Inside the liminal space nightmare.

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

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

With his film debut, Backrooms, the YouTuber Kane Parsons reimagines mundane spaces as hallucinatory nightmares.

Debut from 20-year-old director examines memory, reality and fear after Chiwetel Ejiofor accesses an infinite series of hidden rooms that all feel creepily askew

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

‘Backrooms’ shows the descent of Clark (Chiwetel Ejiofor) into the nightmarish otherworld— but what does the ending mean?

Buzzy new thriller Backrooms takes us on an unknowable journey through liminal spaces, the latest film to turn a building into a horror villain

You'll audibly gasp in the theater, guaranteed

Director Kane Parsons explains the lore of 'Backrooms' for people who aren't yet initiated, and talks about future installments.

The film has years of internet lore backing up its premise

Inside the liminal space nightmare.