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A24 Found the Backrooms. The Internet Built Them.

The lesson is what happens when a world is built by the internet before anyone owns the movie.

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Adam Cunningham
Jun 15, 2026
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By last Monday morning, Hollywood had discovered Kane Parsons. Understandable. A teenager uploads a nine-minute found-footage horror short to YouTube in January 2022. Four years later, A24 releases the feature version.

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