Venture into the endless abyss of Cap’n Clark’s Ottoman Empire next month when director Kane Parsons’ Backrooms makes its streaming debut.
The liminal horror movie will debut exclusively on HBO Max in the U.S. on September 25. The film will debut on HBO linear on September 26 at 8:00 p.m. ET.
Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in Backrooms as the owner of Cap’n Clark’s Ottoman Empire, who discovers a strange doorway in the basement of the furniture showroom. He sets out to explore the mysterious, liminal space, walking headfirst into a creepypasta nightmare.
Renate Reinsve (A Different Man), Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett, and Lukita Maxwell also star in Backrooms.
Will Soodik wrote the screenplay, based on Parsons’ creepypasta-inspired video series, which debuted in 2022 and has amassed over 190 million views to date.
I wrote in my review, “Backrooms is at once complex and sparse, but never repetitive. It might be set in 1990, but it effectively captures modern anxieties and isolation in a way that frequently makes your skin crawl. While the journey ultimately loses steam by its cryptic end, Parsons’ visual representation of the human psyche disturbs like no other.”
If you need even more Backrooms to hold you over until September, watch the 16 minutes of Backrooms – Everything Must Go bonus footage online now.
