Backrooms (2026) Review: Kane Parsons Delivers One of the Year's Best Horror Films

About this episode

The episode reviews Kane Parsons' horror film 'Backrooms', highlighting its eerie atmosphere and psychological depth.

We saw Backrooms opening day and we have thoughts. Kane Parsons' A24 debut is slow burn psychological horror done right, eerie, atmospheric, and way more unsettling than you're probably expecting. We break it all down, lore and all.

People in this episode

Host: Grave Tone

Topics covered

• horror film
• psychological horror
• film review
• atmospheric horror
• slow burn

Keywords

• Backrooms
• Kane Parsons
• A24
• horror film review
• psychological horror
• slow burn
• atmospheric horror

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: A24

Books & works: Backrooms

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