How Backrooms went from a viral 4chan post to an A24 movie starring an Oscar-nominated actor
Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more An upcoming A24 horror film will imagine the fictional world of Backrooms, a niche digital-era urban legend that’s gone mainstream. Backrooms, starring Oscar-nominated 12 Years a Slave actor Chiwetel Ejiofor and Sentimental Value’s Renate Reinsve, is inspired by the imagery and storytelling surrounding “creepypasta” — an internet myth that went viral after it was published to the anonymous forum website 4chan in 2019. Backrooms is a fictional liminal space containing an expanse of eerie, empty rooms that hide hostile creatures (think of the never-ending hallways in Apple’s acclaimed series Severance or the sinister setting in the 1997 horror film Cube). In Backrooms, the liminal space is presented as a yellow, empty, never-ending office found behind the walls of an industrial retail outlet. It follows …
