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: AP
The 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: AFP
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.
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