Meet Kane Parsons, director of A24’s hit horror film Backrooms – who’s only 20 years oldWhat began as a 4Chan post and then a creepypasta led to Parsons’ viral YouTube series – and now, a debut movie cementing his role in HollywoodFollowing the runaway success of YouTuber-turned-director Curry Barker’s horror hit Obsession, another horror film is taking over the internet: A24’s latest release, Backrooms.Directed by 20-year-old Kane Parsons, yet another YouTuber, the psychological thriller stars Chiwetel Ejiofor as Clark, a furniture salesman, who finds himself walking through a portal into an unsettling dimension – the “Backrooms” – of endless bare office rooms with fluorescent lights and eerie hallways.Kane Parsons and Chiwetel Ejiofor on the set of Backrooms. Photo: APThe film’s premise was inspired by Parsons’ viral YouTube miniseries, which was further inspired by a 2019 4Chan post about a fictional empty office space with yellow wallpaper and fluorescent lighting, where one has glitched “out of reality in the wrong areas”.Kane Parsons at the Los Angeles special screening of Backrooms at the Aero Theatre in California last month. Photo: AFPThe film has already broken records, earning US$118 million worldwide and US$81.4 million in the US. Parsons is A24’s youngest director, and also the youngest filmmaker ever with a movie that opened at No 1 in the domestic box office.Here is everything you need to know about 20-year-old director Kane Parsons.How did Kane Parsons get into making films?Parsons was born in June 2005. His father works as a video game programmer while his mother is a therapist, per the Los Angeles Times. Even as a child, Parsons was filming on his parents’ tablets and cellphones. He later learned to use pirated software including Adobe After Effects, and soon became a self-taught expert fluent in the basics of VFX compositing by high school.