Directors Are Mining Internet Horror and Hitting Gold: So What’s Next?
If you walked into a theater recently to catch the surreal, nightmarish “Backrooms,” you weren’t just watching another studio blockbuster. You were watching cinematic history unfold. The box-office hit grew from Kane Parsons’ virtually no-budget YouTube series, inspired by a creepypasta that originated on 4chan in 2019. The film has …By Martin Banks