{"id":43055,"date":"2026-10-23T07:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T11:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=43055"},"modified":"2026-10-22T13:11:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T17:11:16","slug":"backrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=43055","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Backrooms&#8221; (2026) directed by Kane Parsons, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve and Mark Duplass \/ Z-Views"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z102326review_backrooms.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"367\" height=\"544\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Backrooms <\/i>(2026)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Kane Parsons<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: \u00a0<strong>Will Soodik; <\/strong>based on <em>Backrooms<\/em> by <strong>Kane Parsons<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars:\u00a0 <strong>Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett <\/strong>and <strong>Lukita Maxwell<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>See how far it goes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Clark wanted to be an architect.\u00a0 Instead he owns a struggling furniture superstore.\u00a0 He&#8217;s in a failing marriage and drinks too much.\u00a0 Things at home are so rough, Clark&#8217;s moved into the basement of his store.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Late one night the power begins to flicker.\u00a0 Clark sees a light coming from a wall.\u00a0 When he moves over to check it out, he goes through the wall.\u00a0 On the other side Clark discovers a maze of backrooms that appear to go on forever.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Clark decides to investigate, only to discover too late, he&#8217;s not alone.\u00a0 And whatever is down there has bad intentions&#8230; and is searching for him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Backrooms<\/em> began as an anthology of video segments uploaded by Kane Parsons to Youtube.\u00a0 Due to the popularity of the series several movie studios expressed interest in a feature film adaptation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To create <em>Backrooms<\/em> 30,000 square feet of maze were built.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With <em>Backrooms<\/em> release, Kane Parsons became the youngest person to direct a film to open at #1 at the box office.\u00a0 He was just 20 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Backrooms reminds me of an extended episode of <em>The Twilight Zone<\/em>.\u00a0 I just wish <em>Backrooms<\/em> had a stronger ending.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><i>Backrooms <\/i>(2026)<\/strong> rates 3 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z102326review_backrooms2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"273\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Backrooms (2026) Director: Kane Parsons Screenplay: \u00a0Will Soodik; 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