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BACKROOMS

2026 US HMDB
mayo 27, 2026

Una puerta extraña aparece en el sótano de una sala de exposición de muebles.

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Produccion: Shawn Levy (Producer)Dan Cohen (Producer)Judson Scott (Executive Producer)Christopher White (Executive Producer)Dan Levine (Producer)James Wan (Producer)Michael Clear (Producer)Roberto Patino (Producer)Kori Adelson (Producer)Chris Ferguson (Producer)Osgood Perkins (Producer)Jesse Savath (Executive Producer)Jenno Topping (Producer)Peter Chernin (Producer)
Guion: Will Soodik (Writer)
Musica: Edo van Breemen (Original Music Composer)Kane Parsons (Original Music Composer)
Fotografia: Jeremy Cox (Director of Photography)

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Roberto Giacomelli
Habitaciones imposibles hechas de paredes anónimas e iluminadas por luces de neón asépticas, objetos parciales encajados y apilados según una lógica distorsionada, entidades que son la síntesis grotesca de otra cosa. Con Backrooms, el joven cineasta Kane Parsons encuentra una intuición brillante, realizando quizás la representación cinematográfica más inquietante y concreta del concepto de Inteligencia Artificial que hemos visto hasta ahora en el cine. Pero para entender realmente Backrooms hay que partir de internet. De ese gigantesco inconsciente colectivo digital que transformó una imagen aparentemente inocua en una de las creepypastas más célebres de la web. El fenómeno nace de una foto publicada en línea en 2019: una oficina vacía, amarillenta, infinita, acompañada por la idea aterradora de que, "saliendo de la realidad de la manera equivocada", se puede terminar en un espacio liminal sin salida. De ahí surge el mito de las "Backrooms", ambientes suspendidos entre lo familiar y lo ajeno, lugares de transición vaciados de humanidad. El joven Parsons —conocido en línea como Kane Pixels— transforma esa idea en una serie de videos found footage subidos a YouTube a partir de 2022 (aquí pueden encontrar su canal), que se volvieron virales gracias a su capacidad de evocar miedo con muy pocos elementos. El término "creepypasta" designa relatos de horror difundidos en línea de forma viral, modernas leyendas urbanas digitales. Las "Backrooms", en cambio, se basan en el concepto de "espacio liminal": lugares pensados para el paso —pasillos, oficinas, salas de espera— que, vaciados de presencia humana, se vuelven de repente perturbadores. Parsons construyó un imaginario entero sobre esta sensación de malestar abstracto, hasta llegar al salto al cine producido por A24 con la colaboración de la Atomic Monster de James Wan. La película cuenta la historia de Clark, arquitecto frustrado y dueño de un almacén de muebles, arruinado económicamente y tras un matrimonio fallido. En terapia con la psicóloga Mary, una mujer marcada por el trauma de la enfermedad de su madre, Clark descubre que en el sótano de su tienda existe un portal hacia una dimensión imposible: un laberinto infinito de habitaciones vacías, pasillos idénticos y ambientes aparentemente sin lógica. Obsesionado por el descubrimiento, el hombre decide explorar ese espacio cada vez más profundamente, hasta desaparecer misteriosamente. Será Mary quien se ponga en su rastro, comprendiendo que lo que Clark contaba era real e infinitamente más peligroso de lo que podía imaginar. En los videos originales Parsons utilizaba found footage ambientado en los años 90, hablando de grietas dimensionales y del misterioso "Proyecto KV31", dejando mucho a la imaginación. La película, en cambio, intenta dar una interpretación más estratificada y sorprendentemente contemporánea del fenómeno. Las Backrooms se convierten en una extensión del subconsciente de quien las atraviesa: un espacio que asimila recuerdos, miedos, detalles personales y los devuelve en forma alterada. Y es aquí donde la película se vuelve realmente fascinante. Porque las Backrooms parecen funcionar exactamente como una inteligencia artificial. Absorben información, la almacenan, la reelaboran y la devuelven de manera sintética y distorsionada. Como una IA que intenta recrear algo que nunca ha experimentado realmente. Los ambientes resultan entonces "casi correctos", pero equivocados en los detalles; las criaturas parecen imitaciones imperfectas del ser humano y tienen un aspecto que parece una síntesis entre el imaginario de Clive Barker y el de David Lynch; los espacios recuerdan habitaciones reales pero fusionadas sin realmente comprender su sentido. Es el famoso "dibujo del perro hecho por quien nunca ha visto un perro". Si se interpreta en esta clave, Backrooms se convierte en un horror potentísimo sobre la elaboración artificial de la experiencia humana. Y quizás sea precisamente esto lo que lo hace tan perturbador. Desde el punto de vista visual, Parsons demuestra un talento extraordinario. No sorprende que Hollywood se haya fijado en él siendo aún adolescente. La película utiliza en continuidad con los videos el lenguaje analógico de los años 90 creando un cortocircuito fascinante con el tema de la IA: VHS, cámaras sucias, found footage, imágenes degradadas. Todo contribuye a dar la sensación de estar viendo algo que no debería existir. Y cuando se trata de construir tensión, Parsons golpea fuerte. El problema es que Backrooms arrastra su naturaleza originaria de cortometraje viral. Se siente que el concepto nace de fragmentos narrativos y de la acumulación de sugerencias visuales, y cuando debe sostener la duración de un largometraje la película tiende a dispersarse. Toda la componente psicológica y psiquiátrica relacionada con los personajes interpretados por Renate Reinsve y Chiwetel Ejiofor resulta a menudo redundante y ni siquiera realmente útil para el desarrollo narrativo. El trauma vivido por Mary casi no añade nada al corazón del relato, mientras que la evolución de Clark resulta demasiado abrupta para ser realmente creíble. Parsons parece querer dar a los personajes una profundidad "adulta" y de autor, pero el verdadero protagonista de la película sigue siendo el concepto mismo de las Backrooms. Son esos pasillos infinitos, esas habitaciones silenciosas, esos vacíos geométricos los que funcionan realmente. Cuando la película se concentra en eso, se vuelve hipnótica. A pesar de algunas lentitudes y una escritura aún inmadura, Backrooms sigue siendo una obra original, inquieta e sorprendentemente inteligente. Un horror que nace de internet casi como un juego pero logra hablar perfectamente de los miedos contemporáneos, transformando la angustia digital en experiencia cinematográfica. Y quizás sea precisamente esto lo más inquietante: la idea de que las Backrooms ya existen. Solo que hoy las llamamos algoritmos.
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James Berry

James Berry

Given how many endless, empty geometric hallways our main character had to wander through, having Justin Long’s character from Barbarian pop up with a tape measure to calculate the square footage would have genuinely made this a 5-star masterpiece.

Backrooms completely nails the atmosphere in the first half. The grainy, handheld "home video" style shots build an insane amount of tension, and making the entire environment harsh and well-lit instead of hiding in the dark is a brilliant way to capture that pure, unsettling liminal space dread. The sound design is heavy and unrelenting, but the editing kills the momentum in the second half. The audio masterfully amps up your anxiety to a 10, but the actual visual reveals completely flatten out and fail to deliver on the build-up. Still, it's a solid watch on a big screen.

Brent Marchant

4 /10

Anointing a young, first-time big screen director as the new filmmaking messiah of his or her particular genre is a risky undertaking, to be sure. Does the fledgling auteur have what it takes to live up to that auspicious title? Is this an ordination that’s truly warranted? It’s serious business, both for box office tallies and artistically speaking. But does the heir apparent truly possess the skills, talent and vision to achieve success on both fronts? That’s something worth considering in light of the debut feature from writer-director Kane Parsons, the force behind this aspiring smart horror release, which is quickly being praised to the hilt and drawing huge numbers in ticket sales. However, I believe that the coronation of this new voice in the genre is far from deserved and entirely premature. While it’s true that Parsons has a keen eye for the aesthetic, that’s only half the challenge when making a movie in virtually any genre. The other part – being an effective storyteller – needs work (and a lot of it). Based on a YouTube adaptation of his immensely popular internet TV series The Backrooms, the film follows a troubled (and largely unsuccessful) seller of cheap furniture, Clark (Chiwetel Ejiofor), who’s experiencing difficulties in his personal life and professional calling. His failed marriage and inability to make use of his training as an architect have led him to seek counseling from a high-profile therapist, Dr. Mary Kline (Renate Reinsve). His progress takes a drastic turn, though, when he finds a maze of what appears to be a collection of office suites adjacent to his store’s basement – a discovery he makes by somehow walking through one of its walls. The spaces are seemingly devoid of people but haphazardly strewn with various items from his life, including his past. Has he stepped into a corporeal manifestation of his psyche? An alternate reality? Or something else entirely? That’s what he hopes to learn with the unexpected help of his skeptical shrink. And what will that be? The film’s opening half capably sets the scene, creating a legitimately sinister sense of creepiness. However, about midway into the picture, it becomes repetitive and directionless, as if it’s searching for what to do next. That’s where this offering goes off the rails, turning inexplicable, underdeveloped and outright goofy at times. The alleged scariness of this would-be psychological thriller vanishes, turning tedious, silly and more laughable than frightening. And a last-ditch effort to take the narrative in a redemptive direction involving a mysterious scientific research organization only muddies the waters further, doing little to salvage what has already fallen apart. Many have likened this release to a video game with a protagonist trying to solve the puzzle of the story. Others have said that it’s full of nuanced references to the YouTube series, although that would require an intimate knowledge of the source material to fully appreciate it. And others still have postulated a host of other interpretations given the inherently vague nature of the finished product. For my money, even though it starts out well, it turns into an incoherent cinematic mess that fails to hold attention and left me sighing a big “So what?” What became most apparent to me while sitting through this is just how difficult it is to create an engaging smart horror film, a genre I enjoy immensely but has been plagued by more failures than successes, with this one being yet another entry on that list of disappointments. Indeed, don’t be too quick to reach for that crown just yet. If the filmmaker hopes to assume that title, he’s still got his work cut out for him, beginning with an urgent need to get out of his own “Backrooms.”

jamesstocks14

8 /10

New unofficial Christmas movie unlocked. Far more complex than I thought it was going to be, especially considering it was a combination of trauma based creatures and a touch of sci-fi uncertainty. Overall a good watch, and incredibly impressive from such a young creative mind.

JPV852

JPV852

7 /10

Well, that was interesting. This is a well made horror-drama released by A24 that, to my surprise, nabbed $81 million in its opening weekend. Both Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve give solid performances and while a few moments lost my attention, there are few great scenes particularly towards the end. Don't know where the hype came from but good for this (and Obsession) for capturing the mainstream audiences. 3.75/5

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

6 /10

Hmmm. Perhaps I just wasn't in the mood, but I really didn't get what the fuss was about with this. "Clark" (Chiwitel Ejiofor) is a recently divorced man who has big dreams but who is reduced to running (and sleeping in) his cheap and cheerful "Ottoman Empire" furniture emporium in small town America. The electrics in his store start playing up and upon investigation he is intrigued by a glimmer of light that appears to be emenating from beneath the basement wall! Investigating, he discovers that there is a mysterious portal into a construction that has something of an Escher drawing straight from the mind of Lewis Carroll to it. He tries to explain this discovery to his sceptical therapist (Renate Reinsve) but she thinks he's lost the plot so he engages the help of two of his employees "Kat" (Lukita Maxwell) and her boyfriend "Bobby" (Finn Bennett) to film his next exploration - and that's when they discover that all in this new dimension is not so very friendly. Meantime, his shrink "Mary" makes a visit to her patient's showroom only to discover the same portal. Is she going to be daft enough to walk through the wall into the unknown? There is some attempt made at the end to tie up the spurious threads but for the most part I found this to be really quite a dull and unmenacing affair that is hand-held filmed in a style of "Blair Witch" to try and immerse us in it's mystery but that more often than not relies on increasingly hysterical dialogue and a great deal of beige paint to create some sense of menace. Kane Parsons presided over a decent idea for about twenty minutes, but thereafter is all just fizzled out into a repetitious short-story of a film that I felt was overstretched.

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