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New Box Art For ‘Otis’ Blu-ray Release
Arriving on Blu-ray October 7th from Warner Home Video is OTIS, which arrived on DVD this past June. Inside you’ll find a very different box art. The authorities are baffled. A half-a-dozen strikingly beautiful teenage girls have disappeared, only to be discovered a month later — murdered and mutilated almost beyond recognition. When a new victim, 16-year-old high school cheerleader Riley Lawson, finds herself trapped and tortured in a basement prison by the psychopath Otis, she resolves to do WHATEVER she has to in order to stay alive. By chance she escapes and Riley informs her relieved parents and younger brother where she was held. Bypassing the FBI agent assigned to the case, the Lawson’s conspire to take their revenge and kill the madman who kidnapped their daughter…but circumstances begin to spin beyond their control when Otis’s brother arrives on the scene.
Are you ready to go back?
After a record-breaking box office run and an extended cut re-release, A24 and director Kane Parsons’ Backrooms is heading home to Digital.
Backrooms will be available to rent or buy this Tuesday, July 14.
In the film, 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) also stars in Backrooms.
Will Soodik wrote the screenplay.
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.”
YouTube prodigy Kane Parsons makes his feature directorial debut based on his creepypasta-inspired video series, which debuted in 2022 and has amassed over 190 million views to date.