Kane Parsons is just 20 years old, and is maybe one of the youngest ever to be at the helm of a major, multi-million-dollar production. Parons was 17 when A24 set him to direct an feature film version of his YouTube series sensation, Backrooms, and now the first teaser for the creepy new paranormal flick has arrived.
Unsurprisingly, the footage takes us into ominous spaces that could lead into another reality, highlighting the basic premise of Backrooms. Parsons’ YouTube series centered on a research facility known as Async, which discovers The Backrooms and attempts to explore it as people suddenly go missing within it. The anthology has scored more than 200M+ viewers, and that’s likely to climb with the release of a feature adaptation.
The synopsis is tantalizingly vague, too: A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.
Parsons has a cast that any veteran filmmaker would kill for: Academy Award nominees Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve, along with Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett, Lukita Maxwell, and Avan Jogia. Shawn Levy and James Wan are among the big-name producers, as well. This thing has a ton of high-powered support.
Backrooms will hit theaters on May 29th.
