves viewers questioning everything.
Found Footage #3
Kane Parsons released his longest Backrooms video, Found Footage #3, in 2024, marking his return to the creepypasta series after a hiatus in 2023.
The video introduces a man named Ravi, who falls into the Backrooms after investigating a strange noise coming from his basement.
He is then “clipped out” into a massive office building and apartment-like complex, further expanding the lore of the Backrooms as a distorted parallel version of real-world spaces such as suburbs and corporate offices.
These areas are populated not by traditional entities, but by eerie humanoid “copies.”
Found Footage #3 also features one of the most intense chase sequences in the series, ending in a dark and emotional finale that many viewers consider one of the most complete and satisfying conclusions so far.
The Backrooms (Found Footage)
Of course, nothing beats the original, and this list would not be complete without the very first Backrooms entry, The Backrooms (Found Footage).
This video alone turned the series into a global phenomenon and became a hot topic in online discussion threads when it was released in January 2022.
Despite its simple visuals, the original short successfully establishes the Backrooms lore with a meta twist: teenage filmmakers attempt to shoot their own video when the camera suddenly “clips out” and ends up inside the Backrooms, culminating in a climactic monster (entity) reveal.
From there, Backrooms evolved into a full series, eventually leading to a feature film and the possibility of future sequels.
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