“It’s been a very weird time recently,” Backrooms director Kane Parsons tells me over Zoom, from his room in Vancouver. “It’s been very strange—good strange, but it’s all very new.” Only four years ago, Parsons was a teenage YouTuber creating videos based on “the backrooms,” a 4chan meme (born from a single photo of a mysterious yellow-walled room) that spawned its own online mythology about a parallel universe of eerily vacant and seemingly-haunted spaces. Now the not-yet-21-year-old animator, composer, and filmmaker has become the youngest person ever to direct an A24 movie. Backrooms, which opens this Friday, is a feature-length reimagining of the meme, with Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve playing characters who find themselves lost—and possibly not alone— in a liminal world. It’s pure 21st-century internet culture adapted for the screen, doing for Gen-Z perspectives (shaped by COVID and unlimited screen access) what A24’s Spring Breakers did for the Tumblr aesthetic way back when. Advance tracking suggests a box office hit in the making; if Parsons’ film can outperform this past weekend’s box-office champion …