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Mark Duplass is defending Backrooms director Kane Parsons in light of social media speculation about the 20-year-old filmmaker and YouTuber’s role on the forthcoming horror movie.
Hitting theaters Friday from A24, Backrooms stars Duplass alongside Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Finn Bennett and Lukita Maxwell in the film about a therapist tracking down a missing patient in a bizarre dimension of liminal space. Parsons becomes the studio’s youngest feature director with the project that adapts the YouTube series that he began uploading as a teen in early 2022 and centered on an infinite maze of rooms.
Given that the Backrooms movie counts such established filmmakers as James Wan, Shawn Levy and Osgood Perkins among its producing team, social media users have suggested theories questioning whether Parsons was the primary director on the feature. Such posts have also suggested similar claims about Curry Barker, the 26-year-old filmmaker who helmed Focus Features’ recent breakout horror hit Obsession.
After an X user posted that “we all know Kane Parsons absolutely didn’t direct this movie,” Duplass responded to dismiss the accusation about his Backrooms director.
