'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut

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Post by mindcrime » Sun, May 31, 2026, 7:27 PM UTC

'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut
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Post by peteforde » Sun, May 31, 2026, 8:09 PM UTC

I'm a long-term "OG" Kane Pixels fan. I took a friend to see the opening night preview and we both loved it.

Anyone not familiar with Kane - who was 16 when he started making his "found footage" films in Blender - the guy is a truly brilliant mind. Listening to him talk... you can close your eyes and he speaks like someone middle aged. It's almost uncanny.

Anyhow, in addition to his genuinely excellent Backrooms videos, I highly recommend you turn off the lights and take in his The Oldest View series as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjY897CCu4g&list=PLVAh-MgDVq...

He painstakingly recreated a random demolished suburban Texas mall from archival footage. It's wild how good he is at this.

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Post by Modified3019 » Sun, May 31, 2026, 8:15 PM UTC

I really enjoyed it. I had no idea what a “backrooms movie” would end up being, but it was exactly what I could have hoped for having enjoyed his other work. Honestly creators from youtube putting out movies recently has probably been the most interested in going out to see something in years.

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Post by wewewedxfgdf » Sun, May 31, 2026, 8:29 PM UTC

I saw it. I'm not a young Internet kid. And I enjoyed it - it's quite clever, I never cringed at terrible dialogue, people behaved in ways that you would expect them to in strange circumstances. Worth seeing. Amazing it was made by a 20 year old.

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Post by idbnstra » Sun, May 31, 2026, 8:33 PM UTC

peteforde wrote: post #2

I'm a long-term "OG" Kane Pixels fan. I took a friend to see the opening night preview and we both loved it. Anyone not familiar with Kane - who was 16 when he started making his "found footage" films in Blender - the guy is a truly brilliant mind. Listening to him talk... you can close your eyes and he speaks like someone middle aged. It's almost uncanny. Anyhow, in addition to his genuinely excellent Backrooms vide…

I’m pretty sure someone else did a majority of the mall recreation, but i may be wrong

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Post by squidsoup » Sun, May 31, 2026, 8:50 PM UTC

Showing alongside Obsession, another horror film made by a YouTuber.

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Post by iluvcommunism » Sun, May 31, 2026, 8:59 PM UTC

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Post by portly » Sun, May 31, 2026, 9:06 PM UTC

Modified3019 wrote: post #3

I really enjoyed it. I had no idea what a “backrooms movie” would end up being, but it was exactly what I could have hoped for having enjoyed his other work. Honestly creators from youtube putting out movies recently has probably been the most interested in going out to see something in years.

I also thought obsession was decent. Spooked me a bit like horrors used to do when I was little.

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Post by samtheDamned » Sun, May 31, 2026, 9:12 PM UTC

peteforde wrote: post #2

I'm a long-term "OG" Kane Pixels fan. I took a friend to see the opening night preview and we both loved it. Anyone not familiar with Kane - who was 16 when he started making his "found footage" films in Blender - the guy is a truly brilliant mind. Listening to him talk... you can close your eyes and he speaks like someone middle aged. It's almost uncanny. Anyhow, in addition to his genuinely excellent Backrooms vide…

I wasn't aware he was behind the oldest view. That makes me more excited to see this movie because that was really good on what couldn't have been much of a budget to begin with.