You'll audibly gasp in the theater, guaranteed

Backrooms is in theaters soon, and now critic reviews are coming in, giving the film a Rotten Tomatoes score that isn't going to set the world on fire.

What evil lurks in the drabbest of interiors? The meme-rooted “Backrooms” is the latest movie to pull its mounting horrors out of liminal spaces.

Chiwetel Ejiofor plays a troubled furniture-store owner in a movie that turns the Internet memes of liminal space into an atmospheric freakout.

Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve star as damaged souls noclipping through a liminal purgatory of never-ending office space

Produced by James Wan and Osgood Perkins, the film adapts director Kane Parsons' own series of shorts set in an extra-dimensional maze of office-like rooms and hallways.

Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, and Mark Duplass star in an adaptation of the hit YouTube series.

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The movie, which hits theaters Friday, is also produced by genre leaders James Wan and Osgood Perkins, and stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve and Mark Duplass.

“Backrooms,” director Kane Parsons’ horror thriller based on his hit YouTube web series, is new in theaters this weekend and is winning over most Rotten Tomatoes critics.

A bold horror tale directed by YouTube creator Kane Parsons, Backrooms was inspired by the popular Portal video games.

“The Backrooms” is based on a viral short film series on YouTube that has amassed more than 220 million views.

“Backrooms,” a psychological horror flick opening this weekend, is part of a wave of breakout films from fledgling directors who honed their instincts on YouTube.

Short answer: Yes. But there's a caveat.

You'll audibly gasp in the theater, guaranteed

The film has years of internet lore backing up its premise

A24’s Backrooms nails the feeling of the Backrooms: drifting into an undetermined limbo that is unnavigable and inhospitable.

Before “Backrooms” made it to the big screen, Kane Parsons was creating a creepy Youtube series of found footage videos of the same name.

Backrooms spawned from a YouTube series, and if you want to familiarize yourself with the world, these are the videos to check out.

The movie’s massive opening weekend haul is the largest ever for an original horror film.