The ‘Backrooms’ YouTube Videos To Watch Before Or After Seeing It
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Gaming The ‘Backrooms’ You Tube Videos To Watch Before Or After Seeing It By Paul Tassi,
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. News and opinion about video games, television, movies and the internet.Follow Author May 30, 2026, 08:51am EDT--:-- / --:--This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.Backrooms A24Even if you’re relatively uninitiated to the new horror release, Backrooms, which is set to make an astonishing amount of money this weekend, you have probably at least heard that the genesis of the film is a series of YouTube videos. Those were made by Kane Parsons, who is now 20 and one of the youngest directors ever to make a film earning this much.
There are arguments for knowing nothing about Backrooms going in. That may make the weirdness even more pronounced, though you may think you’re missing something by not being familiar with the original work. While I do think it is not necessary to watch the series before the movie, if you do want to, there’s no real downside. And if you want to focus on the core of the experience, there are some specific videos, out of the 22 in total, that you may want to check out rather than just a random assortment or trying to get through literally all of them. Or, you’ve already seen the movie and you want more of this world, so you can watch these after the fact, your call.